Cognixia Podcast

Hello everyone, and welcome back to the Cognixia podcast . The ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup is in full swing in India, packed with nail-biting action and some stellar performances by different cricketers and teams. For all of us at home, watching the matches on our televisions, laptops, tablets, and mobile phones, our match-viewing experience has been significantly enhanced in recent times. We can...

Hello everyone and welcome back to the Cognixia podcast . To understand what large language models are, we first need to understand what transformer models are. As a human, we see the text as one word at a time and comprehend it accordingly, whereas machines see the text as just a bunch of characters. Machines were usually unable to interpret text like human beings can. However, this began changin...

Hello everyone, and welcome back to the Cognixia podcast . With the Search Generative Experience, Google is bringing the power of Generative AI to its search platform to offer its users new ways of finding, visualizing, and creating content. In a recent blog post, Google said, “Search has long been a place where you can find information to help with life’s questions – whether they are big or small...

Hello everyone and welcome back to the Cognixia podcast . Twenty years ago, Dan Brown published his world-renowned book – the Da Vinci Code. Three years later, a film adapted from it with the same title starring Tom Hanks was released worldwide. The book and the movie both, were super interesting, and make for a great read and a great watch even today. The story takes the viewers and readers throu...

Hello everyone and welcome back to the Cognixia podcast . The important aspects of project management, that is, conflict management. A project runs on the back of the efforts of its people. These people come from different backgrounds, different teams, different disciplines, and different ideologies, and are required to work together for the success of the project. Often, these people may have nev...

Hello everyone, and welcome back to the Cognixia podcast . First, let us understand what bioengineering is. Bioengineering is the application of the principles and design concepts of engineering to the study & manipulation of biological systems and the development of biological products. It is a broad field of study that includes a very wide range of disciplines from biomedical engineering to...

Hello everyone and welcome back to the Cognixia podcast . This week, we talk about something that the entire nation came together to celebrate – the Chandrayaan-3. Chandrayaan-3 is the Indian lunar exploration mission under the Indian Space Research Organization’s Chandrayaan program. The Chandrayaan-3 had a lander named Vikram and a rover named Pragyan, very similar to the previous edition of the...

Hello everyone and welcome back to the Cognixia podcast . what is data hoarding. Data hoarding is the excessive collection and retention of data. It is also sometimes referred to as digital hoarding. It is a growing challenge in the tech space. Countless organizations have a field time keeping on purchasing more and more storage space to accommodate the growing amount of data. Not just structured...

welcome back to the Cognixia podcast. What is digital trust. According to the World Economic Forum, digital trust is an individual’s expectation that digital technologies and services, as well as the organizations that provide them, would protect the interests of the stakeholders, and do their bit to uphold societal expectations & values. Now, we agree, that that is a very heavy definition. Le...

Hello everyone, and welcome back to the Cognixia podcast . Google has reported that it will leverage artificial intelligence for several online safety features and share insights with users about whether the information they are seeing could have been posted on the dark web. Google made this announcement at the Google I/O Conference. What are these new features and how are they going to use artifi...

Hello everyone and welcome back to the Cognixia podcast . we are going to talk about a new programming language that is becoming incredibly popular among AI developers, the language is a perfect fit for working with artificial intelligence, it is very simple and user-friendly like Python, and it is as quick as Rust, and has the performance and control like C++. Now, let’s take a second to just app...

If you have been keeping up with the news recently, then you would surely have heard about how OpenAI, the company that created the world-famous generative AI tool – ChatGPT is on the verge of bankruptcy and how it is burning cash every day to keep the tool going. And, if you didn’t know that already, now you do. According to a report by Analytics India Magazine, OpenAI might go bankrupt by the en...

we talk about something that has now become more than a menace and is threatening both individuals as well as enterprises. At some point, we are sure you have heard about this technology, maybe in the newspapers, online portals, or your Google Discover feed. We are talking about ‘Deepfakes’. These deepfakes are becoming a huge threat to everyone. In this episode, we will cover what are deepfakes,...

The ITIL 4 certifications required to be updated only when a new update to the ITIL library was released. For instance, anybody with the ITIL v3 certification was required to take an ITIL 4 Managing Professionals exam after a short re-training to upgrade their credentials to ITIL 4. This way, once the library was updated, one could transition to the latest update to keep their credentials current....

The Scrum Product Owner is a stakeholder with a deep understanding of the product as well as the market. A Scrum Product Owner is responsible for the product backlog. A product backlog is a list of features and requirements for the product. The Scrum Product Owner ensures the product backlog is complete, accurate, and appropriately prioritized. Their role also involves working with the development...

Hello everyone, and welcome back to the Cognixia podcast . We are back with another interesting episode today. Every week, we get together to discuss a new topic from the world of emerging digital technologies – from new developments to hands-on guides, from things you should know to what you can do to embrace new tools and best practices, and so much more. Did you know that in 2022, the world spe...

This week, we talk about a very interesting topic in a space that is becoming increasingly popular all around the world – no code. ‘No code’ is a software development approach that requires the user to have little to no programming skills or experience to build an application. Using no-code tools, line of business employees who have the essential domain knowledge and institutional knowledge, while...

DDoS stands for Distributed Denial-of-Service. A DDoS attack is a malicious attempt to disrupt the normal traffic of a targeted server, service, or network by overwhelming the target and/or its surrounding infrastructure with a flood of internet traffic. DDoS attacks rely on multiple compromised computer systems for their effectiveness and the sources of their attack traffic. DDoS attacks compromi...

about how Netflix uses AWS to provide a seamless global service to its users around the world. Like most global businesses today, cloud computing is integral for Netflix to function. Netflix uses a wide range of AWS services to provide a seamless service to its users around the world. This includes Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute, Amazon Simple Storage Service, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon Rekognition,...

we talk about something that becomes quite a topic of conversation at this time of the year, each year - weather forecasts. Come monsoon, most of us keep a keen eye on the weather forecasts to get some idea of when it will rain and plan our trips, commutes, etc. If we are stuck at work and it starts raining badly, we check the weather forecast to see if the rains are going to stop anytime soon the...

We go back to something that has been a very happening topic for quite some time now - Generative AI bots. To be more specific, as the title would have already told you by now, in today’s episode we compare two of the most popular generative AI bots in the world right now – OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google Bard. Both are interactive conversational smart chatbots powered by principles of artificial inte...

Bard is Google’s public tool in the very highly competitive artificial intelligence chatbot space. Another popular player in this field, as we have mentioned before, is OpenAI’s ChatGPT . So, simply put, Google Bard is yet another artificial intelligence-powered chatbot in the market. It was launched in early 2023. Back then, it was an experiment that was fundamentally based on a conversational la...

We talk about a technology that we all are using to some extent in some form at work, at home, or even both. This has necessitated having an increasingly entrepreneurial workforce that is dynamic, more creative, more innovative, and more collaborative. According to a report by Automation Anywhere, about 95% of the people surveyed consider intelligent automation as a key component of their transfor...

Hello everyone and welcome to a fresh new episode of the Cognixia podcast . Every week, we come together to discuss something new from the world of emerging digital technologies and strive to inspire our listeners to learn something new and take the next big leap in their careers by ramping up their skills and knowledge. About two years back, an artist named Beeple sold an NFT-based artwork for a...

According to IBM, multi-cloud is the use of cloud services from two or more vendors, giving organizations more flexibility for optimizing performance, controlling costs, and leveraging the best cloud technologies available. It can be something as simple as using SaaS from different cloud vendors. However, in an enterprise setting, the multi-cloud would usually refer to running the enterprise appli...