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Computer code writer9/1/2023 ![]() ![]() I could have started coding even when I was 4.5 years old, which is just one year before I actually started learning it.” He nonchalantly adds, “It’s very easy to learn AI. His parents concur that most of his AI knowledge comes from reading books on the subject as coding hasn’t been taught to him at school nor was he given any specialised coaching. “How I started learning to code was when my Dad gave me this book about computing and I loved it so much that I finished it in only one day, built some basic computing programs and also installed Python,” says Kautilya. Samiksha Mehra (left) of INDIAai, in conversation with Kautilya Katariya (right) Amused at first, he later raises his computer mouse and exclaims, “A mouse is stupid!” The little boy does know his AI. “No,” he says, “first a person needs to program a machine, then it can be intelligent.” Playfully, I nudge him to give examples of ‘stupid machines’ then. I ask him if all machines are intelligent. “What is artificial intelligence?” I ask, and he promptly replies, “AI is basically making a machine have intelligence so it almost represents a human brain.” ![]() His parents, father Ishwari and mother Trupti, proudly relate their son’s many achievements before I get into a one-to-one conversation with Kautilya. He has been invited to speak at multiple international AI conferences, too, and is slated to speak at the World Artificial Intelligence Summit in Amsterdam in October 2021. The Indian boy residing in the UK was, at age six, declared the 'youngest computer programmer' in the world by the Guinness Book of Records. “Computing is a bit like solving a puzzle because the operations are like pieces to make the puzzle and to solve the problem,” Kautilya tells me during our candid chat over a video call. For the seven-year-old Kautilya Katariya, however, this became an opportunity to brush up his knowledge of computing and coding. The COVID-19 lockdowns have brought in a dry spell for students all across the world. ![]()
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