Author: Satyen K Bordoloi

AI browsers from AI companies promise to revolutionise your work, but it could also endanger you, Satyen K. Bordoloi warns. That AI is the panacea for everything digital has long been touted. Yet, the AI browser wars are taking it to a different level. First came Dia by The Browser Company with its beta version in June 2025, followed closely by Perplexity’s Comet in July. Just in October, OpenAI announced its ChatGPT Atlas browser, which seems to have prompted Microsoft to make CoPilot look more like an AI browser. With other major browsers like Microsoft Edge and Opera had integrated…

Contrary to research so far, a non-peer-reviewed paper stating that being rude to LLMs makes them better has gone viral, but Satyen K. Bordoloi finds the truth is more complicated than clickbait headlines. A few months ago, based on the research up to that time, I had reported in Sify that you should be polite to your LLMs. However, a recent paper, “Mind Your Tone: Investigating How Prompt Politeness Affects LLM Accuracy”, by Om Dobariya and Akhil Kumar from Pennsylvania State University, seems to suggest the opposite, i.e. the meaner you are to your AI, the better answers you get.…

The recent US government tariff on India could be an opportunity in disguise if India plays its cards right, particularly to ace AI, writes Satyen K. Bordoloi. The 50% tariffs on Indian goods imposed by the Trump administration are one of the biggest trade challenges India has faced in decades. Nearly half of our $87 billion exports to the US are now subject to these punitive tariffs and affect critical sectors from textiles and gems to automotive components. The economic stakes for the nation, companies and millions of people are naturally high. Yet, inside the crisis, there is an opportunity…

Decades before ChatGPT, two economists modelled ‘creative destruction’ while a third found out why societies fail. In 2025, their Nobel prize becomes a survival guide for the next two centuries and beyond, finds Satyen K. Bordoloi. The theme song of The Big Bang Theory goes: Our whole universe was in a hot dense state, Then nearly fourteen billion years ago expansion startedFrom all those 14 billion years, till about 200 years ago, human progress was like the clichéd old scooter in Hindi cinema – it sputtered, rather than roar to life. However, just as the rest of the song goes…

It took an emotionally complex man to first imagine a world in which machines could ‘think’, writes Satyen K. Bordoloi I don’t recall the AI system I was tinkering with back in 2019, but I remember my reaction: a surprised chuckle. This was before LLMs became as common as phones. I had asked this nascent intelligence to create an original joke. Curious, yet convinced the system must have scooped it up from the internet, I conducted a thorough search on various search engines. I found similar structures and setups, but never the exact joke. It left me convinced the AI…

In the high-stakes AI world where success is often measured by size, a compact LLM from the Middle East is giving Western models a run for their money, writes Satyen K. Bordoloi. The mantra of the AI world has always been simple: more is good, and bigger is better. Take the United States and China as examples: Both have been engaged in a colossal arms race, building models with hundreds of billions of parameters, requiring immense computational power and capital. China’s DeepSeek in January challenged the US’ supremacy. And now, a model from an entirely unexpected corner of the world…

Many have made it their business to predict the AI bubble burst. But an analysis of computing history should make it abundantly clear why it is never going to happen in the way they predict, writes Satyen K. Bordoloi. At the AI doomsayers market, two types of wares are for sale. First warns of the ‘Terminator scenario’: AI becomes so intelligent that it tries to kill us all. The second: AI valuations are so overblown, it’ll take down the market when it blows and the world along with it. The second seems more reasonable as numerous experts argue AI is…

In a desperate race for energy, Silicon Valley is resurrecting the nuclear industry. But rushed projects and relaxed regulations are creating a perfect storm for a disaster that could make Chernobyl look small, finds Satyen K. Bordoloi It isn’t just the old; the young are equally ignorant about the tech they use. A few months ago, a Gen Z individual who couldn’t peel his eyes off his phone explained cloud computing: “The data rests in some stratospheric satellite; perhaps Starlink?” Here’s the spoiler: your data, everything from your Instagram feed to the anytime, anywhere email, is stored and retrieved from…

For decades, they followed. Now, armed with AI, as Indian pharma companies take steps to lead, the global drug industry will never be the same again, writes Satyen K. Bordoloi. India is renowned as the ‘pharmacy of the world’. And that’s not just because we produce 60% of the world’s vaccines, or because we are the globe’s largest providers of generic medicines that save hundreds of millions of lives with our affordable doses. No! We are also called that because we are an emerging leader in biopharmaceuticals with over 3,000 pharmaceutical companies and approximately 10,500 manufacturing units, including 650 US-FDA-compliant…

On one side is AI swallowing millions of jobs, and on the other is humans being hired to clean up the nonsense AI often generates, finds Satyen K. Bordoloi This was early 2023, a few months after ChatGPT had just made the perfect superintelligence landing in our lives. A producer friend, who wanted a beat sheet of a series written into a synopsis, sent me a document he said he had gotten written. A reading of its first paragraph was all it took to identify the writer: ChatGPT. The perfect robotic structure, excessive and often misplaced adverbs and adjectives, and…