Time magazine’s 1st-ever top 100 AI list honours Indian talent
New York, Sep 8: Several Indians and Indian-origin techies have made it to Time magazine’s inaugural ‘TIME100 AI List’, highlighting the 100 most influential people in artificial intelligence (AI).
The youngest individual recognised in the list is 18-year-old Indian-American Sneha Revanur, who recently met with the Joe Biden Administration as part of her work leading Encode Justice, a youth-led movement organizing for ethical AI. Revanur is often called the “Greta Thunberg of AI”.
Neal Khosla, who co-founded telehealth startup Curai Health in 2017, is also on the list.
Romesh and Sunil Wadhwani, Co-Founders of Wadhwani AI, have also been named on the list.
Mumbai-based Wadhwani AI is a non-profit organisation with a mission to develop and deploy AI solutions for social good, including health care, education and agriculture.
Tushita Gupta is the Chief Technology Officer of Refiberd, a US-based company.
as a celebration of India-UK cultural ties.
The aim is to revolutionise textile recycling by using AI to identify the composition of various textile items.
Another Indian on the coveted list is Kalika Bali, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research India. She has spent several years dedicated to breaking language barriers in technology.
The 2023 TIME100 AI issue features a worldwide cover with illustrations by Neil Jamieson for TIME, featuring 28 list-makers including Sam Altman of OpenAI, Dario and Daniela Amodei of Anthropic, Demis Hassabis of Google DeepMind, and more from the new list.
The aim is to revolutionise textile recycling by using AI to identify the composition of various textile items.
Another Indian on the coveted list is Kalika Bali, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research India. She has spent several years dedicated to breaking language barriers in technology.
The 2023 TIME100 AI issue features a worldwide cover with illustrations by Neil Jamieson for TIME, featuring 28 list-makers including Sam Altman of OpenAI, Dario and Daniela Amodei of Anthropic, Demis Hassabis of Google DeepMind, and more from the new list.
The list features 41 women and nonbinary individuals, including CEO and co-founder of Humane Intelligence Rumman Chowdhury; cognitive scientist Abeba Birhane; COO of Google DeepMind Lila Ibrahim; Stanford professor Fei-Fei Li; artist Linda Dounia Rebeiz, artist Kelly McKernan and more. (IANS)
Prose not as capable of being truthful as poetry: Javed Akhtar
London, Sep 9: Award-winning Indian poet and lyricist Javed Akhtar has reflected upon the importance of poetry at an event celebrating the India-UK arts and educational relationship in London.
The 78-year-old poet was in London to receive an honorary doctorate from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.
Addressing a gathering at the House of Commons complex on Friday evening, Akhtar said he was “humbled” at being conferred Doctor of Literature degree, which came as a complete surprise.
Against the backdrop of this recognition for his creative endeavours as a distinguished writer, he was asked if poetry has a place at a time dominated by scientific and technological pursuits.
“Oh yes, poetry has a place; I think prose is not as capable of being truthful as poetry is,” said Akhtar.
“Right from the beginning, Urdu poets were seriously against fundamentalism, religiosity, narrow thinking, regressive thoughts and so on. I wonder if they could say all this in prose. So, poetry somewhere gives you a little more elbow room to be honest,” he said.
The celebrated scriptwriter and social activist addressed a range of topics at the diaspora interaction, including the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the field of art. “The fact is that inventions like AI that are breathing down the neck require new decorum. I suppose people are at the moment either happy or worried, but let’s give ourselves a little time and we will develop certain discipline, codes and laws to see to it that AI is for us, we are not for AI,” he said.
At the event organised by the National Indian Students and Alumni Union (NISAU) UK and Indian-origin Opposition Labour Party MPs Virendra Sharma and Seema Malhotra, Akhtar was joined by actor wife Shabana Azmi who was asked about the role played by the arts as a bridge between India and the UK.
“There is a confidence coming into Indian art. As the world shrinks and becomes a global village, we have to accept that cultures have to be understood within their own paradigms. They cannot be imposed by the West on the East and measured by those yardsticks,” said Azmi.
“So, given this new confidence, I think we are able to make films that tell our stories in the way we tell stories and what we are receiving from Britain is that people are willing to listen to our voice because we are no longer ashamed of it. In a very big way, we are contributing to what are good relations between the UK and India,” she said. Besides Indian students in the UK, academics, artists and filmmakers including Gurinder Chadha and Shekhar Kapur came together for the event as a celebration of India-UK cultural ties. (PTI)