Artificial Intelligence (AI)

The rise of AI and leveraging it for employability

Artificial intelligence has emerged as the harbinger of a new era.
20 July 2023

Artificial intelligence is still far from being ‘intelligent’

Why does Big Tech want an immediate 6-month pause on any further development?
13 June 2023

AI will replenish, complement and enhance human intelligence

Students in higher education in the USA have been using software tools enhanced by AI for years.
30 April 2023

Google's AI apparently learned Bangla without any training

Google's artificial intelligence (AI) has apparently learned a language on its own without any training,
19 April 2023

ChatGPT and Writing: A Deadly Combination!

When it comes to writing, ChatGPT is a BIG nothing
6 April 2023

Is AI the solution to the animation industry’s so-called “labour shortage”?

Are we, as a society, ready to use AI if it is used at the expense of starving artists?
7 March 2023

AI stocks on the rise

Investors are betting on the growth prospects of artificial intelligence (AI) stocks, leading to a recent surge in their value.
6 March 2023

AI and the Global South

Unprecedentedly powerful predictive tools will strengthen authoritarian regimes’ surveillance capacity.
5 March 2023

Why I’m not concerned about students using ChatGPT

The OpenAI language processing tool is still far from being reliable.
13 February 2023

The Next Globalisation

Developments in three areas – telework, renewables, and AI – will bind countries together in new networks of interdependence.
27 January 2023

Digital trends transforming workplace

While it is vital to introduce digital technologies to workplaces, it is equally important to identify the problem areas where they can be implemented. Let’s look at some of the recent digital trends which will impact workplaces in the immediate future.
22 December 2022

The unbearable smugness of AI

My phone thinks it knows me better than I know myself – how preposterous! Or is it?
27 October 2022

The trouble with technology

A digitalised world is facing the challenge of cybersecurity as threats rise across the world
19 October 2022

Curbing money laundering through AI

East India Company colonised Bengal in 1757 when India’s contribution to the world’s GDP was about 27 per cent and Bengal (Suba-E-Bengal) was one of the wealthiest places on Earth.
16 August 2022

AI-generated imagery: Democratising art or demolishing aspirations?

What we know about creativity and AI has changed by leaps and bounds.
11 August 2022

Why Bangladesh should adopt Agriculture 4.0

Technologies are getting more affordable with time, allowing farmers in Bangladesh to adopt Agriculture 4.0, which offers much greater efficiency and production potential.
2 June 2022

How the arts can help make AI better

We need to seriously think about the effective integration of “arts” into our education system.
12 March 2022

AI used for creation of novel, unconventional artworks

A lot of talk is going on about unconventional and extravagant works of art created by artificial intelligence (AI) -- currently on display in various places across the nation.
23 December 2019

AI innovation to get big boost with pilot zones

China plans to build around 20 pilot zones for artificial intelligence innovation by 2023, in an effort to deeply integrate AI technology with economic and social development according to a guideline published by the Ministry of Science and Technology on Thursday.
7 September 2019

'DeepNude' app to 'undress' women shut down after furor

The creators of an application allowing users to virtually "undress" women using artificial intelligence shut it down after a social media uproar over its potential for abuse.
29 June 2019