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Time of India
2 days ago
- Time of India
I see, I hear, I speak, I read
Malaya Rout works as Director of Data Science with Exafluence in Chennai. He is an alumnus of IIM Calcutta. He has worked with TCS, LatentView Analytics and Verizon prior to the role at Exafluence. He takes pride in sharing his knowledge and insights on diverse topics of Data Science with colleagues and aspiring data scientists. LESS ... MORE I am amused at how we have started referring to traditional AIML as 'traditional'. I am equally amazed at the presence of 'traditional' LLMs. How fast do you want us to move? The so-called traditional LLMs are entirely text-based. The not-so-traditional LLMs are multimodal by nature. They handle images, videos, audio, as well as textual inputs and outputs. When you ask an LLM to write a poem for you and it generates a creatively crafted poem, that's unimodal (It's called a text-only LLM. Unimodal is technically correct). When you upload an image and ask the LLM to identify whether a person is in the image, that's multimodal (the output is text). When you upload a picture and ask the LLM to change the background from red to yellow, and the LLM returns the required image, that's multimodal (the output is an image). When you instruct the LLM to create a specific image for you, that's multimodal (the output is an image). Instead of an image, using audio or video is also a multimodal approach. Encoders take text, images, and audio and transform them into a mathematical format that the AI can understand. This is akin to translating everything into a common language. The fusion module utilises an input projector to integrate all the various types of processed information into a single, unified representation. The numeric representation of a cat's image, the numeric representation of the word 'cat', the numeric representation of the sound of saying 'cat', and that of the description of what a cat does are all related. A multimodal LLM is closer to reality than a unimodal LLM. Human beings deal with multimodality in their day-to-day lives. The context provided to and extracted from a multimodal large language model (LLM) is richer. The downside? Yes, multimodality requires intensive computing to process different types of data. We immediately notice the difference in inferencing speeds when using text only versus multimodal inputs and outputs. I would think twice before uploading a three-minute video onto a paid API LLM service and asking to explain what the LLM sees in the video. I would reach my innocent credit limits in no time. I would be more eager to do the same through an open-source, locally downloaded large language model (LLM). Multimodal large language models (LLMs) are widely used in various applications. For example, they are used in content moderation. They are used to flag off plagiarism, explicit content, toxic content, self-harm and drug use, graphic terrorism, racial abuse, bad gestures, legal compliance issues, political preferences, and Personal Identifiable Information (PII). Multimodal LLMs can also be utilised to build chatbots that can answer questions related to a repository of videos, audio, or text. For example, the user might like the bot to summarise videos, or determine the presence or absence of something specific that the user is interested in. The bot can automatically take you to the exact position in the artefact that contains the object of interest. They can be used to help health professionals diagnose abnormalities in reports, X-rays, and other medical imaging techniques. They can be used in highly creative areas such as music composition and video editing. While we stand at this juncture of technical advancement, multimodality takes us toward more human-like artificial intelligence. The shift from text-only to multimodal large language models (LLMs) is often underestimated. The shift has made AI more human-like by embodying a rich interplay of sight, sound, and language. Can I say that here we have an AI that thinks, sees, hears, speaks, and reads? Haven't we moved multiple steps closer to AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) with this? Think about it. Don't delegate all your thinking to AI, because we don't want the only sharp brain to be the AI's. Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Disclaimer Views expressed above are the author's own.
Mint
2 days ago
- Business
- Mint
QS MBA Rankings 2025: IIM Bangalore leads India's Business schools, IIM Ahmedabad takes 2nd spot — Full list here
In the QS MBA Rankings 2025, Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore emerged as the leading institution across India offering world class postgraduate education. India has notably emerged as an important player in global management education as the infamous Master of Business Administration programme of IIM Bangalore secured an overall QS score of 67.4. In the QS Global MBA Rankings 2025, IIM Bangalore secured 53rd place worldwide. IIM Ahmedabad and IIM Calcutta, which claimed second and fourth spots among the top-ranked Indian B-schools, occupied 60th and 65th ranks, respectively. Joining the top 100 list is the Indian School of Business (ISB) Hyderabad, which was placed at 86th spot globally. Other notable institutions featured in the top-ranked Indian B-school list are: IIM Bangalore: Ranked 1st in India and 53rd globally. IIM Ahmedabad: Ranked 2nd in India and 60th globally. IIM Calcutta: Ranked 3rd in India and 65th globally. ISB Hyderabad: Ranked 4th in India and 86th globally. IIM Kozhikode: Ranked 5th in India and 151-200 globally IIM Indore: Ranked 6th in India and 201-250 globally XLRI-Xavier School of Management, IIM Lucknow and IIM Udaipur: Ranked 201-250 globally United States' Universities dominated this year's QS Global MBA Rankings, with Stanford Graduate School of Business securing top position. Pennsylvania's The Wharton School took the second spot, while Harvard Business School occupied third rank. Given below is the list of top-ranked Business schools across the world: Stanford Graduate School of Business: (US) The Wharton School: (US) Harvard Business School: (US) MIT Sloan School of Management: (US) London Business School: (UK) HEC Paris: (France) Cambridge Judge Business School: (UK) Columbia Business School: (US) IE Business School: (Spain) IESE Business School: (Spain) The QS University rankings use a number of key parameters to evaluate and assess institutions' performance globally. Careful analysis of key guiding factors such as student experience, global partnerships, research opportunities and the quality of teaching, determines the global and region-wise ranking.
Hindustan Times
3 days ago
- Business
- Hindustan Times
Advance your career with IIM Calcutta's Executive Programme in Human Resource Management. Apply now to lead
As businesses adapt to digital change, global talent pool and hybrid work, HR professionals must take on tactical roles. According to Gartner's 2024 HR Leaders Survey, 59% of organisations plan to boost investment in manager development. This highlights the crucial role of HR managers in shaping strong leadership, supporting transformation, and ensuring managers are prepared for the challenges of hybrid work, global teams, and rapid digital disruption. IIM Calcutta's Executive Programme in HR Management is uniquely positioned to help you build strong leadership, analytical and decisive skills to manage today's workforce challenges and support your organisation's growth and transformation. Taught by top IIM Calcutta faculty, this modern programme helps you understand HRM through a customer-focused lens—covering hiring, retention, skills mapping, job roles, and HR data insights. So, what makes this IIM HR course stand out? IIM Calcutta's EPHRM helps HR professionals become leaders, using data-driven methods, practical frameworks, and global insights to lead talent-focussed business transformation in today's fast-changing work environment. Explore the key details of the IIMC executive programme, designed to boost your HR expertise and advance your career. Live online video lectures: You can attend interactive sessions from anywhere, gaining real-time insights from experienced faculty without relocating or pausing your career. Assignments: You will apply your learning through practical tasks that reinforce concepts and build your confidence in real HR scenarios. Learning and networking with peers: You'll collaborate with professionals from diverse industries, expanding your perspective and building a valuable professional network. Executive education alumni status: You gain lifelong access to alumni privileges, networking events, and exclusive learning resources from a prestigious institution. Real-world case studies/examples: You learn from actual business challenges, enhancing your problem-solving skills and prudent HR decision-making abilities. 4-day campus immersion: You'll experience on-campus learning, interact face-to-face with faculty and peers, and engage in intensive, hands-on sessions. Learn from future-ready HR modules: You stay ahead with modules focused on emerging HR trends and technologies shaping the future workplace. Get an overview of this IIM Calcutta programme's curriculum designed to build future-ready HR of human resource management: You will explore core HR functions like recruitment, training, performance management, and employee engagement in today's workplace. Basics of organisational behaviour: Understand how people behave in organisations and learn how to manage motivation, communication, and team dynamics effectively. Contemporary talent management: Learn how to attract, develop, and retain talent using modern tools and techniques aligned with business needs. Strategic HRM (SHRM): Discover how to align HR strategies with business goals to improve performance and build a competitive workforce . General management: Build a broader business perspective with key concepts in finance, marketing, and operations for informed HR decisions. Contemporary HRM issues: Understand current HR issues, including diversity and inclusion, HR analytics, and new forms of work. Campus visit module: Participate in an on-campus learning experience with hands-on sessions, peer interaction, and faculty engagement. Offered by the prestigious IIM Calcutta, this programme gives your HR career a powerful edge. The curriculum is thoughtfully crafted to meet current industry demands. You gain real-world knowledge, expert insights, and valuable connections. Designed to build thinking, it prepares you to lead with confidence. Master key HR concepts from individual behaviour to organisational culture, while learning to tackle modern challenges through analytics, innovation, and strategy, people-focused practices that drive business success. Whether you're a student or a professional, this course sets you apart in the HR field. This programme helps mid-career professionals and line managers enhance people management skills. Senior practitioners also gain by learning to apply human-centric strategies for real-world HR challenges and meaningful use of human capital. Starts on: June 28, 2025 Duration: 1 Year Programme fee: ₹3,60,000 + GST Application fee: INR 2,000 + GST Eligibility: Working Professionals with 2+ years of work experience About Emeritus Emeritus offers customised and open programmes in India, Singapore, Dubai, and other global locations in collaboration with IIM Lucknow Executive Education, IIM Calcutta Executive Education, ISB Executive Education, Harvard Business School (HBS), MIT Sloan, Columbia Business School, Kellogg Executive Education, Berkeley Executive Education, and Wharton Executive Education, amongst other leading Institutions. Our world-class executive education programs, facilitated by eminent program experts, provide an immersive learning experience integrated with actionable insights and practical business applications and are delivered in a range of formats; in-class, online, as well as blended programs. The Emeritus Group has more than 1,750 employees globally and offices in Mumbai, New Delhi, Shanghai, Singapore, Palo Alto, Mexico City, New York, Boston, London, and Dubai. The company is backed by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Leeds Illuminate, Prosus Ventures, GSV Ventures, Peak XV, Bertelsmann, CPPIB, Accel and SoftBank Vision Fund 2. For more information, please visit Disclaimer: This article is written on behalf of Emeritus, service provider for IIM Calcutta.
Time of India
13-06-2025
- Business
- Time of India
Giving up?
Malaya Rout works as Director of Data Science with Exafluence in Chennai. He is an alumnus of IIM Calcutta. He has worked with TCS, LatentView Analytics and Verizon prior to the role at Exafluence. He takes pride in sharing his knowledge and insights on diverse topics of Data Science with colleagues and aspiring data scientists. LESS ... MORE Sahil was learning to walk. He took tiny steps while trying to balance his cute little body. He was born to Sanjay and Saundarya thirteen months ago. Sahil meant the whole world to them. Theirs was a lower-middle-class family. Sometimes, finances, or rather the lack of them, gave the family a hard time. Sanjay was the manager of a shoe shop in Chennai. It was a good business. It paid enough for Sanjay and his employer. The salary was weekly. Enough for the livelihood of the two families. The shop had remained closed for the last four weeks due to the nationwide lockdown aimed at limiting the spread of COVID-19 in the country. Hence, there were no sales for a month. There were no sales for a month even before the lockdown was announced. That might be due to a decline in demand. Lockdown came at the wrong time for Sanjay. He had not left his house in the last three weeks. Saundarya went out a couple of times for vegetables and groceries. Things grew worrisome for the family. They ran out of their cash reserve. There was no clarity on whether the lockdown would be extended for a second time. It was already extended once. People guessed that the spread of infection would be under control only after four or five months. The immediate future didn't look promising to Sanjay. The fear weighed heavily on him. He had grown increasingly silent and thoughtful with each passing day. Of the two, Saundarya was usually more confident. It might be because she didn't fully understand the extent of the COVID-19 pandemic's impact. Last night, they fed Sahil dinner. Sanjay and Saundarya had to go to bed on an empty stomach. This morning, Sanjay had gone crazy arranging breakfast for their toddler and themselves. He couldn't manage. He called up his employer, frantically asking for help. Things there were not as bad as in Sanjay's family. However, things were not great, either. His boss had helped him with money several times in the past. That morning, he couldn't. Thoughts of him coming out of the crisis ran obsessively in Sanjay's head. They troubled him and made him more thoughtful. It was a vicious cycle. The lack of nutrition didn't help his mind. He picked up his mobile phone and an empty wallet and stormed out of the house. 'Will the world know me as a failure. Will I be able to face society? Will I be remembered as the one who couldn't feed his family?' Many such worries created havoc inside his head. He has been walking for 30 minutes now along smaller streets. At times, he was walking along broader and longer roads. He didn't know where he was going. He didn't know what he was up to. He didn't know whether he wanted to live this life at all. He turned left and went inside a four-story building. It looked like an office space deserted due to the lockdown. Places and structures, which would otherwise be crowded, gave a deserted and there-is-no-tomorrow look. Sanjay started climbing the stairs absent-mindedly. 'This is it. This is how it will end. Thank you, God, for the 33 years. Sorry, Saundarya, and sorry, Sahil.' He thought. By the time he reached the fourth floor, he was tired. He didn't climb further. He walked towards the edge and stood motionless. 'Everything is empty. Everything is void. Everything is oblivious.' He murmured. Just while he was gathering all the courage to jump off the building, his phone rang. He picked up the call. 'Sanjay, I have some good news for you. As part of the Indian government's efforts to support people in need during the lockdown, your family has been awarded 50,000 rupees. You give me your Aadhaar number, please'. Finally, a ray of hope and life ran through his body. God must have listened to his prayers. He hurriedly took out his wallet to read the Aadhaar number. As he started to read it out to the person over the phone, he lost his balance and fell down the building. The phone line was on. It dropped around six meters away from the body. He was holding the wallet tightly in his right hand. The body was motionless and showed no signs of pain or struggle. There was nobody around. In some sense, the above story tells us what we should not do. One in four Gen AI projects fail (I know that giving up on projects and giving up on life are not comparable). Setbacks shouldn't signal surrender but rather strategic recalibration. Organisations that celebrate failures as learning opportunities cultivate cultures of experimentation, which ultimately drive innovation. Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Disclaimer Views expressed above are the author's own.
India Today
10-06-2025
- Business
- India Today
IIM Calcutta, Emeritus, launch AI-based strategic marketing course for professionals
IIM Calcutta, in partnership with Emeritus, has launched a new executive education programme called Strategic Marketing for Leaders: Leveraging AI for Growth. The course is designed to help professionals apply AI and data analytics in strategic 18-week programme is fully online and combines recorded video lectures with live sessions conducted by Prof. Saravana Jaikumar of IIM Calcutta. Learners will explore case studies from brands like Nike, Apple, and Southwest capstone project and interactive simulations are also included. Participants may attend a one-day networking event at the IIM Calcutta YOU WILL LEARN IN THE ONLINE AI COURSEGenerative AI applications in marketingPredictive analyticsOmnichannel strategyBranding, pricing, performance marketing, and customer journey mappingThe course helps professionals combine classic marketing tools with modern AI technologies to manage marketing in a fast-changing CAN APPLY?The course is open to:Graduates and diploma holders (minimum 10+2+3)Mid- to senior-level professionals in marketing, digital strategy, business development, and consultingProfessionals from sectors like retail, FMCG, technology, e-commerce, and mediaINDUSTRY DEMAND FOR AI SKILLSThe course responds to rising demand for AI-skilled marketers. A PwC survey reports that 70% of Indian CEOs expect Generative AI to reshape marketing. An EY report also shows 71% of retailers plan to adopt it in the next to Avnish Singhal of Emeritus, this programme equips professionals to lead marketing with both strategic insight and AI expertise.
