Sramana Mitra: And what are you seeing on the BPO side? BPO is the lowest hanging fruit for AI to automate. This discussion that we just had applies very well to BPO, right? You can automate a very large part of what is being done in a human BPO mode. A lot of that can be AI enabled, but it can still continue to be in this do-it-for-me (DIFM) mode.
So are you seeing whole BPO workflows turning to AI companies?
>>>Sramana Mitra: That’s yet another nuance on it. That is basically developing, having AI platforms, AI technology tools, and then developing solutions for people. So that’s more of a traditional solution services companies that are now AI enabled solution services.
>>>Sramana Mitra: Okay. The reason I’m asking this question Gaurav is, so as you know, AI is easier to control in a more constrained mode. The more degrees of freedom you give it, the more it is difficult to control all the issues like hallucination and precision. AI has a tendency to make things up and go a little bit haywire. I’m very curious about what is going to happen when this is actually operating in real world scenarios and how are they constraining?
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Gaurav Chaturvedi, Partner at Kae Capital, discusses the trends he is seeing in the Indian startup ecosystem.
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Sramana Mitra: So what of platforms and this euphoria – this absurd amounts of funding that are going into a handful of very large platform companies? How do you analyze them? I can understand that you don’t want to invest in them.
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