Today 6-7 tech could power their own industrial revolutions

In the keynote on “Navigating the Tech-Driven Landscape: Thriving in the Modern World”, futurist Bernard Marr said that we were in for a decade of hyper innovation enhancing and interacting with each other. This is the first time when 6-7 technologies could power their own industrial revolutions. But the base will be AI.

Shanker Trivedi, Senior Vice President, Enterprise Business, Nvidia, while speaking on the current GenAI revolution, pointed to Nvidia’s role in it. In 2012, Alex Krizhevsky won the ImageNet computer image recognition competition by a huge margin powered by Nvidia. In the next year’s competition, everyone was using Nvidia.

In 2016, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang hand delivered the first AI supercomputer to Elon Musk for OpenAI. Years of work on that finally led to ChatGPT. This was in a fireside chat: In-Conversation: AI Pioneers: India's Impact - 'Bold Moves, Bold Outcomes’.

Srikanth Velamakanni, Co-founder and Group CEO of Fractal Analytics said that he had never been this excited about technology since the 1980s and had never seen governments move so fast. He asked Jean-Philippe Courtois, Executive Vice President, Microsoft, what he would do if he was Prime Minister of India for a day. Among other things Jean-Philippe said that the government had to be quick and flexible, ensure safeguards but see that you don’t get too precise early on. This was during a fireside chat titled: Boldly Leading the AI Revolution.

In the discussion “Crafting the Foundation: Visionaries Shaping India's AI Infrastructure” there was talk of the BharatGPT group, which has come out with LLMs (large language models) in Indian regional languages.

Sunil Gupta, Co-founder, MD & CEO, Yotta Data Services, said they were bringing down costs for such activities. While specialized chips for such operations could cost $33,000 a piece, they had brought down the costs to $2 per GPU hour for those willing to get into the game.

In the keynote: Human-Centric AI Governance: Balancing Innovation and Regulation, Maria Axente, Head of AI Public Policy and Ethics, PwC UK, talked of things like discrimination and toxicity along with misinformation and accuracy. Maria talked of the importance of building a humancentric AI designed by the people, for the people and with the people.

K Krithivasan, CEO & MD of TCS made it very clear that WFO (Work From Office) was the way forward.

Read more: No WFH, no Hybrid, let’s get to WFO!

 He said this in a fireside chat titled “Embracing Change Strategies Amidst Tech Volatility”.