The OpenAI founder and CEO Sam Altman is at present on a multi-nation journey talking on synthetic intelligence, its constructive influence, and the necessity for laws to mitigate its draw back. As part of his journey, he was in India on June 7 and eight, the place he met PM Modi and attended a few periods the place he spoke with entrepreneurs, media, and academicians. He responded to numerous questions on AI, however one explicit response caught out the place he mentioned that India’s possibilities of constructing a ChatGPT-like foundational mannequin to create its personal generative AI have been “hopeless”. It was as surprising because it was stunning.
Altman was responding to a query posed by enterprise capitalist and former head of Google India Rajan Anandan the place he requested, “Sam, we’ve acquired a really vibrant ecosystem in India. Focusing particularly on AI, if a startup from India desires to construct foundational (AI) fashions, how ought to we take into consideration that, right here is it {that a} group from India to really construct one thing actually substantial”.
Sam Altman says India’s possibilities to construct AI coaching fashions are ‘hopeless’
Altman responded to it and mentioned, “The way in which this works is, we’re going to inform you 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”.
Regardless of the response, Anandan has taken up problem fairly sportingly. He took to Twitter to reply to Altman’s reply and tweeted, “Thanks @sama for the clear reply. As you mentioned, “it’s hopeless, however you’ll attempt anyway”. 5000 years of Indian entrepreneurship has proven us that we should always by no means underestimate the Indian entrepreneur. We do intend to attempt”.
CEO of Tech Mahindra, CP Gurnani has additionally reacted to this trade and tweeted, “OpenAI founder Sam Altman mentioned it is fairly hopeless for Indian firms to attempt to compete with them. Expensive @sama, From one CEO to a different.. CHALLENGE ACCEPTED”.
Peeyush Ranjan, VP of Google Assistant, additionally replied to Anandan’s tweet and mentioned, “Nice perspective @RajanAnandan — one should not guess towards the Indian entrepreneurship. I used to be shocked that the top of a supposedly non revenue discouraged entrepreneurs from becoming a member of the trigger, and as a substitute noticed it as competitors”.
These posts together with the trade between Anandan and Altman have gone viral on social media.
