Demystifying Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the new gift of (IT) that enables the handling of data - created and stored in the binary of computer language - with a speed that surpassed the human capacity for collation and analysis.

Just as IT made human processing 'smart', AI makes the Technology itself 'smart' - being 'smart' basically means being able to enhance 'productivity' per unit of 'resource' whether it is the 'human' resource or 'time'.

The first thing to know about AI is that it is an advanced application of IT but within the fundamental constraint of an 'input-output' process - which is a sober reminder that it was not a panacea for all human problems. The progress is by way of a phenomenal increase in the capacity to analyse data but the basis of that exceptional performance was still the use of 'keywords' or 'patterns' fed into the computer system as was happening earlierthe only difference being that this capacity-building required the instrumentality of supercomputers.

A supercomputer comprises a very large number of processor chips that can perform billions or trillions of computations per second. Various facets of AI such as 'Machine learning', 'Deep learning', 'Natural language process' or 'Computer vision' are all dependent on the same inputoutput principle.

To the 'data processing' capacity is now added the AI's new achievement of being able to emulate human functions. In this era of multi-media applications,

AI is enabling the simulation of voice, 'looks' and personal choices to produce authentic looking identities which may lie on the turf of entertainment presently but which should raise alarm for the potential it had of encouraging 'misinformation', fraud and social-media misuse for multiple purposes including the game of politics. This identity reproduction is again possible only because technology has the capacity to integrate multiple data fed into the system and collate them for responding to 'specific commands'.

Of course, the wherewithal for using this kind of AI application is elaborate and expensivethe computer has to have GPU (Graphic Processing Unit) in place of a CPU.

San Francisco, July 9 (IANS)

Researchers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have discovered the most distant active supermassive black hole to date. The black hole is located in the galaxy CEERS 1019.

"The galaxy, CEERS 1019, existed just over 570 million years after the big bang, and its black hole is less massive than any other yet identified in the early universe. Not only that, they've easily 'shaken out' two more black holes that are also on the smaller side, and existed 1 and 1.1 billion years after the big bang," NASA said. According to the space agency, the black hole within CEERS 1019 is more similar to the black hole at the centre of our Milky Way galaxy, which is 4.6 million times the mass of the Sun.

Moreover, NASA spotted another pair of small black holes -- the first, within galaxy CEERS 2782, and the second in galaxy CEERS 746.

"Researchers have long known that there must be lower mass black holes in the early universe. Webb is the first observatory that can capture them so clearly," team member Dale Kocevski of Colby College explained.

"Now we think that lower mass black holes might be all over the place, waiting to be discovered," he added.

Moreover, the NASA telescope spotted 11 galaxies that formed when the universe was 470 to 675 million years old, which is significant because researchers predicted Webb would identify fewer galaxies at these distances.

Global public cloud revenue crosses $500 bn, Microsoft leads

New Delhi, July 8 (IANS) Led by Microsoft, global revenue for the public cloud services market reached $545.8 billion last year, an increase of 22.9 per cent over 2021, according to a new report. Top 5 public cloud service providers – Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Salesforce, Google, and Oracle – captured more than 41 per cent of the worldwide total and growing 27.3 per cent year over year, according to the latest IDC data.

With offerings in all four deployment categories, Microsoft remained in the top position in the overall public cloud services market with 16.8 per cent share, followed by Amazon Web Services with 13.5 per cent share.

Software as a Service –applications (SaaS-applications) continued to be the largest source of public cloud services revenue, accounting for more than 45 per cent of the total in 2022.

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) was the second largest revenue category with 21.2 per cent of the total while Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service – System Infrastructure Software (SaaS – SIS) delivered 17 per cent and 16.7 per cent of overall revenue, respectively.

Tiger 3

RELEASE DATE: Diwali 2023

LANGUAGE: Hindi, Tamil, Telugu (With English Subtitles)

PRODUCER: Yash Raj Films

DIRECTOR: Maneesh Sharma

CAST: Salman Khan, Katrina Kaif, Emraan Hashmi

DUNKI

RELEASE DATE: 22 December 2023

LANGUAGE: Hindi (With English Subtitles)

DIRECTOR: Rajkumar Hirani

CAST: Shah Rukh Khan, Taapsee Pannu

Pippa

RELEASE DATE: TBA

LANGUAGE: Hindi (With English Subtitles)

PRODUCER: RSVP, Roy Kapur

Films

DIRECTOR: Raja Krishna Menon

SYNOPSIS: About Brigadier Balram Singh Mehta of the 45th Cavalry tank squadron who fought on the eastern front during the Indo-Pakistan war of 1971 along with his siblings.

Jawan

7 September 2023 | Hindi, Tamil, Telugu

LANGUAGE: Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada (With English Subtitles)

DIRECTOR: Atlee Kumar

CAST: Shah Rukh Khan, Nayanthara, Sanya Malhotra, Priyamani, Yogi Babu

SRK’s bald look, heavy-duty action in ‘prevue’ of ‘Jawan’ promise another blockbuster

face covered with the mask. The prevue further invokes hysteria as superstars from south India like Nayanthara and Vijay Sethupathi, and Bollywood stars Sanya Malhotra, and Deepika Padukone in a special appearance grace the screen.

The surprise is though towards the end with SRK sporting a bald look and shaking his leg to 'Bekarar Kar Ke Hume Yun Na Jaaiyie'.

Kiara shares video of her ‘Raat Baki’ song sequence taken in a single shot

Bollywoodmegastar Shah Rukh Khan, who earlier set the boxoffice on fire with his last release 'Pathaan', is back to repeat the feat with his upcoming film 'Jawan' and the 'prevue' for the same cements the fact. The asset titled 'prevue', which was released on Monday, features the megastar, known for his hair texture, sporting a bald look, and doing heavy duty action. The word 'prevue' means an advertisement of short scenes from a motion picture that will appear in the near future. The prevue, two minutes and 12 seconds in length, begins with a bird's eye view of a remote area which is attacked by unidentified bandits and people run for cover, it then quickly moves to a metro city where people are running around in commotion wearing the signature mask that SRK wore in the first look of the film as SRK's voice-over of, "Main kaun hoon kaun nahi, pata nahi". As visuals of army men fill up the screen with a tight close up of, wait for it, SRK in a pair of black aviators. 30 seconds into the prevue, things pace up as the viewers get to see explosions, fights, flames, gun shots, before SRK finally makes the appearance albeit with half

It capitalises on SRK's stardom as it makes references to many of his works, most famously, "Naam toh suna hi hoga" from 'Dil To Pagal Hai' and the train sequence from 'Ra.One'. By the looks of it and of course a brilliant and a pacy score by Anirudh Ravichander promise another blockbuster which would further put Bollywood back on track.

The prevue is filled with moments, some of which are pure fan service, that make an impact on the minds of the viewer and have the potential to lure the people into theatre and the illustrious starcast ensures that the same would happen.

The film has been directed by Atlee and is all set to hit the theatres on September 7, 2023.