InfoFire sat down with Ajai Chowdhry, co-founder of HCL, often hailed as the father of India’s hardware industry. His personal story mirrors that of the nation: born in the turbulence of Partition, tested through decades of technological nation-building, and still relentless in his mission to make India a true product nation.
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We’ve been sold a lie about human-AI collaboration. The truth is far more unsettling: humans and AI don’t operate on different levels—they operate in fundamentally incompatible realities. One experiences genuine uncertainty and constructs meaning through time; the other executes pattern-matching in milliseconds without ever “knowing” anything at all. It’s time to stop pretending they’re teammates and start designing for what they actually are: oil and water.
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In today’s fast-paced world, many teenagers and young adults in their 20s and 30s seem glued to their screens. They stream videos, scroll social media, and read e-books on devices. This raises a big question: Are physical libraries dying out because young people aren’t visiting them to read books? This review looks at the past, present, and future of libraries to argue that no, this isn’t the end. Instead, libraries are changing to stay relevant, blending old-school charm with modern tech.
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What if artificial intelligence could help us measure how governments make decisions? This article explains KOALA, a new AI-driven framework that turns abstract “policy styles” into measurable indicators, showing how expert knowledge and machine collaboration can make the hidden logic of governance visible.
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On August 7, 2025, OpenAI officially launched GPT‑5, marking a watershed moment in the evolution of AI. But is this a giant leap forward, or a stumble in the rush to innovate?
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At its core, Ghost Month is about infrastructures of connection. The gates of the underworld are said to swing open, allowing for traffic (spiritual, emotional, social) between realms. It is about networks: between the living and the dead and also between generations, between households and temples, between earthly desires and cosmic orders. And here is where I want to ask: what if we read the internet itself as a kind of ghost gate? What if the lag, glitches, hidden circuits of our digital infrastructures are not simply “errors” but hauntings, reminders that our networks, too, are spectral spaces where living and nonliving, human and machinic, constantly mingle?
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Can AI have a conscience? Of course, today’s AI isn’t a sentient being with feelings or guilt. It won’t lose sleep over a tough decision. But as artificial intelligence plays a bigger role in our lives, we do expect it to act responsibly. In essence, we want AI to follow ethical principles, a sort of programmed “conscience” so that it helps society without harming it. This is the crux of AI ethics, an increasingly important topic now that machine learning systems are making decisions that matter.
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We still call it social media, but it hasn’t been social in years. What started as a space for connection and conversation has morphed into something quieter, stickier, and far more behavioral. People don’t open these apps to talk anymore. They open them to scroll. That shift in intent changes everything. I call this new reality Scroll Media.
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AI is the new plastic because our relationship to it is proving just as short-termist. There isn’t enough evidence to suggest that we are planning, as a planet, for AI’s long-term risks. We’re governed mostly, in fact, by what AI is doing now.
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Typos, blurry terms, missing details – search engines, such as Bing, Google, and Yahoo, have learnt to recognize and deal with unclear search queries. “Did you mean …?” is a counter-question most of us internet users may have gotten once from these tools after entering a search query. So, these systems have our inaccuracies covered, right? And we can explore the search results and relax? Well, it is not that easy.
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