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When real intelligence is lost

Hit the bottom. New low. Down and out. The performance of the cricket team has been stunning. Words are not enough. It is unbelievable. It is terrible. The loss against…

Superintelligence

AS if things were not hard enough for universities with declining enrolments and soaring costs, a new spectre has descended over them in the shape of ChatGPT. ChatGPT is an…

Artificial horizons

OF late, it has become almost impossible to navigate a Western news outlet without coming across an opinion about the risks posed by generative artificial intelligence (AI), or its potential…

Is the future artificial?

American journalist Fareed Zakaria, in his book ‘Age of Revolutions’, writes that the speed of technological and economic changes is impacting politics in a manner that is causing anxieties and…

Artificial Intelligence in reality

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a fascinating technological development that is significantly impacting our present-day lives. Given AI’s potential, there is a need to carefully examine what is being entrusted to…

HEC holds training on artificial intelligence

The Higher Education Commission (HEC) and Huawei Technologies Pakistan jointly organised the first ‘Train the Trainers’ workshop for Huawei Certified ICT Associate (HCIA) on Artificial Intelligence (AI). The eight-day training,…

Something wicked this way comes

We live in a world where we are increasingly depending on artificial intelligence (AI) to generate answers to our multiple questions and in some cases to write text for voice…

AI, Faiz and the fight for our words

When was the last time you were compelled to consider something utterly familiar as completely new? To see — or in this case, hear — something you’ve known all your…