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Meet 14-year-old Tanmay Bakshi, a champion of artificial intelligence

Tanmay Bakshi, tech prodigy and educationist, is a champion of artificial intelligence and, well, SpongeBob SquarePants

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Bakshi’s first keynote address was to an audience of 25,000 people sometime ago in Las Vegas

Nikita Puri
For some time now, Tanmay Bakshi has identified as an explorer. “More specifically, a technology explorer,” he says. Bakshi remembers being drawn by technology at the age of five: the question of how his name appeared on the computer screen stimulated him enough to learn programming languages. Today, at 14, Bakshi is recognised as one of the youngest software developers in the world.

“As a five-year old, I had no bias. I didn’t know programming was supposed to be boring. I didn’t know the concept of a job either: I didn’t know people were paid to programme. It was just