{"id":957254,"date":"2025-08-25T08:27:47","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T02:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=957254"},"modified":"2025-08-25T08:42:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T03:12:01","slug":"learn-to-play-around-with-ai-tools-get-fluent-microsoft-india-president-advises-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/25\/learn-to-play-around-with-ai-tools-get-fluent-microsoft-india-president-advises-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn to play around with AI tools, get fluent: Microsoft India President advises youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft India President Puneet Chandok has urged the youth to build on AI fluency, terming it &#8220;super important&#8221; and stressing such skills cannot be learnt merely through theory or observation but by hands-on use of tools, as the top honcho drew a light-hearted analogy of fitness gained by actually working out in a gym. <\/p>\n<p>Shrugging-off a recent MIT Media Lab study raising an alarm over AI and its potential cognitive consequences and neural costs, Chandok said he believes AI boosts rather than diminishes cognitive abilities by automating routine drudgery, freeing users to focus on value-adding, judgment-driven work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft India President Puneet Chandok has urged the youth to build on AI fluency, terming it &#8220;super important&#8221; and stressing such skills cannot be learnt merely through theory or observation but by hands-on use of tools, as the top honcho drew a light-hearted analogy of fitness gained by actually working out in a gym. Shrugging-off a recent MIT Media Lab study raising an alarm over AI and its potential cognitive consequences and neural costs, Chandok said he believes AI boosts rather than diminishes cognitive abilities by automating routine drudgery, freeing users to focus on value-adding, judgment-driven work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-957254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=957254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}