India gives hope for the future: Bill Gates

NEW DELHI, FEB 28

(AGENCIES): Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates visited the Reserve Bank of India’s office in Mumbai and held talks with RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das today. Bill Gates is currently on a trip to India to witness the progress made in various areas including climate change.

The official Twitter handle of the RBI shared a few pictures from Bill Gates’ visit where the philanthropist is seen standing next to Shaktikanta Das.

“Mr. Bill Gates visited RBI Mumbai today and held wide ranging discussions with Governor Shaktikanta Das,” the caption read.

Last week, Bill Gates, in his personal blog, Gates Notes, wrote that he would be visiting India to check the progress the country has made over the years. “I’m headed back to India next week. Although I’ve spent a lot of time there over the years—doing everything from checking out toilets to visiting a village that’s home to the one poorest, most underserved castes in India—I haven’t been back since before the pandemic. I can’t wait to see how much progress has been made in that time,” Gates wrote.

Touching upon climate change and global health, Bill Gate appreciated India’s progress in solving various issues. He wrote, “There is no better proof than the remarkable progress that India has accomplished”.

Saying that “India as a whole gives me hope for the future”, Bill Gates

Meta creating team to build AI tools: CEO

SAN FRANCISCO, FEB

28 (IANS): Meta CEO

Mark Zuckerberg has announced that the company is creating a new “top-level” product team which will be “focused” on generative artificial intelligence (AI).

On Monday, Zuckerberg posted on Facebook, “We’re creating a new toplevel product group at Meta focused on generative AI to turbocharge our work in this area.”

“We’re starting by pulling together a lot of the teams working on generative AI across the company into one group focused on building delightful experiences around this technology into all of our different products.”

He further explained that in the short term, the company will focus on building creative and expressive tools.

And, over the longer term, the company will develop “AI personas” which will help users in a variety of ways.

The company is also exploring experiences with text (like chat in WhatsApp and Messenger), images (like creative Instagram filters and ad formats), as well as “video and multimodal experiences.”

“We have a lot of foundational work to do before getting to the really futuristic experiences, but I’m excited about all of the new things we’ll build along the way,” he added.