Google Research India chief disagrees with Nilekani on what India should do in AI

Published On : 2024-11-21T05:53:04+0530 [ IST ] | Author : Mayur_Tembhare
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Manish Gupta in charge of Google Research in India said he respectfully disagrees with Nandan Nilekani’s advice to India on prioritising use case building over and above building foundational models in the area of

He is absolutely wrong. He is not preaching what he has practised. He revolutionised India's technology landscape by starting with the basics. With Aadhaar he did not start with use cases he started with building foundations. We too must use our constraints as ingredients for innovation

In October this year Nilekani had advised Indian AI companies to develop practical applications instead of competing in the field of building new large language models (LLM) and letting the US build them.

The chairman and co-founder of Infosys said at Meta's Build with AI summit in Bengaluru: "Our goal should not be to build one more LLM. Let the big boys in Silicon Valley do it, spending billions of dollars... How do we create the infrastructure for collecting the right data and make India the use

The debate around whether India’s ability and focus to build indigenous LLMs emerged in June 2023 when OpenAI founder Sam Altman Sam Altmanwas asked for inputs on how one could start to create something like

Also on the panel AI: Reality Vs Hype was OpenAI’s public policy and partnerships lead for India Pragya PragyaMisra who got appointed to the role in April this year and is the first and only employee of ChatGPT maker

AI is used at a personal life level, a society level and a national level. There is also another geopolitical level which is very critical now especially given where India is on its journey. With the IndiaAI Mission, we have a clear path to move ahead. OpenAI’s contribution is also very clear we want to build our tools

Source : Reporters From Sunrise Chronicles

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