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Principal Engineer at Intel Corporation

This is continuation from my recent post about AI adoptions in various fields. This is a very beginning of the extremely important and evolving discussion addressing the research question below. ‘Is AI a Hype and have we reached the inflection point in it’s adoption globally?’ Having travelling almost half of the world in past few weeks, I had opportunity to meet many experts, entrepreneurs, CEOs of AI startups and academicians. My most memorable experience was meeting 74 years heart surgeon in a train travelling through some parts of north India in beautiful monsoon season. I was surprised when he started talking me about complexities in prediction using convulution neural network in imaging. He was well equipped with all latest AI innovations in the field of medicine. We had a good talk before jumped to question about how he sees AI use in his daily life. Answer was no surprise, he mentioned openly that use of AI is limited and trust is a most fundamental issue. He uses AI applications for basic ‘non risky’ analysis ( although algorithms are well trained achieveing beyond 98% accuracy) but he uses his own experience from past 50 years for analysis and treatments for his patients. He raised a very important question that how his 50 years in experience in medicine is translated to a dataset or LLM or SLM without his knowledge. I had no good answer apart from playing with terms like hypothesis, generalisation etc etc. Generative AI is field open to anyone and fake data is hitting us in our daily lives. I also had a chance to meet many old school and college friends who are leading AI startups and they had different opinion about AI achievements and sounded much more optimistic. They do see multibillion growth in GenAI and focused industries on making that happen in next decade. After I rounded my trip , ended up with mixed opinions about AI adoption, its use and risks. I am happy to see divided world and this is very important for new technologies like AI to evolve properly and get challenged before its full adoption within humans. I conclude my this post written in a flight with a remark by my 9 years old son — Dad , can ChatGPT cook me a lunch of my choice without chatting?. Stay tuned for my next post, keep challenging yourself, new technologies. Do not forget that what taste good is not necessarily good for your health. Start focusing on other side of the spectrum is important.

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