Author: TJ Ravishankar

The ‘new’ fight for the environment

It is time to acknowledge that it is not some visionary businesses but the opening made by years of protests from ordinary people all over the world which have created the space for a set of whole new environment-related businesses. Ironically, this ‘success’ has created a hierarchy which is going to shape the future of the battle for the environment

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Indian roads: Supply chain’s Achilles heel

It is time to see roads as central to any supply chain. Else, the grand call for ‘resilient supply chain’ will falter at every level – national highways, state highways and intracity roads. While road accidents occur on all three types of roads, the last acquires a certain additional significance since they represent last mile connectivity and involve multiple agencies making a unified oversight a nightmare. Unless big businesses intervene, the situation is unlikely to change.

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Unintelligent call

Notwithstanding the ‘qualified success’ of chatGPT, AI and all its branches are in early stages of evolution. It is naïve and irresponsible to call for regulation without a deep understanding of the science behind AI and all its branches, each of which is a highly specialized field. In any case, the global record of regulation isn’t inspiring

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Intelligence: under siege

Generative AI tools like chatGPT, if embraced the way they have been, pose the gravest danger to the very process of knowing. If an aid to the process becomes the process, we are staring at dark times, notwithstanding all the tall claims made, deeply affecting students and teachers alike

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