With quality of its economic numbers being a pressing issue for India, statistics ministry is ramping up use of AI for collecting & analysing data to better monitor the economy.
Governments are starting to explore the potential of AI and can work with policy-makers, public servants and data scientists to fully realise its benefits.
Educational technology, or edtech, entered public consciousness as Covid-19 moved learners out of the classroom and into the virtual world of remote education.
The scientific basis behind the idea — to use AI to read human expressions & behaviours — is unsound and has proven to have wide margins of error that can do more harm than help.
In his speech on the 60th foundation day of the DRDO, Chairman Reddy emphasised on the need for futuristic technologies to make India self-reliant in the defence sector.
It’s easy for this kind of apprehension to lead to a sort of neo-Luddism in which technology is viewed as the enemy. The new technology could actually help reduce inequality.
The Romans’ version of stoicism is rapidly picking popularity on Instagram — Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, and Seneca are some names that get thrown at you when you fire up your screen.
Germany’s erstwhile Christian Democratic Union govt, led by Angela Merkel, prevented sale of small arms to police forces in states they perceived had ‘bad human rights record’.
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
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