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  • How Generative AI as a “writing aid” will transform businesses

    How Generative AI as a “writing aid” will transform businesses

    Introducing AnswerChatAI — an OpenAI powered app that finds “needles in information haystacks” including multilingual Q&A, summarization…
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    Skanda Vivek
    Feb 22, 2023
    What are the limits of ChatGPT and current natural language processing?

    What are the limits of ChatGPT and current natural language processing?

    Taking inspiration from the century old Gödel’s completeness theorem to define the limits of natural language processing and peer into what…
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    Skanda Vivek
    Dec 23, 2022
    Would you trust an algorithm that is 65% accurate in handing out prison sentences?

    Would you trust an algorithm that is 65% accurate in handing out prison sentences?

    I’m pretty sure you would not — yet, the flawed COMPAS risk score is being used all the time by U.S. courts.
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    Skanda Vivek
    Dec 11, 2022
    What’s the most important asset for tech companies? Hint: it’s not the codebase

    What’s the most important asset for tech companies? Hint: it’s not the codebase

    Google’s original codebase would likely be worthless today — François Chollet
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    Skanda Vivek
    Nov 23, 2022
    How I Created A Kids Kindle Book Illustrated by AI

    How I Created A Kids Kindle Book Illustrated by AI

    I recreated the Classic kids story “Going on a Bear Hunt” with illustrations completely generated by Stable Diffusion— and now you can too!
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    Skanda Vivek
    Nov 11, 2022
    What is intelligence, resurrecting Steve Jobs, and AI that can reason

    What is intelligence, resurrecting Steve Jobs, and AI that can reason

    Intelligence is the extent to which actions are likely to achieve objectives. Hallmarks of intelligence like learning, solving problems…
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    Skanda Vivek
    Nov 2, 2022
    Natural Language Processing — What’s the big deal?

    Natural Language Processing — What’s the big deal?

    Grammar and Machines
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    Skanda Vivek
    Oct 24, 2022
    Sankarabharnam — The Carnatic equivalent of the major scale

    Sankarabharnam — The Carnatic equivalent of the major scale

    A spectrogram analysis of the Carnatic version of the C Major scale
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    Skanda Vivek
    Aug 2, 2022
    Raga Bhairavi in Carnatic Music

    Raga Bhairavi in Carnatic Music

    A deep mathematical and musical exploration into the Indian Carnatic Music Raga Bhairavi that is older than 1,500 years. I give key…
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    Skanda Vivek
    Jul 13, 2022
    How Important Is Cyber-Physical Security In Drones?

    How Important Is Cyber-Physical Security In Drones?

    With Amazon announcing drone super-highways, it becomes all the more important to consider cyber-physical security in drones
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    Skanda Vivek
    Feb 15, 2022
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