Shylaja Varma

1 week ago | hindustantimes.com | Shylaja Varma

The founder and former CEO of a US-based e-commerce firm was charged with making false claims about his company’s artificial intelligence (AI) technology when he actually employed human workers at a call center located in the Philippines. Albert Saniger, who founded Nate, which claims to be a "magic shopping app", allegedly fabricated his company's purported artificial intelligence capabilities while covertly employing humans behind the scenes, the US Department of Justice said.

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Shylaja Varma

18 hours agoTL;DR: 2,000 years later, human choices still matter most. One recent rainy afternoon, I found myself in an unexpected role—philosophy teacher to a machine. I was explaining the story of the Bhagavad Gita to a leading large language model, curious to see if it could grasp the lessons at the heart of …

2 weeks ago | hindustantimes.com | Shylaja Varma

Colossal Biosciences fielded reactions from numerous social media users after the Dallas-based biotech firm announced that it has created three dire wolves, which went extinct more than 12,000 years ago and was popularised by the fantasy series Game of Thrones. The start-up, that aims to bring back lost species, on Monday said its scientists had used cloning and gene-editing based on two ancient samples of dire wolf DNA to birth three modern dire wolf pups.

2 weeks ago | htsyndication.com | Shylaja Varma

India, April 8 -- Colossal Biosciences fielded reactions from numerous social media users after the Dallas-based biotech firm announced that it has created three dire wolves, which went extinct more than 12,000 years ago and was popularised by the fantasy series Game of Thrones. The start-up, that aims to bring back lost species, on Monday said its scientists had used cloning and gene-editing based on two ancient samples of dire wolf DNA to birth three modern dire wolf pups.

2 months ago | hindustantimes.com | Shylaja Varma

Celebrity nutritionist Rujuta Diwekar on Wednesday said eating home-cooked food is a healthy practice that can prevent several diseases and fosters family and community bonding. Diwekar also advised people to "not listen to rich boys", seemingly aiming to take a dig at billionaire Nikhil Kamath. The Zerodha co-founder had sparked a discussion on food consumption habits in India and countries like Singapore earlier this week. "Do not listen to rich boys, eating at home is a healthy practice.