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E-governance

Published in 2001 Lately it seems that India is waking up to the concept of e-governance. The irony is that our government has yet to understand what governance is and they are already moving forward with automating whatever we have in the name of governance. When President Clinton visited India, he proudly proclaimed that India��� Read More »

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Reboot the OS

Published in 2000 The penguin has attacked! If you have been reading the war of OSes it seems that Linux is gainingground against Microsoft in the server space. Now, with ‘Lindows’, which is a Windows UI plastered onLinux, the penguin is eyeing desktop users. While the various open-source and free-software groupsmay be busy writing obituaries��� Read More »

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GeT on web

Published in 1999 Everyone can see the fire burning, expertise lies in smelling the smoke – a quote that all of us has heard more than once in our lives. Translate that into biz world and it sounds similar to ��� ���I should have bought Yahoo stock in 1996��� vs. ���I bought Yahoo stock in��� Read More »

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For your eyes only ��� The art of Personalization

Published in 1999 The other day when I visited Amazon to order additional books, I was happy to see that I was welcomed by name and the page listed some recommendations based on my previous purchases. So, I thought of browsing the list of recommended books but to my disappointment I already had all of��� Read More »

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New economy, new rules

Published in 1999 That is what everyone hears these days, mostly from the executive staff of dotcoms, that the ���old��� rules of business no longer apply. It is being said that the e-commerce and e-business is so different from bricks & mortar business that we cannot measure, be it stock price or other indicators, with��� Read More »

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The case against AI alignment

I was listening to the recent Lex Fridman���s podcast episode with Dario Amodei and the Anthropic team on the topic of AGI, AI and (of course) the future of humanity. It appears to me that the creators of AI feel obligated to talk about the risks of AI going berserk and killing us all and��� Read More »

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Paradigm shift… without a clutch

One sure sign that the hype of any technology is ebbing is when you see the media coverage and articles that are insightful, pragmatic, less hyperbolic and are not recycled content. In recent months, I have observed such green shoots related to AI. My gut instinct is that most of the enterprise have conducted one… Read More »

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theLie Llama

���The journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step,��� said Lao Tzu. It took me almost a decade from the time I had the idea of ���theLie Llama��� and it took my co-host, Gunjan, and I about six months of deliberations to take the first step. Then it took us about four months��� Read More »

Will AI take your job?

It was interesting to see that the idea I had proposed in my blog on moral imperatives of AI about reskilling workers displaced by AI showed up in the policy discussions of India���s finance minister. In my most recent keynote for PMI Chapter of Gujarat, India, the same question came up again ��� will my��� Read More »

(AI) Winter is coming…

Obituaries of Generative AI or artificial intelligence in general have started trickling in across the media. This article in Fast Company predicts the onset of AI winter for the reasons that are typical in the early phase of any technology transition. Those of us who saw the boom-and-bust or hype-and-disillusionment cycle of the Internet would��� Read More »