ET Explainer: Decoding the hype over building an AI brain smarter than humansWhile some, like OpenAI, are striving for Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), a new frontier in AI is generating debate: Artificial Supe...
'Max Payne' star James McCaffrey passes away at 65Besides his wife, McCaffrey is survived by his daughter, Tiernan McCaffrey, and other family members.
The fight over a 'dangerous' ideology shaping AI debateElon Musk and OpenAI's Sam Altman have signed open letters warning that AI could make humanity extinct -- though they stand to benefit by a...
Will AI really destroy humanity?Paperclips of doom - Most disaster scenarios start in the same place: machines will outstrip human capacities, escape human control and ref...
ChatGPT finds a new admirer, Bill Gates in awe of chatbot's empathetic ability & intelligence quotientThe billionaire wants to use AI to transform philanthropy, health & education.
How India is carving out a niche for itself in the field of Artificial IntelligenceA string of private, government and non-profit initiatives are coming together to carve out a niche for India in Artificial Intelligence.
The formative books that shaped Elon Musk's lifeIn the 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,' Musk feels the book taught him 'if you can properly phrase the question, then the answer is the ...
Gender bias or not there's no stopping for India's female startup brigadePriyanka Gill and Namrata Bostrom were living in London when they started noticing that there was no digital content for young women in Ind...
IDG, Kalaari, 500 Startups invest Rs 13 crore in POPxoGill, who used to invest in early stage startups, is married to London-based trader Raj Gill. The two co-founders continue to hold majority...
Why women entrepreneurs dominate Google India head Rajan Anandan's portfolio in 2014Women account for 6 of 10 startup investments made by Anandan this year. Merit and grit, not affirmative action, is behind this gender outc...
What's in a name?The fact that our reality — the universe that we take for granted — may be just a computer simulation is not a new idea.
Meaning of MayaAccording to an argument put forward by Swedish philosopher Nick Bostrom in his 2003 paper Are You Living in a Computer Simulation, we are ...