AI Forward

As AI moves from its centralised, expensive early phase into mass diffusion, I see enterprises facing a structural reckoning: processing millions of inference calls against frontier large language models is no longer just a technology choice — it is a capital allocation decision with material consequences for margins and business model sustainability. I argue that Small Language Models are the eff...

In the early 1960s, when humanity still looked up at the stars with unfiltered wonder, Hanna-Barbera dreamed a world suspended between magic and machinery— The Jetsons . Born from the spark of a space-age imagination, the show stitched together flying cars, talking screens, and automated everything, long before such things seemed possible. It didn’t just guess at the future; it cast a spell over i...

In 2016, the world watched in awe as AlphaGo, an artificial intelligence program developed by Google DeepMind, defeated Lee Sedol, one of the greatest Go players in history. Go, a game of seemingly infinite complexity, had always been a bastion of human intuition and creativity — the one arena machines were thought unable to conquer. Yet in just five games, AlphaGo did more than win; it revealed a...

It’s the summer of 1956. On the quiet campus of Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, a small group of scientists gathered around chalkboards, buzzing with excitement. Their mission? To answer one of humanity’s boldest questions: Can machines think? That summer workshop, now known as the Dartmouth Conference, marked the official birth of artificial intelligence. It was here the very term “AI” was co...

Welcome to AI Forward — the podcast where we break down the world of artificial intelligence, one conversation at a time. I’m your host, Smriti Kirubanandan, and in each episode, we’ll explore the ideas, technologies, and people shaping the future of AI. Artificial Intelligence isn’t just one thing — it’s a collection of technologies working together to transform how we live, work, and connect. Fr...