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A MOOC Review : What Can Blockchain Do for you?

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Pic Credit Blockchain is the kid in the technology block. Is it? We have been reading about it for the last 10 years. The rapid growth of cryptocurrencies and the remarkable rise and fall of currencies have been in the news. A couple of binge-worthy series on Netflix series also piqued my interest in this topic. With all this happening, I wanted a basic understanding of this topic. Some excellent MOOCs on the course did help. These MOOCs did help clear up the basics. I still missed the big picture.  What Can Blockchain Do for you? And this course was the one which did clear up some of the basic understandings of how blockchain can be put into business usage. The course instructor Lloyd Keays  did a great job breaking up the jargon and explaining it to a layman like me.  Some of the salient pointers from the course ( for future reference). 1.) It's a new way to share trust. 2.) No database ( no one owns it) 3.) Technology needs to evolve more, especially in NFTs etc 4.) Regulations

Generative AI: Videos

Generative AI: Videos Videos Title Description Elevate Your Prompts: A Guide to Superior AI Results Guide on writing effective prompts for AI. The Role of Humanity in Shaping the Future of AI TED Talk by Mustafa Suleyman on the future of AI. Goblin Tools Demo Demonstration of the Goblin Tools app. How GenAI Works Explains how generative AI functions. How to Write Better Prompts for AI Chatbots Tips on writing better prompts for AI chatbots. Eric Schmidt on the Future of AI Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt discusses the future of AI.

Generative AI: Courses as Listed In TechSambad

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Generative AI: Courses as Listed In TechSambad Courses Title Provider Description The AI Awakening: Implications for the Economy and Society Stanford University Explores the economic and societal implications of AI. Generative AI Language Modeling with Transformers IBM Provides a deep dive into attention models and transformers. Use Generative AI as Your Thought Partner Coursera Emphasizes the use of generative AI as a thought partner for executives. Leveraging AI for Enhanced Content Creation Coursera Focuses on using generative AI in marketing and communications.

The Rise of Generative AI: A Game Changer in Various Industries

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This blog discusses the term "artificial intelligence" (AI), its evolution, and its impacts on various markets. The term was first coined in 1955, and over the years, AI has grown to have significant influence in different sectors. For instance, there has been a decrease in writing, customer service, and translation jobs due to AI. However, fields like web designing and video editing have increased demand. In the stock market, companies showing potential benefits from AI have seen growth, like NVIDIA, SAP, Microsoft, and Salesforce.   The blog also discusses GPT (Generative Pre-training Transformer) and how it reached 100 million users in just two months. The blog states that the growth of AI contributes significantly to global GDP due to increased efficiency in different work processes.   The evolution of AI runs parallel with the growth of data and computing power. The emergence of the internet in the early 70s and its transition from Web 2.0, where individuals create t

Talk : Traditional Marketing to Digital Marketing - When & how to shift?

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A talk given on 11th July, 2021 to Antwalk on role of digital marketing in this new era.

Digital Transformation - Here are the three ways it can happen

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Part 2 comes after 6 years of the original post -  "How to thrive in the world of digitization". A lot has happened. Internet is now considered an essential service like water and electricity. Almost 4.66 billion people were active internet users as of October 2020, encompassing 59 per cent of the global population ( Source ). Around 4 Bn people are active social media users. The global cloud market is around 62 Billion in 2020 and is expected to grow at 20 CAGR YoY by 2025. Lately, I enrolled on MOOC on  The Business Opportunities of a Digitally Transformed Economy   It was a course that talked about how to digitally transform your organization and prepare it to navigate the technology and business changes for the future. Experts talked about many things which can transform our future in the next 5 years. Three things that stood out for me are : 1.) SuperSpeed Connectivity:  With the advent of 5G, we will unleash new potential for machine-to-machine interactions. New opportu

Circular Economy Hackathon - 4 Innovative Ideas

  Long before the famous song – The Circle of Life – from the movie, the Lion King, set everyone pondering over this philosophical question, eminent thinkers and economists tinkered with this idea of “closed loops” for containing the effects of unrestrained human consumption on our ecology and economy.   Circular Economy, a sustainability model, propounded by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, is making world leaders take note of the need for re-X (re-use, re-make, re-cycle, etc.). Although the foundation has been advocating the cause in the last decade, the concept of circularity has been around for quite some time. In the 1960s, Kenneth Boulding presented the concept with different terminology. Walter Stahel’s work, a decade later, also provided another perspective on this topic of sustainability. However, it is to the credit of the  Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s  sustained efforts that a lot of interest and meaningful engagement has happened in recent years to action sustainability