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The lines between search engines and AI chatbots can often seem a bit blurry. Query a search engine and you will get a list of websites. Of course, you will get direct answers for basic maths problems or if you ask a search engine what time it is. Beyond that it’s up to us to evaluate the quality of information provided by the websites listed by the search engine.
AI chatbots on the other hand seem to provide answers directly in a conversational mode using natural language. They seem authoritative but as we’ve discussed in this newsletter earlier, what seems like authoritative may in fact be a hallucination. Here’s an example—an avid bird watcher and CEO of a firm working on AI apps told me last week about ‘Vijayan’s bulbul.’ It seems bird watchers in India were perplexed when AI chatbots started describing ‘Vijayan’s bulbul’ supposedly an extinct Indian bird. While there are many Vijayans in South India, this specific bird variety is even more numerous, but most importantly, there is no ‘Vijayan’s bulbul.’ Some web page somewhere may well have a reference to a Vijayan and a bulbul and AI chatbots have not just hallucinated to create a species of bulbul but also declared it extinct.
So, if you are helping your child with her school project on Indian birds and are using AI to take a shortcut, you may want to check the sources yourself.
The danger of this happening is far lower though with corporate AI implementations, because these systems work on tighter database models. Imagine the havoc that would be wreaked if airline AI-driven chatbots start hallucinating about non-existent flights and so on. Both of India’s major airlines—IndiGo and Air India—feature AI-driven chatbots that are moving towards agentic AI. According to Salesforce, “If a chatbot is akin to a vending machine, an AI agent is like a personal chef with an impressive repertoire of recipes (vast knowledge base), an ability to understand complex dish requests (natural language processing) and can learn new meals that adapt to your preferences (ability to learn from historical data).”
Agentic AI will be one of the biggest AI trends in 2025. Giants like Big Blue see the potential here as businesses race to build agentic AI capabilities and we have a story this week on how IBM is launching new AI integration services to meet demand. Every large enterprise vendor is talking agentic AI.
Meanwhile here are the top AI stories from the week gone by:
Nvidia Gives ‘Underwhelming’ Report After Two Years Of Blowouts
Gen AI Can Revolutionise Pharma In India, But It's Not Quite That Simple, Says EY
DeepSeek Reopens Access to AI Model as Chinese Rivalry Escalates
Move Over Google Chrome, AI-Boosted Perplexity Comet Is Coming - Watch Teaser; Company Hiring Now
Microsoft Dropped Some AI Data Center Leases, TD Cowen Says
India Leading In AI Adoption And Governance: FM Nirmala Sitharaman
India Inc Needs To Double Tech Spend To Ride AI Wave, Says Fractal AI CEO
Till next week,
-Ivor Soans
Welcome to Beyond Tomorrow!
Beyond Tomorrow is our weekly newsletter crafted to keep you at the forefront of AI advancement. Every week, we’ll bring you a round-up of the most impactful AI stories, highlight how they shape our world, and provide insights into what’s next in the ever-evolving AI landscape.
If you’d like to receive Beyond Tomorrow in your inbox every week, click here to subscribe.
The lines between search engines and AI chatbots can often seem a bit blurry. Query a search engine and you will get a list of websites. Of course, you will get direct answers for basic maths problems or if you ask a search engine what time it is. Beyond that it’s up to us to evaluate the quality of information provided by the websites listed by the search engine.
AI chatbots on the other hand seem to provide answers directly in a conversational mode using natural language. They seem authoritative but as we’ve discussed in this newsletter earlier, what seems like authoritative may in fact be a hallucination. Here’s an example—an avid bird watcher and CEO of a firm working on AI apps told me last week about ‘Vijayan’s bulbul.’ It seems bird watchers in India were perplexed when AI chatbots started describing ‘Vijayan’s bulbul’ supposedly an extinct Indian bird. While there are many Vijayans in South India, this specific bird variety is even more numerous, but most importantly, there is no ‘Vijayan’s bulbul.’ Some web page somewhere may well have a reference to a Vijayan and a bulbul and AI chatbots have not just hallucinated to create a species of bulbul but also declared it extinct.
So, if you are helping your child with her school project on Indian birds and are using AI to take a shortcut, you may want to check the sources yourself.
The danger of this happening is far lower though with corporate AI implementations, because these systems work on tighter database models. Imagine the havoc that would be wreaked if airline AI-driven chatbots start hallucinating about non-existent flights and so on. Both of India’s major airlines—IndiGo and Air India—feature AI-driven chatbots that are moving towards agentic AI. According to Salesforce, “If a chatbot is akin to a vending machine, an AI agent is like a personal chef with an impressive repertoire of recipes (vast knowledge base), an ability to understand complex dish requests (natural language processing) and can learn new meals that adapt to your preferences (ability to learn from historical data).”
Agentic AI will be one of the biggest AI trends in 2025. Giants like Big Blue see the potential here as businesses race to build agentic AI capabilities and we have a story this week on how IBM is launching new AI integration services to meet demand. Every large enterprise vendor is talking agentic AI.
Meanwhile here are the top AI stories from the week gone by:
Till next week,
-Ivor Soans
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