The Morning Brief

In an open and candid chat, Sam Altman CEO of OpenAI and the unofficial leader of the AI revolution — deep-dives into the wider impact of the AI revolution in an exclusive conversation with Satyan Gajwani, Vice Chairman of Times Internet. Altman addresses questions from the audience as they delve into a wide array of themes — from the investor frenzy around generative artificial intelligence (AI) to the fears of rampant unemployment that would accompany the adoption of the technology.

• 00:00 Introduction
• 01:36 Who is Sam Altman?
• 02:57 What does OpenAI do? 
• 04:23 What’s the most interesting thing about ChatGPT? 
• 07:30 The two miracles happening in the world of AI
• 09:00 The fundamental question about AI - Is the content authentic or not? 
• 11:03 How will the coming of ChatGPT affect our jobs?
• 14:11 Is the threat real - Will robots make humans extinct? 
• 17:04 Sam Altman on the importance of making a non-biased, inclusive and multi-lingual product
• 20:48 What is OpenAI’s company structure?
• 25:05 What’s next for OpenAI?
• 27:43 What’s the most exciting thing coming ahead for the world to see? 
• 28:51 Sam Altman on the importance of regulation for AI companies
• 35:45 Do you think OpenAI will reach singularity by 2045?
• 37:32 Will ChatGPT ever overpower the feeling of creative satisfaction?
• 41:52 Will AI ever be able to supersede humans in terms of love?
• 44:45 Should and can AI models offer emotional support?
• 48:00 What will AI’s future be when it comes to making ethical choices?
• 50:16 How important it is to have talent density in your company?
• 56:13 How best do we create a target state organization to have a soft landing? 
• 1:02:09 What are some of the correct evaluation tests for an AGI?

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As the government pulls the plug on its Rs 10,000-crore FAME-II subsidy scheme, we got behind the scenes to understand what really happened and why? Host Kalpana Pathak takes us through the twists and turns of untraceable emails, a whistleblower, alleged misappropriation of subsidies and a startup industry under stress. 

Host Kalpana Pathak from The Economic Times talks too

• Sohinder Gill, CEO at Hero Electric talks about why there was a need to import and how EV makers are struggling 
• Ashim Sharma, Senior Partner at Nomura Research Institute tells us what can India do to strengthen its EV ecosystem
• Sharmistha Mukherjee, Senior Assistant Editor, The Economic Times tells us what is the government's view on the FAME II subsidy issue
  
  

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SEBI’s crackdown on finfluencers has intensified. After PR Sundar, the markets regulator penalised Gunjan Verma for providing unregistered investment advice. But what is pushing SEBI to strike hard now and is there a grey area between education and advice? Which sort of content and conversation is acceptable and which is not? Is compliance too cumbersome? Does SEBI need to make compliance easier before ramping up regulation? 

Host Apoorva Mittal from The Economic Times gets all the questions answered from 

• Pranjal Kamra, Youtuber on the impact in the world of finfluencers
• Sandeep Parekh, Managing Partner, Finsec Law Advisors on the grey areas and the need to reduce compliance burden while adding regulation 
• Swapnil Saurav, CEO & Co-Founder, Rigi Club on what it will mean for monetising content from now onwards. 

Credits: P R Sundar, Warikoo, INAVJOTBRAR, Devansh Rai, Akshat Shrivastava

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Disney cites BARC data to claim this to be the most watched IPL ever on TV with almost 50 crore viewers, while Jio Cinema says 3.2 crore concurrent viewers watched the IPL finals between Chennai Super Kings and Gujarat Titans on May 29. But at the end of the day, it's always about the moolah. So host Arijit Barman sat down with Sanjog Gupta, Head of Sports Disney STAR Network for a candid one-on-one on viewership growth to revenue targets and life beyond T20 and if sports on linear TV is still going strong, how long will it remain an outlier?

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In an exclusive chat with Economic Times's Romita Majumdar and Surabhi Agarwal, Adam Selipsky, who overlooks the $80 billion cloud computing arm of online retail giant Amazon, talks of the role of cloud during unprecedented global uncertainty. In this episode, the AWS CEO highlights the rising prevalence of local storage of digital data and points to AWS’s plans to take on Microsoft’s ChatGPT as well as Google’s Bard with its own generative AI platform. Tune in now!

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On May 19th, India's central bank, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), announced the removal of 2000 currency notes from circulation. Even as it gave the public a demonetisation Deja vu, the currency regulator assured its just business as usual. But does the 2000 rupee note wapsi an economic incentive or a political push and is the last big attempt to get the cash hoarders in the fold of the formal economy? In the episode we hear from-:
- R. Gandhi, Former Deputy Governor of RBI to understand what distinguishes the withdrawal of 2000 notes from the 2016 demonetization and why the need for a deadline
- Saravanan Annadurai, Official Spokesperson - DMK to get the political ringside view; 
- Ajay Bansal, President - All India Petroleum Dealers Association (AIPDA) to discover how the elimination of the 2000 note is making it tough for petrol pumps around the country; 
- M.C. Govardhana Rangan, Editor - The Economic Times on the economics of the policy and the intention of the central bank
- Sugata Ghosh, Associate Editor - The Economic Times on the impact of the ecosystem and if it changes anything for India's cash economy
Credits: Moneycontrol, NDTV, NDTV 2 and CNN-News18

To read Sugata Ghosh's full article on Rs 2,000 currency notes: Folding or unfolding? click here

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Over the last year, NFT has been praised as a tool for revolutionizing the entertainment, music, and gaming industries. Indians have participated in this technology to see if it is an insane attempt to become a crucial component of the digital age for the future? or is it just a passing fad? We decode whether is NFT losing its steam in India? How do NFT collectors and artists are keeping this space alive? Is there any taxation or legal system around it? 

Apoorva Mittal speaks to:

• Cyber Shakti, NFT Artist and Entrepreneur to understand the NFT as an art; 
• Ramesh Gopal, Blockchain Developer and NFT Collector to hear how he landed Amitabh Bachchan's NFT; 
• Kameshwaran Elangovan, COO & Co-Founder - Guardianlink to explore how his company turned NFT into in-game assets and 
• Ankit Wadhwa, Co-founder and CEO - RARIO to understand how NFT operators are sustaining in the current market

Credits: Jensen Tung, CoinDesk, NDTV and Oneindia Hindi, 

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Almost all of us have been at the receiving end of incessant WhatsApp calls, texts and videos from anonymous international numbers in the last couple of months. They come from across the world-Indonesia to Vietnam, Malaysia to Kenya—with job offers, money-making opportunities, or lurid invites and compromising videos.

Why have the calls increased so much? Who’s behind them? How are they using WhatsApp business accounts so easily? How big and dangerous is the con? What legal recourse do you and I have? And can WhatsApp afford this menace in its biggest market with a user base of 488 million? 

In this episode of The Morning Brief, host Dia Rekhi unravels the scam by talking to:

• Sachin Taparia, Chairman and Founder of LocalCircles about the results of the recent survey on this issue
• Kanishk Gaur, Cyber Security Expert on all the whys and hows of a WhatsApp scam

Credits: WhatsApp

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Pakistan is on the brink of bankruptcy and a civil war. With less than a month of reserves to continue importing fuel and food, Pakistan is at dire risk, with the highest inflation and the second lowest economic growth among 46 Asian nations. With the IMF playing hardball, what is the endgame for its economy?  Host Kiran Somvanshi talks to S. Akbar Zaidi, Executive Director of the Institute of Business Administration, Shahbaz Rana, Economic Correspondent, The Express Tribune. Anchorperson at Express News. and Pranabdhal Samantha, Associate Executive Editor, The Economic Times.

Credit: DW News, Al Jazeera English, WION

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ONDC (Open Network for Digital Commerce) is being touted as the government’s next big digital initiative after UPI (Unified Payments Interface). The ambitious open-source network aims to connect all buyers and sellers in the e-com space and to more than treble the country’s e-commerce penetration to 25% of its 1.4 billion population. ONDC has recently been part of the internet chatter for the discounts on online food delivery that is massively undercutting Swiggy and Zomato. Are the discounts sustainable? Who’s funding them? Will more people take to this vast cluttered network? Is ONDC here to stay? 

Anirban Chowdhury and Mugdha Variyar speak to: 

• T Koshy, CEO, ONDC to understand the potential and the next big plans of the platforms. 
• Anshoo Sharma, Co-Founder & CEO of magicpin 

Credits: NDTV, Aaj Tak, India Today, Money Control

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