Surajit Ghosh

And I still find it very relevant and I apply it day to day.

Probably not.

I probably would have used something called statistics, which everyone is aware of.

Back then, it was more statistical.

So you don't have these big algorithms at that point.

But then something happened.

I don't know if you heard of this company called Kaggle.

They used to host these sort of data science competitions and anyone can participate.

And if you do really well, you get a prize.

That was a good motivation just to see, okay, I learned something.

Let me apply it and see how good I am.

I'm getting at it.

So I think that was my first entry point where I really got hands-on into AI.

And that probably stayed with me for a while.

I think that was back in 2006.

That's when I started getting hands-on.

And the funny thing is, when you look at these Kaggle competitions, the use cases they used to give, actual industry applications.

So you were really dealing with business problems, applying AI to solve it.

And then you know, wait a minute, a medical company is using it, a manufacturing company is using it, a banking is using it, and this is 2006.

So it already started.