Exploring the Impact of ChatGPT: Pros, Cons and the Future of AI Chatbots

"ChatGPT is a state-of-the-art AI language model that has the ability to converse with humans in a way that is almost indistinguishable from a human-to-human conversation. As AI chatbots like ChatGPT continue to improve, they are increasingly being used in a variety of industries and contexts, including customer service, counseling, and even content creation. However, there are also concerns about the ethical and social implications of relying on AI chatbots for human communication. This panel discussion will explore both the potential benefits and drawbacks of ChatGPT and other AI chatbots, as well as their potential impact on the future of human communication and society as a whole."

About the Speakers

1. - Chief Architect, Myntra

Shankar Umamaheshwaran has over 25 years of experience, currently working as a Chief Architect for Myntra. Prior to this role, he led the customer experience, retail engineering, and platform charters. Prior to Myntra, Shankar has been with Jabong, Yahoo, Hewlett Packard, and C-DOT performing both management and architecture roles. Shankar has exposure to e-commerce, media, semiconductor, and telecom domains."

2. - Vice president Engineering, Myntra

Ajay is the Vice President of Platform Services at Myntra leading data, analytics, machine learning, and cloud platform charters. Ajay has deep expertise in building enterprise platforms for data and machine learning systems hosted on the public/private cloud. Before Myntra, he worked at Walmart where he executed Walmart’s cloud data strategy and built platforms to handle its analytics and data science needs at scale. Ajay has held leadership positions in multiple large corporations like Wlamart, IBM, Yahoo, Intel, etc. and has contributed to their technology modernization initiatives.

3. - Director Engineering, Myntra

Ranjitha R has over 17 years of experience as an engineering leader in product and technology companies such as Walmart, Cisco, and Digital Insight. Currently, she is responsible for leading the engineering efforts for Pricing, Promotions, and Partner Experience at Myntra. In her previous role, she spearheaded transformation initiatives aimed at enhancing administrative experiences in the banking sector, including the development of a chatbot solution for banking customers.

4. - Head of Engineering, CoinSwitch

Sudheer has been a technology leader working in various bleeding-edge tech companies, currently as Head of Engineering at CoinSwitch. He was VP of Engineering. at Myntra for 2 years leading Supply Chain Engineering, Data, and Cloud platforms, and prior to that at Flipkart for 4.5 yrs leading Flipkart's Cloud and Data Platform Engineering & InfoSec teams. Before Flipkart, he was primarily based out of Seattle in the US. He worked in Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Seattle, where he owned and managed a public web service called AWS Data Pipeline used for analytics. Before AWS, he worked at Expedia in the CTO office helping bootstrap the next generation of the Hadoop big-data infrastructure platform. Prior to Expedia, he had a long stint at RealNetworks, the streaming media pioneer where he held a wide variety of roles ranging from systems developer to the Director of Catalog and Search.

5. - Distinguished Architect, Flipkart

Hanumantha Rao Susarla, aka Hanu, is a Distinguished Architect at Flipkart. In the last 3 years he is working in Flipkart, Hanu has been focusing on User Acquisition and Retention charter driving architecture strategy for various initiatives including App experience, API platforms, Conversational Assistants, Partner-driven Commerce, Video Commerce, Loyalty Programs, Games, etc. Before Joining Flipkart, He worked as Chief Architect at [24]7.ai driving architecture initiatives in the conversational commerce space. In a career spanning a few decades, Hanu has also been associated with Tata Consultancy Services, Sun Microsystems, BEA, Yahoo, and Samsung working on a variety of technologies and domains, mostly playing the role of the architect.Hanu has a PhD from the department of Computer Science, IIT Mumbai and Masters in CS from NIT Warangal. He got hisBachelors in Civil Engineering from Andhra University, Vizag

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