His mother had always wanted him to attend IIT Madras, Mr. Srinivas revealed.
On Nikhil Kamath’s WTF Online show, Aravind Srinivas, co-founder of Perplexity, talked about his work and personal life, including his early influences, his time in Bengaluru, and his eventual venture into artificial intelligence.
His mother had always wanted him to attend IIT Madras, Mr. Srinivas revealed.
‘This is where you’re going to study,’ my mother would say whenever we passed the IIT Madras campus on a bus. It was an expectation, not even a suggestion,” he recounted.
Mr. Srinivas acknowledged that he hardly ventured out of his three-week internship in Bengaluru, preferring to remain indoors. He blamed the notorious traffic in Bengaluru for this choice.
“I think I was in this place called Koramangala… but I didn’t really explore,” stated the man. “I simply worked the whole time. Upon reflection, I probably ought to have.
Nevertheless, given the traffic in the city, he had no regrets. far then, the traffic was terrible, and from what I’ve heard, it’s far worse now. Therefore, remaining home and working was most likely the wise decision,” he continued.
On the Effects of AI: Endless Opportunities and Significant Upheavals
In his discussion of AI’s revolutionary potential later in the podcast, Mr. Srinivas made the prediction that AI-powered personal assistants will eventually catch up to smartphones in popularity. Everyone will be able to create and modify their own AI tools, he thinks.
He cautioned of significant disruptions, though.
In the short term, much employment will be lost, which is the dystopian aspect. It takes fewer workers to do the same amount of labor. There will be a significant impact from the next generation of graduates joining the workforce and the layoffs by large IT businesses,” he said.
Those that embrace and incorporate AI into their work will prosper, while others run the risk of falling behind, Mr. Srinivas underlined as tech companies reduce employment and slow hiring.
