Arvind’s Newsletter

1. Vistara’s integration into Air India : Tarun Shukla, the Aviation editor of Economic Times has interviewed the CEO of Vistara Vinod Kannan to understand the challenges ahead in its merger integration with Air India

2.Whilst the rise of AI is positive in many respects, criminals are also learning to use AI better. This long read focuses on how powerful new techniques for stealing money are being created using AI. Generative A.I. has made it frighteningly easy to replicate someone’s voice, creating a powerful new tool for scammers. Read on to this piece in Slate magazine by Lizzie O’Leary.

3.In this article, Bloomberg put the AI chatbot to the test for travel planning using three very different scenarios, and its performance varied widely. Still, its successes showed surprising promise.

4. This piece in the Wall Street Journal, analyses the jobs most exposed to ChatGPT

Accountants are among the professionals whose careers are most exposed to the capabilities of generative artificial intelligence, according to a new study. The researchers found that at least half of accounting tasks could be completed much faster with the technology.

The same was true for mathematicians, interpreters, writers and nearly 20% of the U.S. workforce, according to the study by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and OpenAI, the company that makes the popular AI tool ChatGPT.

The tool has provoked excitement and anxiety in companies, schools, governments and the general public for its ability to process massive amounts of information and generate sophisticated—though not necessarily accurate or unbiased—content in response to prompts from users.

The researchers, who published their working paper online this month, examined occupations’ exposure to the new technology, which is powered by software called large language models that can analyze and generate text. They analyzed the share of a job’s tasks where GPTs—generative pre-trained transformers—and software that incorporates them can reduce the time it takes to complete a task by at least 50%. Research has found that state-of-the-art GPTs excel in tasks such as translation, classification, creative writing and generating computer code.

5.How Pathaan scripted history without the traditional media blitz associated with major Bollywood launches over the years.

Pathaan, which had netted over ₹507 crore at last count, is now the highest grossing original Hindi film of all time, likely to beat the record held by the Hindi version of Baahubali 2: The Conclusion. It’s also the fifth Indian movie to surpass the ₹1,000-crore mark across the globe. So how did the movie achieve the feat without any high-decibel marketing blitz that is so typical of big-banner movies? Read on