Frugal-Tech, College, Knowledge
Is it knowledge that makes people adopt AI? College is all about a degree ... or is it? DeepSeek jolts Silicon Valley about frugal-tech. So let's go
Does the capability of AI seem magical to you?
The less you know about AI, the more awestruck you are. So before you share your most intimate secrets and emotional tangles, pause. The more you know about how AI actually does stuff, the less likely you are to share personal stuff.
Read this in The Conversation
Do you see this happening around you?
To think out of the box, the easiest option is to begin with a smaller box
Time after time we see the fat cats getting displaced by the nimble poor cousins. The gigantic corporations stare at the startups with disdain. Until DeepSeek claimed to have trained its model at a cost of $6m. Big Tech has been stockpiling the Nvidia chips and spent BILLIONS of dollars in the process.
DeepSeek, Chandrayaan-3, and budget smartphone brands demonstrate that frugal innovation can disrupt industries. By being resourceful and efficient, companies can achieve groundbreaking results with limited resources, challenging the notion that only large companies with massive budgets can drive innovation. This shift towards frugality could lead to a more accessible and equitable future for technology.
Here is a clip doing the rounds when Rajan Anandan, ex-head of Google India had asked Sam Altman if something could be built in $10million?
College?? It is all about the degree
The employers are not hiring enough freshers from campus. They claim that a fresh undergraduate is not employable yet (if you have a growth mindset!) AI is doing all the stuff a slightly clueless newbie will do. The machines don’t worry about return to office policies etc. They don’t complain about the cafeteria.
But college was always about the degree
College education is ONLY about the degree. It's the degree of confidence you gain, empowering you to live a life that goes beyond what you were capable of before you stepped in to college. That's the only difference that matters.
My experience at SRCC, Delhi University was fairly transformative. You can read about the “let-dems”, the iconic profs and listen to something that will tell you what I believe is the purpose of higher education.
Listen to the audio clip at the end of the post
Leave me a comment of you enjoyed listening.
