Articles by Asad Baig
A NOTIFICATION appeared on some iPhones carrying the BBC News logo. Luigi Mangione, the man accused of killing UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson in New York, had shot himself, it said.
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IN a Los Angeles courtroom, Kaley G.M., 20, described a childhood consumed by social media. She began using YouTube at six and Instagram at nine. On one occasion, she said, she spent 16 hours on Insta...
OLD science fiction had a simple trick. When something had to sound impossibly advanced, writers added the word ‘quantum’ to it. Quantum engine. Quantum lock. Quantum field. Nobody knew exactly wh...
“LOOK at that thing, dude. My gosh. There’s a whole fleet of them. They’re all going against the wind … look at that thing. It’s rotating.” While this may sound like a scene from a sci-fi ...
ON Jan 17, 1961, Dwight D. Eisenhower sat before a television camera to deliver his farewell address as the president of the United States. Instead of a simple ceremonial goodbye, the former five-star...
I ONCE made the mistake of watching one Republic TV reel, and now my algorithm refuses to believe I want nothing to do with Arnab Goswami and his nightly shouting festival. Lately, the familiar theatr...
RECENTLY, I was invited to speak at a conference on artificial intelligence, where a familiar and increasingly urgent question resurfaced: as AI becomes extraordinarily efficient at sourcing, processi...
“FOR every prompt on ChatGPT, the cost is a bottle of water spilled”, read a post I recently came across on my timeline; an attempt to moralise the environmental cost of every AI prompt. The impli...
