Arun K. Subramaniyan on boosting AI development | India needs to invest in AI now

To make AI an inclusive tech that levels playing fields, India needs an increase in datasets with representation of regional languages and a higher supply of accelerator chips

(Illustration: Nilanjan Das | AI)

A year ago, Artificial Intelligence (AI) was a deeply technical subject discussed in computer science and technology circles. ChatGPT was released in November 2022, sparking a change in the world as we know it. Suddenly, everyone from a fifth grader looking to write a poem to a CFO trying to analyse the latest financial statements was able to use AI to produce something meaningful. That is transformational, in a way that we haven’t seen since the birth of the internet search.