Hindustan
Times ( 30 Sept 2016 ) carries following news report :
Facebook,
Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft on one AI platform
In a major boost to artificial intelligence (AI) research,
five top-notch tech
companies -- Facebook, Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft --
have joined
hands to announce a historic partnership on AI and machine
learning.
It means that these
companies will discuss advancements and conduct research
in AI and how to
develop best products and services powered by machine
learning, Tech Crunch
reported on Thursday.
Initial financial help
will come from these companies and as other stakeholders
join the group, the
finances are expected to increase.
“We want to involve
people impacted by AI as well,” Mustafa Suleyman, co-
founder and head of
applied AI at DeepMind, a subsidiary of Alphabet (parent
company of Google),
was quoted as saying.
According to the report,
the organisational structure has been designed to allow
non-corporate groups to
have equal leadership side-by-side with large tech
companies.
“The
power of AI is in the enterprise sector. For society at-large to get the
benefits of AI, we first have to trust it,” Francesca Rossi, AI ethics
researcher at
IBM Research, told Tech Crunch.
AI-powered bots will
become the next interface, shaping our interactions with
the applications and
devices we rely on and Microsoft’s latest solutions are set
to change the way
HP interacts with its customers and partners, Microsoft’s
Indian-born Microsoft
CEO Satya Nadella said recently.
At Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference in August,
Nadella had said that AI-
powered chatbots will “fundamentally revolutionise how
computing is
experienced by everybody.”
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By " burying
" this news on page 17 , in 10 CC ( column centimeter ), it was
as if the
HT Editor was saying :
" Ignore this - it is of little consequence !
"
Now , fast
forward to year 2026
In HT's office
, you won't find ,
* Watchman / Receptionist / Reporters / Journalists / Composers / Graphic
Designers / Editors / Operators etc
All will be replaced by AI Robots , embedded into
Computers / Cameras /
Printing Machines / Delivery Drones !
And those AI Robots would select / print news such
as this , in large , bold
headlines on the Front Page !
I only hope ,
AI of 2026 remains devoid of human frailties of jealousy / anger
/ revenge !
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30 Sept
2016
www.hemenparekh.in
