Is human the new daddu?
n 2008, Ogilvy & Mather India made a one-minute film for Perfetti's Mentos.
Welcome to Minus Hype, where we simplify AI by cutting through the jargon and the complex math. If AI ever felt like a secret code, we're your friendly translators. The aim is to make anything AI feel as clear and comfortable as your grandma's cookie recipe. Minus the calories, plus all the geeky goodness.
n 2008, Ogilvy & Mather India made a one-minute film for Perfetti's Mentos.
Intelligence is the most misused or abused word of the decade. Here are few AI achievements:
Every past due call ends with two things. A promise, and a date.
I am an outstanding cook. I cook for 20 people easily. Every dish, my hand. Every plate, my taste. Twenty guests, one kitchen, one cook. It works.
Every year, for the last 14 years, we have been going to Tadoba, our happy place .Tigers are why we go there.
The reason is not economics. The contact center industry is cost arbitrage.
Every enterprise sits on five types of data. Numbers, text, images, video, and voice. Four have mature industries around them.
A few days ago, someone said sales is random. Our CRO froze. He did not argue. He did not respond.
A friend of mine, sharp, senior, 25 years in consulting told me he can make an LLM write client deliverables in half the time.
You must be wondering, what has sambar to do with the N-dimensional space. Here's a question. You taste sambar. Mouth explodes with a variety of flavours.
Yesterday, I called ICICI Bank regarding an eKYC issue. I was greeted by an incredibly enthusiastic bot, as cheerful as a bulbul in spring.
Let us be honest. We missed the LLM boat. While the world raced to build the next trillion parameter text model, India watched from the sidelines.
The traditional definition of a BOT: Build – Operate -Transfer.
Three monkeys. Three truths. Centuries old. This is ideal. But we do not live in an ideal world. Do we?
Three sets of insights hide in every sales conversation, waiting to be found. They explain why one sales executive closes the deal while another does not.
You are at a gathering. You meet someone new. A conversation begins. Nothing formal. Just two people talking. As minutes pass, something quiet happens. You form impressions.
Voice bots reduce costs. They handle routine queries. They improve efficiency metrics. They are excellent at operational plumbing.
At our age, people expect you to fund startups. Not pitch them. But here is the thing: We are not building a voice intelligence company despite being 50+. We are building it because of it.
Muhammad Ali once said: Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. In the fast-moving ring of Artificial Intelligence, enterprises are floating through innovation, only to be stung painfully—by the rapid evolution of AI models.