In this episode of dAIlogues by Stellaris, Alok Goyal sits down with Dr Harrick Vin, who has seen AI evolve up close — from his early years of pioneering research in academia, to building and scaling Digitate into one of enterprise IT's most widely adopted AI platforms, and now as Chief Technology Officer at TCS, where he is reimagining how one of the world's largest technology services companies operates in the AI era.

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in this conversation, we cover

00:00 Coming up…

01:24 Dr Harrick Vin’s journey

03:23 Academic to enterprise - how was the shift?

06:27 What surprises you about AI?

10:09 Are applications truly combining both types of reasoning?

13:21 Are you seeing true adoption of AI in enterprises?

20:32 Is AI breaking the depth-vs-breadth trade-off?

29:00 Does AI flatten hierarchy or speed up experience?

30:48 Is the single data warehouse still relevant?

33:09 How are AI systems tackling reliability issues?

38:20 Is human-in-the-loop the future or just a phase?

42:17 How will AI reshare India’s $300B IT-BPO industry?

47:13 What should India focus on?

53:26 Application or Foundation Models, where should India invest?

57:16 What role should Indian academia play?

59:17 Your advice to Indian founders building in AI