IIT Bhubaneshwar embarked on captivating research to manufacture Iron Bars that are used in Konark Sun Temple

• A research aims to unravel the methods for manufacturing method of iron beams that were used in the construction of the Konark Sun temple in the 13th century

• The project which has been approved by “Indian Knowledge System (IKS) has been titled “Forging the Past : Investigating the manufacturing of Iron beams used in Sun Temple and analysing the Socio Economic impact on the local community”.

• The project led by Soobhankar Pati, Associate Professor, IIT - Bhubaneswar provided an affirmation that the study will be non destructive and no physical change will be made to the structure of the iron beams

• This research being conducted showcases the potential for India to reclaim its long lost technological glory.

Is Gemini google’s Best response to Open AI’s ChatGPT

• Google’s reveal of Gemini, an Multimodal AI model built to bridge the gap between the search giant and Open AI’s GPT made a stellar impression

• However, this did not last long as AI engineers, enthusiasts were able to see through the faults.

• While a google’s representative says that the demo video of Gemini features real prompts and the outputs from gemini, the editing leaves out a few details from it.

• This led to the quick realisation that Gemini’s capabilities were less revolutionary than how they initially appeared.

• In addition to this,Gemini Ultra the largest of the three models in the Gemini Family claims to beat GPT-4 in a variety of benchmarks for which google is taking flack as it has used different methodologies for measuring its performance.

• One such method is a way a user prompts the AI model can also influence its performance.