New Delhi, 5 February (PTI) Union IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw quoted India's Ultra Cheap Moon Mission Chandrayan-3 to show the country's innovation potential to reduce the costs of AI development.
In a panel discussion with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, the minister said that the government will soon come up with open competition for startups to invite technical solutions that many government services are looking for.
“Our young entrepreneurs, startups, researchers are really focused on getting that next level of innovation that will reduce costs. Our country, sent mission to the moon against a fraction of the costs that many other countries did. Why we can't Do a model that will be a fraction of the costs that many other countries will reduce?
India's lunar mission Chandrayan-3 was worth £600 crore while other countries have spent multi-billion dollars on Moon Exploration.
Altman has, after rejecting India's potential to develop a cheap fundamental model for AI-like chatgpt in 2023, now has changed its vision with AI progress and sees India as a potential leader in the AI revolution.
Vaishnaw said that India is now working on the entire AI development ecosystem, including building its own chipsets, offering a calculation facility for low costs and works on data sets that will be used to train the models in the Indian context in terms of language, cultural and regional nuances, etc. within the country.
The government is likely to offer access to GPU (graphic processing unit) High-end computer to Indian companies and startups for an amount of USD 1.6 per ours for gifts on USD 6 per hour for Indian companies.
Altman said that the costs of an intelligence unit – a module in AI development – are gong to fall 10 times at the end of this year.
However, he said that reasoning modules are not cheap and “it is still expensive to train them, but it is executable. I think that will lead to an explosion of really great creativity and India should be a leader there”.
As an addition to the point of Altman, Vaishnaw said that innovation to reduce costs can come all over the world.
“Why wouldn't it come from India? Our young entrepreneurs, our startups, our researchers, they are really, really focused on getting that next level of innovation that will lower the costs,” he said.
