Author: Satyen K Bordoloi

It is said AI in filmmaking will change cinema. Satyen K. Bordoloi argues that the opposite is also true as he outlines the amazing tools that deals like this could unleash into the world. In the 2002 film Awara Paagal Deewana, Akshay Kumar copies the lobby fight sequence from The Matrix. It was achieved by flying in the team that created the original to Mumbai. Naturally, it cost a bomb. Today, AI can achieve better quality at a fraction of the cost. A deal to make something like this possible, transforming both AI and filmmaking, was signed between Lionsgate and…

Amazon, the tech titan that reshaped retail, is late to the AI party. Satyen K. Bordoloi delves into why a key pioneer of our tech-driven lives took its time on AI and chatbots, and wonders if it can catch up. In a move that has surprised the tech world, Amazon, the e-commerce giant that revolutionized retail and reshaped how we interact with tech for over a quarter century, unveiled its own AI-powered shopping assistant. Called ‘Rufus’, you’ll find it on the extreme right bottom corner of your Amazon app. The astonishment was because this chatbot, still in its beta and…

That barely any content we consume is original, used to be a metaphysical and artistic angst, but with GenAI content in the mix for 2 years, researchers warn of a threat to AI itself, writes Satyen K. Bordoloi. Few lines in literature have generated as much debate about their meaning as writer Chuck Palahniuk’s in Fight Club: ‘…everything is a copy of a copy of a copy.’ The protagonist says it, as he walks through life as a raging insomniac, unable to focus. The Hollywood film made the line and the book’s philosophy famous, but I don’t think anyone has…

Women’s tears have been a subject of ridicule for alpha males, but turns out it is exactly for those brutes that tears evolved, writes Satyen K. Bordoloi. At an all-women’s filmmaker panel in the 2010 Mumbai Film Festival, filmmaker Zoya Akhtar was unapologetic about her mood swings during her periods, saying: “On my sets I will cry if I want to. I will be in all my hormonal glory. As a man, you have chosen to be part of my set, so you handle it, boy.” Back then, before the full manifestation of women’s power, we saw in the second…

Quantum computing, though in its infancy, threatens to change everything. Leading the research is a recent quantum communications experiment in New York that could change the world in our lifetimes, opines Satyen K. Bordoloi. In the “Three-Body Problem” trilogy by sci-fi writer Liu Cixin, an alien species called Trisolarans have unlocked the secrets of quantum physics. As they journey to colonise us on an armada of ships to reach Earth 400 years later, they send two quantum photons packed in another dimension to keep Earth in check. These quantum particles create a near-instantaneous communication bridge between them and Earth, trillions…

AIoT has been around for a decade, but few know how transformative it can be to your business and life, writes Satyen K. Bordoloi. The world is overflowing with information. From your heartbeat to the movement of clouds and stock markets, we have data about everything but intelligence about nothing. Adding to this flood is the Internet of Things (IoT); devices with sensors that create more data, overwhelming our minds. What if we could address this problem by adding a layer that analyses all the data to make sense of it and provide useful insights that we can action? This…

Susan Wojcicki slipped away into the night, a quiet departure for a woman who gave millions a voice through YouTube. As Satyen K. Bordoloi pieces together her extraordinary life, he’s struck by the stark contrast between her public legacy and her private existence. In September 1998, a newlywed Susan Wojcicki, working at Intel, crossed paths with two Stanford PhD students. A shared passion for technology, ignited by her Stanford upbringing, created an instant connection. The students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, were searching for a workspace to nurture their nascent search engine. Struggling to make ends meet in their newly…

The discovery of an ancient artefact in Africa, throws into the bin how old we thought we were, opening the door to some exciting new ideas about our species writes Satyen K. Bordoloi. “Our whole universe was in a hot, dense stateThen nearly fourteen billion years ago expansion started, waitThe earth began to cool, the autotrophs began to droolNeanderthals developed toolsWe built a wall (we built the pyramids)Math, science, history, unraveling the mysteriesThat all started with the big bang (bang)” This intro song to the series The Big Bang Theory is one of the briefest explanations of our origins. But…

With Strawberry, OpenAI aims to complete their GenAI ‘Quadrinity,’ writes Satyen K. Bordoloi as he outlines what it could mean for Artificial Intelligence specifically, and the world generally. For AI doomsayers of the Terminator and Matrix variety, the very combination of the words Artificial and Intelligence signifies a level of logic and reasoning ability found only in humans. Those who either code AI or study it beyond anthropomorphic fears know that even when AI manages to do a surprising quantity of tasks, basic tasks that even a toddler can do elude it. Training AI to achieve human-level reasoning is thus…

Companies are realizing that the cost of cloud computing could outweigh the benefits, leading many to migrate to localized servers, finds Satyen K. Bordoloi. Faced with a financial crunch, Elon Musk did what only he could: : pulled the plug on a backup cloud server of Twitter in Sacramento to save $100 million. Since then, I’ve noticed my Twitter getting glitchy, but the savings it has brought about in the company justify it for Musk. Something not entirely different is happening across the world when it comes to cloud computing. As per this BBC report, US-based 37signals, which has millions…