Omicron might dent growth, but the long-term outlook seems promising

Integrated biometric-enabled frameworks for real-time test results, travel details and vaccine status are key to making air travel safe

An aircraft has three critical phases; induction, in-service and redelivery

How will Tata Sons turn around all the airlines under its fold, except maybe the Kochi-based Air India Express?

Ukraine-Russia conflict to result in the steep escalation of aircraft leasing charges

If an aircraft’s engine fails, the pilot has nearly half an hour to find a landing spot

The pandemic laid bare fault-lines within India’s airlines

Key reasons behind the move include rising fuel prices, rupee’s weakness and losses incurred due to the pandemic 

The solution demands a comprehensive expansion of airside capacity across the country, but that has not materialised

Post pandemic, the airlines must revamp strategies and resort to long-term measures to recover from the crisis 

It may be time to revisit RASK, CASK metrics; benchmarking based on cost drivers can boost an airline’s performance

Container carriers launch freighters to offer integrated services and expand their transport offerings

India’s air cargo industry is well positioned to scale up further, thanks to a strong airport cargo infrastructure

The Facebook-owner currently relies on Google and Bing search engines to give users answers on news, stocks and sports

The app has also added other changes in the interface so users can organise their chats better

Google is still thriving while the company navigates through a pivotal shift to artificial intelligence and battles regulators trying to topple its internet empire

Google is changing the way its Google Local Services ads work, which could affect millions of small businesses

OpenAI is launching a ChatGPT-powered search engine that could put the artificial intelligence company in direct competition with search giant Google

ChatBIT was fine-tuned and "optimised for dialogue and question-answering tasks in the military field", the paper said

Chennai accounted for nearly 21% of the non-vaccinated children, highlighting the gaps in an urban area and the need for targeted community outreach

India needs to continue efforts to maintain its polio-free status, and AFP surveillance has to remain a cornerstone of its strategy

While the eSanjeevani numbers are impressive, doctors and experts point out that unless a number of systemic issues -- including low doctor numbers on the platform are fixed -- telemedicine in the country will not be able to move past infancy

Additionally, about 1.7 million new cardiovascular disease cases and 7,00,000 new chronic kidney disease cases could be prevented compared to current practices, the study said

Breast density matters because of two main reasons: it may make it harder to detect signs of cancer on a mammogram, and it is linked with an increased risk of breast cancer

The list reconfirms longstanding priorities for vaccine research and development: HIV, malaria, and tuberculosis -- three diseases that collectively kill nearly 2.5 million people each year

'He did some great work and people remember him from so many things, but he should have got some stronger parts.'

'Being disciplined is also very important.'

Sailaja’s Kuchipudi recital in New Delhi was a triumph of understatement.

Finding similarities between cooking and dance, noted Kathak exponent Deepak Maharaj says both must come from the heart

The Thimphu Tshechu in Bhutan, offers a spiritual uplift through dance.

In her passing, Mohiniyattam has lost a crusader who widened its repertoire and gave it a new aesthetics rooted in Kerala

Companies are using new techniques to enhance competitive advantage

Given our management curriculum’s focus on Western business processes and practices, managers need to be groomed to work with family-managed firms

The real value of an MBA cannot be ascertained based on considerations of either the first paycheque or the graduate making the C-suite

Such an environment brings great value to the organisation and its employees

Technology is transforming finance functions — and the finance executive

Is there a demand-supply mismatch? Why is the government planning to offload buffer stocks? 

The decision was informed by Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur after the Cabinet meeting

What are the measures the government is taking to bring down the increasing price of rice?

BKS terms the government’s attitude towards farmers’ demands “regrettable”; seeks MSPs, abolition of GST on agri inputs, and increase in Kisan Samman Nidhi income support payments for farmers

Union Minister for Food and Consumer Affairs Pralhad Joshi has announced that States can buy rice from the Food Corporation of India at ₹2,800/quintal without participating in e-auction.  

A source of corruption and environmental degradation. Rod Harbinson reports.

Since launching the Ask Luke feature on this site last year, we've added the ability for the system to respond to questions about product design by citing articles, videos, audio, and PDFs. Now we're introducing the ability to cite the thousands of images I've created over the years and reference them directly in answers.

Significant improvements in AI vision models have given us the ability to quickly and easily describe visual content. I recently outlined how we used this capability to index the content of PDF pages in more depth making individual PDF pages a much better source of content in the Ask Luke corpus.

We applied the same process and pipeline to the thousands of images I've created for articles and presentations over the years. Essentially, each image on my Website gets parsed by a vision model and we add the resulting text-based description to the set of content we can use to answer people's design questions. Here's an example of the kinds of descriptions we're creating. As you can see, the descriptions can get pretty detailed when needed.

If someone asks a question where an image is a key part of the answer, our replies not only return streaming text and citations but inline images as well. In this question asking about Amazon's design changes over the years, multiple images are included directly in the response.

Not only are images displayed where relevant, the answer refers to them and often refers to the contents of the image. In the same Amazon navigation example, the answer refers to the green and white color scheme of the image in addition to its contents.

Now that we've got citations and images steaming inline in Ask Luke responses, perhaps adding inline videos and audio files queued to relevant timestamps might be next? We're already integrating those in the conversational UI so why not... AI is a hell of a drug.

Further Reading

Additional articles about what I've tried and learned by rethinking the design and development of my Website using large-scale AI models.

• New Ways into Web Content: rethinking how to design software with AI
• Integrated Audio Experiences & Memory: enabling specific content experiences
• Expanding Conversational User Interfaces: extending chat user interfaces
• Integrated Video Experiences: adding video experiences to conversational UI
• Integrated PDF Experiences: unique considerations when adding PDF experiences
• Dynamic Preview Cards: improving how generated answers are shared
• Text Generation Differences: testing the impact of AI new models
• PDF Parsing with Vision Models: using AI vision models to extract PDF contents
• Streaming Citations: citing relevant articles, videos, PDFs, etc. in real-time
• Streaming Inline Images: indexing & displaying relevant images in answers

Acknowledgments

Big thanks to Sidharth Lakshmanan and Sam Breed for the development help.

Exhibition: 20 Apr 2018 - 21 Apr 2018, NEC, Birmingham, United Kingdom.

Australia’s new five-storey Rubik’s cube-inspired structure is a visual and sensory experience, complete with gnomes, tinsel curtains and a mist room.

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