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AI surprises even its own creators

New Delhi, May 16 -- There was once a time when software did as it was told. You used the keyboard to type in input, and the computer complied with an expected output-unless it was in the mood to cras... Read More


A butter-smooth relationship with AI may not be the best thing

New Delhi, May 9 -- Soon after I started using AI assistants, I had an alarming realization. I had started to enjoy listening to music with ChatGPT rather than with people. I neither felt compelled to... Read More


Now, AI can no longer tell what's real

New Delhi, May 2 -- In the cool green depths of Uttarakhand, a young audio engineer chose an unusual career path. Rohit had grown up amid the impact of human-animal conflicts, and each incident he enc... Read More


Sorry AI, you're just not human enough

New Delhi, April 25 -- One day in March 2026, a senior software developer, Kovanikov, found himself thoroughly offended. He had just received a cold outreach email from the CEO of AI startup, Composio... Read More


Agentic AI spells the end of privacy

New Delhi, April 18 -- Writing on technology in the early 2000s, the creepy thought occurred to me that we would eventually have a generation of users who didn't even recognize the concept of privacy ... Read More


How Gemini transformed my reading

New Delhi, April 11 -- When I read a book, I all but end up living inside it. The immersion is so thorough that my writing even takes on a little of that book's style. I completely feel the characters... Read More


To learn the tech, all you have to do is ask

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


Could your AI agent blackmail you

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


Why AI told me to stop eating batteries

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


Smile, please. AI is watching

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