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LIFE 3.0
MEET CLUBHOUSE ARE YOU JUST “DOING AGILE” OR “BEING AGILE”
ADITI GUPTA IN CONVERSATION WITH ADITI GUPTA, FOUNDER OF MENSTRUPEDIA
THE FUTURE OF ROBOT AND WORK
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Artificial Intelligence –Will It Outpace Humans? -Barkha Sheth Artificial Intelligence (AI) - A breakthrough that can augment and transform every walk of life or the harbinger of a Matrix styled dystopian future?
Meet Clubhouse -Anjali Prabhanjanan The Clubhouse is a new social media app that’s less than a year old and making big waves. Having valued at USD 1 billion,
Are you just ‘Doing Agile’ or ‘Being Agile’ -Akanksha Shetti The only change that will be bought by Agile Adoption is in the way the team works by implementing Agile practices, processes, values, and principles.
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The Face Behind AI -Apurva Minchekar The introduction of the gig working model has allowed workers to have complete control over the project and the flexibility to work. Gig working models encourage freelancers to perform their assigned tasks from anywhere in the world.
Book Review: Life 3.0 -Punam Majhi Intelligent beings always rule over the less intelligent species. So, will it affect us when the machines become smarter by acquiring superintelligence? Will the intelligence explosion be the beginning of our doom or the end of human suffering?
Seven Facts Nobody Told You About Industry 4.0 -Vibha Soni Advanced technologies are changing the working model in every business. Manufacturing is the root process of interaction. And, the arrival of Industry 4.0 is assisting companies in multiple ways.
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Interview with Aditi Gupta What is an AI Factory? -Anupriya Asthana
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Will Artificial Intelligence Be an Emotional Catastrophe? - Suman Bambhniya
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Chatbots: A Journey towards Embracing Conversational AI -Akanksha Shetti
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The Future of Robots and Work -Apurva Minchekar
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As more and more technologies become prevalent, their influence becomes more widespread. Things that we never deemed necessary all of a sudden become “technologically advanced.” We are already witnessing the arrival of the fourth industrial revolution. You are unaware of many myths and facts regarding Industry 4.0; we bring you the insights of seven such facts that you have not heard before. With Industry 4.0, Artificial Intelligence, Agility, IoT, Machine Learning is blooming. In this issue, we have focused on different domains of Artificial Intelligence. You would read out the infrastructure of an AI factory, what companies are already using AI factories.
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We also put in a discussion if AI would be an emotional catastrophe or if it will outpace humans. As you would read further along, we would investigate together if robots are going to snatch your job from you or just co-exist with you, making your life and work simpler than ever before? Aditi Gupta talks about her aspiration to create a future where menstruation is not a taboo but a welcoming change in a girl’s life. In her interview, she shares the fascinating story of Menstrupedia, a comic that has taken the internet by storm and made it cool to talk about menstruation. Here is your edition. Do read it, enjoy it, and nourish in the knowledge. Happy reading! Thank you
Srikant Rawat COO, Techfastly
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AI has been more transformative than anything we have ever seen, at times challenging what it means to be human.
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) - A breakthrough that can augment and transform every walk of life or the harbinger of a Matrix styled dystopian future? In reality, AI is still in its infancy. It is evolving only because we are continually seeking ways to simplify our existence. In that case, could we go too far? Could AI, at any point, become smarter than us or is its existence solely dependant on the cognitive abilities and native intelligence of humans? A central tenet of the 4th Industrial revolution, AI has been more transformative than anything we have ever seen, at times challenging what it means to be human. From consumer tech to enterprisegrade solutions, artificial intelligence is firmly ingrained in our innovations. It might be easier to collate a list of the part of modern society that is yet untouched by AI than the other way round. AI is influencing every facet of our daily lives, helping improve efficiencies, and augmenting human capabilities.
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The Science Behind Artificial Intelligence
While artificial intelligence has been popularised by software’s like Siri and Google Duplex, it has been in the works since the 1950s. The human brain has been the primary inspiration for AI researchers, with the quest for replicating cognitive abilities of the brain, being the most elusive of the goals.
networks to automatically model and find patterns in data to predict an outcome. Given the amount of data we generate from the touchpoints in our daily life, it is little wonder the use of artificial intelligence has exploded in recent times.
As it stands, machines are already observing, analyzing, and learning from data and mistakes just like humans can. Instead of being programmed in what to think, AI uses statistics, mathematical algorithms, and artificial neural 7