BENGALURU: India’s head of Google Research Manish Gupta on Tuesday respectfully disagreed with Nandan Nilekani’s advice for India to prioritize building use cases over building foundational models in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). said.
“I respectfully disagree. He is completely wrong. He is not preaching what he practices. He revolutionized India’s technology landscape by starting from the basics. With Aadhaar, we started by building the foundation rather than starting with a use case. We too have to use constraints as fodder for innovation,” said Gupta. He spoke on a panel at the Bengaluru Tech Summit.
In October, Nairkhani advised Indian AI companies to develop practical applications and leave it to the US to build, rather than competing in the field of building new large-scale language models (LLMs). .
Speaking at Meta’s Build with AI summit in Bengaluru, the Infosys chairman and co-founder said, “Our goal should not be to build another LLM. I want a major company to spend billions of dollars doing this.” How do we create the infrastructure to collect the right data and make India a global AI use case capital that actually deploys and increases scale and speed in a frugal way? Is it? Let others build your LLM and we’ll make sure it works. people. “
The debate over whether India has the capacity and focus to build its own LLM continued in June 2023, when OpenAI founder Sam Altman asked if India had the capacity and focus to start building something like OpenAI or ChatGPT in India. came up when I was asked for my opinion on what to do.
The panel titled ‘AI: Reality vs. Hype’ also included Praya Misra, Head of India Public Policy and Partnerships at OpenAI, who was appointed to the role in April this year. She is the first and only employee of the ChatGPT maker.
“AI is being used at the personal level, the societal level, the national level. There is also another geopolitical level, which is very important right now, especially given that India is on the way. With the IndiaAI mission, we have a clear path forward and OpenAI’s contribution is also very clear and we want to build tools and models with India, for India and for the world. I believe that,” Misra told the panel audience.
