Understanding Gen AI
The algorithm by which Generative AI programs like ChatGPT generate text is extremely difficult to understand, for anyone. If you really want to understand it, it will take a week or two of dedicated effort. Here are the best available…
Air Pollution in New Delhi
New Delhi is the most polluted city in the world. It is unclear that any of the measures being undertaken by the government to tackle the sources of air pollution in the city in winter, when the pollution is at…
Human Machine Integration and the Meta AI Glasses
Meta’s new Ray-Ban AI glasses are the next step in Human Machine Integration. I’ve read about them, and am planning to try them out once they become cheaper and better. The most telling fact about them is that they have…
The Age of Spiritual Machines
Ray Kurzweil, in his book The Age of Spiritual Machines published in the year 2000, made the astonishing prediction that by approximately the year 2020, computers would exceed human intelligence. Fast forward to 2025, and we have ChatGPT 5. While…
My Current Favorite Unsolved Problem in Computer Science
My current favorite unsolved problem in Computer Science is … Search. Google has not solved search. OpenAI is getting better. There are billions of pages on the web, and I need a way for the web to answer the search…