Surajit Ghosh

So I went to engineering college.

Everything is rule-based.

Everything is based on a formula, a physical equation.

AI is something different because it's based on data and statistics.

It never gives you a clear answer.

It gives you a probability.

And I just thought this is very interesting because if you're trying to solve a problem, you don't know exactly how to solve it.

There is no equation.

How do you get around that?

I think that's where AI comes in.

It finds those patterns within data and comes up with some prediction.

That intrigued me.

So this is what year that you start dabbling?

I started dabbling, let's call it dabbling in AI was 2002.

So it's almost 24 years ago.

I think it was very relevant.

Because the way I see it, should I have skipped all the foundations that I learned over the years and just gone to the current state?

Maybe, but when I look back, I think that foundation really helped me because back then, and surprisingly, by the way, neural networks, when I talk about that, it's still very valid and relevant within AI.

The entire foundation is neural networks.

So I think that foundation really helped.