How tech is helping reimagine business, unlock productivity
India’s tryst with computing for over six decades has placed us in a unique position of strength and at the start of the next phase in the evolution of Indian IT. On a lighter note, we may be closer to our mark in technology forecasts perhaps by revisiting what science fiction writers envisaged—predictions by A.C. Clarke about geosynchronous satellites for communication, by Douglas Adams about real-time audio language translation, and by George Orwell about a world of surveillance have all come true. After the world first utilized steam power to mechanize, then used electric power to mass-produce, and next harnessed electronics and IT to automate, it is now leveraging a mix of technologies like AI, IoT, robotics and genomics to reimagine businesses and unlock human productivity. However, a recent multidisciplinary study from Stanford reveals something more fundamental—ML algorithms may be learning from society’s deep-rooted biases that are ingrained in the data used to train them. Similarly, studies have shown that popular social media apps using facial recognition ML algorithms to detect emotions of a subject in a photo consistently scored African-American faces as angrier than Caucasian-American faces.
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