In what could become an issue between India and Sri Lanka, Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahindra Rajapakshe on Monday said the East Container Terminal (ECT) of Colombo Port will be 100 percent operated by Sri Lankan Ports Authority (SLPA)
Sovereign AI: Why It Must Become a Strategic National Priority for India
For a Viksit Bharat, data, computation and intelligence will become strategic resources. Protecting them is not protectionism; it is prudent nation-building. India should remain globally connected, internationally collaborative and technologically ambitious but sovereign enough to protect its citizens, institutions and national interests.
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The real significance of AI, therefore, may not be about who is the first to cross some hypothetical finish line called AGI. It may be about who is able to diffuse AI most rapidly through the real economy, into factories, services, logistics, research and everyday business
AI Evolution and Consequences: Is Mankind Playing With Fire?
But a plausible scenario about fear of AI could result when a rogue human coder may put in a malicious code (out of mischief ) in this far-from-equilibrium AI system and start a chain of events which may destroy the system.
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The purpose of privatisation, therefore, should not be to find a private buyer for every government-developed rocket. It should be to create an industry capable of designing, manufacturing, operating and eventually improving India's future launch vehicles.
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