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Fintech Mafia Carousel Pumping is the circular shilling of one another’s financial products and services by a bunch of fintech founders with least regard for truth or consumer interest. I recently came across the following exhibit of Fintech Mafia Carousel Pumping on LinkedIn. Why do some of us trust Barclays or Bank of America more … Read more
To: editet@timesgroup.com Subject: Big Tech, Don’t Be A Big Brother Dear Editor of Economic Times: This has reference to the op-ed entitled Big Tech, Don’t Be A Big Brother by Dhanendra Kumar, Former Chairman, Competition Commission of India (CCI), in The Economic Times. This article is full of factual and logical inaccuracies. Let me list … Read more
On the one hand, there are 48 Payments Services Providers offering UPI payments in India. Which is a lot. On the other hand, many people say there are very few UPI players and claim that there’s a huge concentration risk in UPI. This FUD narrative has scaled new heights after RBI recently cracked down on … Read more
OpenAI released GPT-4o yesterday. Pronounced “Four Oh”, the latest version of GPT combines audio, vision, and text in a single Large Language Model. I got access to GPT-4o earlier today. (For the uninitiated, existing users of ChatGPT don’t have to look for any subscription / invitation link for 4o. As and when it’s enabled for … Read more
In Ten Revolutionary Things About AI – Part 1, we described five gamechangers about ChatGPT and other Generative Artificial Intelligence platforms. In this Part 2, we shall cover five more revolutionary things about AI. 6. Weird Regulatory Proposals There are broadly two lobbies for regulating Gen AI: A) Closed Source (via Sam Altman and Vinod … Read more
Artificial intelligence is promising to disrupt a wide array of legacy practices. – Dan Primack, Axios PRO Rata. Based on my firsthand experience with the AI tsunami over the past 9-10 months, I can wholeheartedly get behind the above prediction. In fact, I’ve already noticed 10 revolutionary things aka gamechangers about ChatGPT and other GenAI … Read more
The other day, someone complained that ChatGPT did not follow his instructions. Ansh Agrawal: Is it just me, or has ChatGPT become worse at following instructions? I told it to do X, and it did Y. I cleared out the instructions and asked if it understood them. It said yes. But, it did the same … Read more
SEC’s approval for Bitcoin ETF makes it official that Bitcoin is an asset – because ETFs are created only out of assets (or asset classes, apart from indexes). Ergo you have Sensex ETF, S&P500 ETF, Gold ETF, Crude Oil ETF. Crude oil ETFs — KK (@KrishnakuKumar) February 8, 2024 Since ETF is not a thing … Read more
Forty years ago, people used to ask, we have FORTRAN for scientific applications and COBOL for business applications, why do we need PASCAL, C++, and dBaseIII+? Twenty five years ago, the question changed to, we have C++ and Foxpro, what’s the need for Java and .NET? Ten years ago, people wondered why a decentralized app … Read more
(This post is a slightly edited version of my answer to the above Quora question.) Equating the cash handling capabilty of a vending machine with that of an ATM is like saying a shovel and 80 feet container are the same because they both handle loads. Most vending machines only accept coins. The few that … Read more