New Delhi, April 4 -- It was sometime in 1995 when my family decided to take away my beautiful pistachio-green Hermes butter-smooth typewriter and replace it with a computer. I stared at the Pentium-s... Read More
New Delhi, March 28 -- Can you imagine what it would be like to lose all your emails? Long-ago archived important mail, bank statements, documents, unread messages and everything in between? I feel I ... Read More
New Delhi, March 21 -- The other day, ChatGPT quite baffled me by commanding me to stop eating batteries and definitely not put one in the microwave again. It sent a page of instructions on how to rem... Read More
New Delhi, March 14 -- You've probably been through that embarrassing scenario in which you give a child a gift and the brat grabs it from your hands and makes off with it in delight. Charming. But th... Read More
New Delhi, March 7 -- If you live with AI chatbots long enough, you'll begin to notice their relentlessly repetitive use of certain words. For ChatGPT, it's definitely 'Quiet'. ChatGPT loves to pair t... Read More
New Delhi, Feb. 28 -- Like many frequent users of chat assistants, I've found my equation with them. We've got to know each other. They seem to have figured out the way I work, and though they can be ... Read More
New Delhi, Feb. 21 -- There was a time when we took stock of technological growth based on Moore's Law, named after Intel co-founder Gordon Moore. It suggested that computing power doubled roughly eve... Read More
New Delhi, Feb. 14 -- Eight days. That's about all it took for Moltbook to go from taking over the internet to crashing. Moltbook is the social network that was supposed to be for AI of AI and by AI... Read More
New Delhi, Feb. 7 -- For all the PhD-level intelligence they're supposed to have, our AI assistants can be maddeningly bad at fulfilling requests smoothly. The productive time lost in trying to figure... Read More
New Delhi, Jan. 31 -- Sometimes I can't help myself. I do a bit of unwise shopping and end up showing ChatGPT a new saree I bought. I dare not show it to anyone else and be asked whether I really, rea... Read More