We Are Keeping India In Mind In Whatever Important Decisions We Make: OpenAI VP At Global India AI Summit
Open AI VP Srinivas Narayanan said that the company keeps India in mind in all important decisions that it makes.
Global India AI Summit was held in Delhi on July 3 during which ChatGPT maker OpenAI said that it has been developing a growing habit on a leadership team to keep learning from India. While addressing the Global India AI Summit, Open AI VP Srinivas Narayanan said, "We have been developing a growing habit on a leadership team to keep learning from India. We're keeping India in mind in whatever important decisions we are making... In the last decade, the entire field has witnessed huge progress in AI. In the last five years, we've seen huge progress in our ability to build generally intelligent models. We launched GPT just 1.5 years ago."
He added, "We thought it would be a low-key research preview, but in the last 18 months, we have seen that people are using it in transformative ways, and it's impacting people's daily lives, including here in India. This has created a new interface to computing... When you have generally intelligent systems, people are able to put them to use in lots of different applications..."
#WATCH | Delhi: Addressing the Global India AI Summit, Open AI VP Srinivas Narayanan says, "We have been developing a growing habit on a leadership team to keep learning from India. We're keeping India in mind in whatever important decisions we are making... In the last decade,… pic.twitter.com/qE43nvQ0dn
— ANI (@ANI) July 3, 2024
He continued to say, "We are seeing AI being used in lots of new industries across the world... AI has already added speed and dynamism to the already dynamic entrepreneurial ecosystem in India. Entrepreneurs understand market gaps. They are building innovative products... We're reducing the cost of intelligence, enabling developers to write code and helping them create completely conversational and natural interfaces to computing..."
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India Chairs Global Partnership For AI
After the Summit, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw told news agency ANI that India is chairing the Global Partnership for AI and throughout this year, several programs have taken place where the potential of AI and the corresponding techno-legal steps that societies need to take to contain the risks, have been deliberated. He added that in numerous countries, a number of activities related to containing the risks related to AI have been held.
He further said that there is a regulation, and already a law has been passed in the EU and the US also passed an executive order. Globally, the UN has set up a separate body to deliberate about AI and this will be one of the major focus of this summit, said the Union Minister.
He added, "The other big focus will be how society harnesses the potential of AI. PM Modi has always emphasized that technology has to be democratised... The Union cabinet had approved India's AI mission a few months back. The ministry is working on the foundations and the groundwork for setting up the India AI mission... In the coming few months, we will be launching the mission so that the power and potential of AI can be harnessed in agriculture, education, healthcare, medicine, pharmaceuticals and all these sectors that are relevant to our society..."
#WATCH | Delhi: After the Global India AI summit, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw says, "India is chairing the Global Partnership for AI. Throughout this year, lots of programs have happened where the potential of AI and the corresponding techno-legal steps that societies need to… pic.twitter.com/r8tVO5kfJ3
— ANI (@ANI) July 3, 2024
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