Author: Satyen K Bordoloi

After Google’s Willow comes Microsoft’s Majorana 1, promising more fantastical quantum computing ahead. But does the reality live up to the hype? Satyen K. Bordoloi investigates. So far, we could only say that about AI, but since last year, even quantum computing has been moving at a pace that’s hard for anyone to keep up with. Google’s announcement about its Willow chip was barely a few months ago, and hot on its heels comes Microsoft with Majorana 1, promising even more fantastical features. While the tech industry is naturally excited about this new chip—so much so that Satya Nadella is…

The next evolution of smart homes isn’t about smarts – it’s about personality, thanks to some new initiatives by companies like Apple, finds Satyen K. Bordoloi. Remember that adorable lamp hopping over Pixar’s logo? Apple just turned that bouncing bundle of curiosity into reality! While we were busy teaching our smart lights and fridges to connect to the internet, Apple was cooking up something far more delicious – they’re teaching our home gadgets to have actual personalities. And they’re hardly the only ones. This is 2025, where your lamp doesn’t just light up your room – it’ll try to brighten…

A recent study confirms what should have been common sense – effective AI needs natural intelligence. Satyen K. Bordoloi explains how this finding reinforces AI’s role as a powerful tool. We all have a friend who bought an expensive DSLR camera, thinking it would automatically make them the next Annie Leibovitz. Or that uncle who purchased a top-of-the-line gaming PC only to use it for sending emails? Well, turns out the same principle applies to artificial intelligence – all the computing power in the world won’t help if you don’t know what you’re doing. A groundbreaking study by Aidan Toner-Rodgers…

A recent controversy about AI use for a Marvel poster underscores the real problem: it isn’t about AI use in movies, but our refusal to accept it, writes Satyen K. Bordoloi. Remember when your grandpa used to say, “Back in my day, we did things the real way”? Here we are in 2025, and having the same conversation about AI – just that the grandpas, in this case, are not baby boomers or Gen X but millennials and even Gen Z. Oh, how we love getting worked up about anything that’s ‘back in the days.’ https://twitter.com/FantasticFour/status/1886765551722136010 The moment Marvel released…

The rise of DeepSeek-type AI is giving the Global South something more valuable than oil or minerals: access to cheap external intelligence. This could herald a new world order, writes Satyen K. Bordoloi. Over the last month and a half, I’ve been using DeepSeek; it’s become my go-to AI. Yes, it is that good. Despite this, I – or anyone else – could never predict what happened on January 27 when it sent US tech stocks on a tailspin, wiping a whopping $593 billion from NVIDIA’s value in a single day. Though it recovered in the week, the message was…

From psychics to AI, the dubious origins of the name Trump gave to his AI project portends its future, writes Satyen K. Bordoloi. In the shadowy corridors of Cold War-era America, where espionage and secrecy trumped diplomacy, the U.S. government embarked on a bizarre mission that seems straight out of a dystopian science fiction novel. The Stargate Project was a clandestine program launched in the 1970s by the CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). Its aim? To harness the power of psychic phenomena—remote viewing, telepathy, and clairvoyance—to gain an edge over the Soviet Union. Picture this: a group of…

From budget-friendly breakthroughs to mind-blowing models, China’s AI underdogs are redefining the game finds Satyen K. Bordoloi In Liu Cixin’s Three-Body Problem series, aliens sabotage Earth’s technological progress to keep humanity in check. The US, in a somewhat less extraterrestrial but equally dramatic move, tried to do the same to China: slapping export bans on advanced chips and blacklisting companies. And let’s be honest, if there’s one thing both Biden and Trump agree on, it’s their shared love for hating China. But here’s the twist: instead of stifling China’s AI growth, these restrictions have only fuelled its rise. As I…

Rapid deployment of AI in scientific pursuits is creating an assembly line of discoveries that is revolutionising the world, writes Satyen K. Bordoloi. “The assembly line is a revolutionary manufacturing process that transformed production methods during the Industrial Revolution,” ChatGPT began. “It involves a product moving along a conveyor belt or track, with workers or machines at each station performing specific tasks to gradually assemble the final product. “This method significantly increased efficiency, reduced costs, and enabled mass production.” As this article discusses two seemingly disparate subjects—Assembly Line (AL) and Artificial Intelligence (AI)—I thought it’d be interesting to let one…

In a world where robots fold laundry, is it too disconcerting to have one come for Olympics gold, asks Satyen K. Bordoloi In 2023, a reel showing a robot crushing a human at table tennis got 114 million views. The video was a deepfake. But hold onto your circuit boards because 2025 is about to serve up something even better. We’re entering an era where robots won’t just be Amazon’s warehouse workers; they’ll cook dinner for you, tuck your child to bed, and maybe actually become your ping-pong buddies. With major tech companies from Boston to Beijing rolling out household…

We no longer need to have mere Robot Dreams as robots with AI are truly becoming our dream machines, writes Satyen K. Bordoloi Remember when we all lost our minds watching Boston Dynamics’ Spot dance to BTS? Well, hold onto your hats because 2025 is about to make that look like a wind-up toy. The robot revolution isn’t coming – it’s already here, and it’s way cooler (and less dystopian) than sci-fi would have us believe. As Dr. Alfred Lanning said in I, Robot, “There have always been ghosts in the machine.” But now, those ghosts, as AI, are making…