Part 1: What makes technological innovations turn into industrial “revolutions”? What is the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0)? And, hold on! Before you answer that, I just came across something called the Fifth Industrial Revolution (Industry 5.0)! It is worrying for me to note the callousness with which people tend…

In April 2021, the EU proposed a regulatory framework for artificial intelligence (AI) related projects and products. As far as I know, this is the first of its kind regulation in the world. There are a few approaches from a few other countries. However, none of them go as deep…

(This is a follow-on article to my previous article on the Future of AI in Industries.) A twenty years old story Almost 20 years ago I was working in the ASIC design industry. I was in a team making digital IP cores for chips to be used in future automobiles…

(Will the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) be a revolution by the industries?) How would artificial intelligence (AI) impact the future of industries and how would industries impact the innovations in the domain of AI? Predicting the future is a fool’s errand! Many great minds have failed at it. So let…

Amit Kumar Mishra (Professor, Electrical Engineering Department, University of Cape Town; Email: akmishra@ieee.org) A very short story! Last year I had a burnt gasket in my second-hand Audi (1997-made). The damage was bad and, being Audi, the price to fix it was exuberant. …

(We are swiftly entering a world-order where going green and thinking about the impact of your innovations are not choices.) Prologue: Going green or creating impacts are not new trends. Green parties have been out there since the 1970s! Even in recent years, a lot has been in the international…

Joining AI and Business through the Missing Link of Perception We all may remember the warning “objects in mirror are closer than they appear” in the rear-view mirrors of motor vehicles. This captures the heart of a wide and complicated phenomenon called “perception”. The fact that makes perception so interesting…