Earlier this month, the OpenAI founder and CEO Sam Altman visited India to debate synthetic intelligence and unfold consciousness about each its potential and its risks. Throughout this era, he attended an occasion with distinguished startup founders and enterprise heads. A somewhat controversial second additionally occurred on this occasion when answering a query on India’s possibilities of constructing a ChatGPT-like massive language mannequin (LLM), Altman mentioned it is “fully hopeless”. Now, yesterday, Mahindra Group chairman Anand Mahindra met the ChatGPT creator on the state dinner hosted by US President Joe Biden and mentioned the latter’s views on India’s functionality in tech innovation.
Anand Mahindra meets Sam Altman on the state dinner
The state dinner, which can be being referred to as the ‘India-US Hello-Tech Handshake’ occasion, noticed a few of the largest tech leaders of the world, together with Anand Mahindra, Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani, Indra Nooyi, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Microsoft’s Satya Nadella, Sam Altman, Apple CEO Tim Cook dinner, and others share a desk with PM Modi and US President Biden to debate cooperation in constructing know-how infrastructure in each the international locations.
Mahindra additionally had the possibility to talk with Altman in the course of the occasion and spoke in regards to the ChatGPT problem. However it seems to be a misunderstanding. Clarifying in a tweet, he mentioned, “The Tech Handshake assembly this morning on the White Home, was refreshingly frank…On the sidelines of the assembly, I caught up with Sam Altman in regards to the ‘problem’ that @C_P_Gurnani had accepted. Sam reiterated that he’d been misunderstood. He is removed from sceptical about Indian skills”.
Referring to the occasion itself, Mahindra talked about, “My optimism about nearer know-how cooperation is as a result of the mutual profit is now concerned somewhat than only a one-way request from India”.
Sam Altman’s remark that began the controversy
Sam Altman was requested by enterprise capitalist and former head of Google India Rajan Anandan about how an Indian entrepreneur can go about constructing their very own model of a foundational AI mannequin.
Altman had mentioned, “The best way this works is, we’re going to let you know that it is fully hopeless to problem us in coaching foundational fashions, and also you should not even attempt it. And it is your job to nonetheless attempt it anyway. And I imagine each of these issues. I feel it’s fairly hopeless regardless”.
The remark resulted in lots of distinguished tech leaders difficult Altman’s response. Amongst them was CEO of Tech Mahindra, CP Gurnani, who mentioned, “OpenAI founder Sam Altman mentioned it is fairly hopeless for Indian corporations to try to compete with them. Pricey @sama, From one CEO to a different.. CHALLENGE ACCEPTED”.
A day later, Altman defined in a tweet responding to Gurnani that he was misunderstood. He mentioned, “That is actually taken out of context! the query was about competing with us with $10 million, which i actually do assume will not be going to work. however i nonetheless mentioned attempt! nevertheless, i feel it is the flawed query”.
“The suitable query is what a startup can try this’s by no means been performed earlier than, that may contribute a brand new factor to the world. i’ve little question Indian startups can and can try this! and nobody however the builders can reply that query,” he added.
