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In a crowd of deep tech experts at Nasscom’s Big Data and Analytics Summit, Tanmay Bakshi, 13, looks like a kid accompanying his father to the event. But as he walked up to the dais to deliver the keynote address, there was a buzz in the air.
The crowd, which included the top leadership of Nasscom, CEOs and experts in Artificial Intelligence, Big Data and Machine Learning, listened with rapt attention as he talked on ‘Artificial Intelligence: Good news, bad news or fake news?’
The child prodigy, who made global headlines for his prowess in coding, IBM Watson and artificial intelligence, wowed the packed crowd with his knowledge of the subject.
He then narrates a heart-rending story of Boo, a 29-year-old Canadian woman with a rare neurological disorder, and of how technology is trying to help her communicate with the world.
Initiated into computing at age 5, Bakshi is today a TEDx speaker, an AI-CognitiveDeveloper, IBM Honorary Cloud Advisor, YouTuber, author and algorithmist.
“I love coding and I’m looking to impact 1,00,000 youth in coding,” he told BusinessLine .
He runs a popular YouTube channel called Tanmay Teaches, introducing various technologies to the youth.
Will automation kill coding? Bakshi reckons not. Coding, he says, is all about problem-solving.
Is all the attention that he gets everywhere distracting him?
“No. Actually, it helps me focus on what I want: bringing coding to the youth,” he says, with wisdom way beyond his years.
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