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A GUIDE TO FREELANCING...

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Freelancing is one such field which is emerging in India. Currently there are over 15 million active freelancers and is estimated to grow in near future. Furthermore India witnessed a 46% increase in new freelancers in 2020 as per a report. WHY IS FREELANCING BECOMING POPULAR? Freelancing's popularity is showing potential for greater job opportunities, independence, higher income and a move towards income equality. India has the largest growing startups in the world. Due to which it encourages individuals to start their own businesses or work as freelancers.  What is freelancing? Freelancing is a contract based profession where instead of being recruited to an organisation you can use your skills, experience, education to provide services to a number of clients. Not everyone uses the term "freelancer" for the work they do. Infact most people refer themselves as "self-employed ".    Freelancing usually involves jobs that allow them to work from home. But not nece...

Here's how GPT-3 will change the world of CONTENT WRITING...

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I've spent the last week exploring this new AI called GPT-3 and how it will transform the world of content creating and blogging in the near future. I went out loooking for what this AI was capable of and found that it's already being quite active around the web.       The best way to understand GPT-3 is to actually read some of its work.  *Here is one instance in which a student used GPT-3 to write a blog and it went viral within a few hours and hit the top of Hacker News. Very few people caught on the fact that it was AI generated. He was trying to demonstrate that the content produced by GPT-3 could fool people into believing it was written by a human. SO WHAT EXACTLY IS GPT-3? In case you are not familiar with GPT-3: it's the latest version of series of AI designed by OpenAI. GPT-3 is short for "Generative Pre-trianed Transformer". It can produce many types of written content. It takes only a short prompt to produce grammatically correct content. It basically ...

CANCEL CULTURE- WHY IT NEEDS TO STOP

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SYNOPSIS: Last year we saw many hastags like #BoycottChineseGoods, #boycottstarkids, #boycottwhitehatjr, and the recent one on #cancelboardexams2021 are some of the examples of "cancel culture". Today I am going to highlight on the concept of "cancel culture", how it works, how it affects the society, the history behind it, etc. MEANING OF "CANCEL CULTURE ": According to Cambridge Dictionary- it is a way of behaving in a society or groups especially on social media, in which it is common to completely reject and stop supporting someone because they have said or done something that offends you.  1) Here we have to understand that everything can be cancelled if the internet collectively decides the need to do so. 'Collectively' because cancelling of something is a result of a mass movement. 2) It isn't only public figures who get 'cancelled'. It also includes organisations and companies.    Nowadays this term has become very common that i...