“We’re keeping India in mind in whatever important decisions that we are making,” Srinivas Narayanan, vice president of OpenAI, said at the Global IndiaAI Summit.
“We launched ChatGPT just 1.5 years ago, 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 really transformative ways. And it’s impacting people’s daily lives in all sorts of ways that we hadn’t imagined, including here in India,” he said.
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Narayanan noted that AI has increased the pace and dynamism within India’s already dynamic entrepreneurial ecosystem.
“We’re reducing the cost of intelligence. We’re enabling developers to write code and we are helping them create completely conversational and natural interfaces to computing. And I think this is helping people be a lot more productive and opening up opportunities for higher level problem-solving,” he said.
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OpenAI is committed to supporting the application development initiative of the India AI mission, he added. “This will ensure that Indian developers can build on our models and deliver social benefits at scale.” Narayanan had met developers in Bengaluru on January 5.The Indian government will be spending $1.2 billion (about Rs 10,000 crore) for the India AI mission.
According to Narayanan, the cost of using AI has significantly decreased, making it more accessible to a broader audience.
“For developers, it has really brought down the cost of building new applications and that’s when I think it’s going to create a lot more opportunities for innovation across lots of different developers as well,” he said.
On February 10, Jason Kwon, chief strategy officer of OpenAI, had said the company will continue to invest in the developer community in India and hold several developer summits in the country this year.
Narayanan also talked about the next major technological shift involving the ability to take actions rather than just answering questions.
“One really interesting trend we are seeing is that the current technology is allowing us to answer questions.But we’re gonna see a shift also from answering questions to taking actions and we’re seeing the very early stages of that,” he said.
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