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вторник, 13 февраля 2024 г.

Singh & Sins of AI 💦

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By AMIT RAJA NAIK

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Not sure if you have watched the latest Bold Care ad satirising Indian soap operas [must watch], but the Indian open-source AI ecosystem is also going through somewhat similar, where Meta’s Llama 2 is the Sins and everybody else working on building Indic LLMs are the Singh.

When it comes to India and generative AI, all the recent Indic language models such as Sarvam AI’s OpenHathi, alongside Kannada, Telugu, Odia and Tamil, have been built on top of models built by Meta’s Llama 2. There is a dire need for India to build its own open source model from scratch and let others build on top of it.

Speaking to AIM, Ganesh Ramakrishnan, the IIT Bombay professor who is leading the BharatGPT initiative, said that there is definitely the need for a foundational model for Indic languages. “We are building foundational models from scratch and that is what is keeping us busy,” said Ramakrishnan about how BharatGPT will put India on the global AI map.

Even now, while Indian researchers are focusing on Indic language and taking on the herculean task of collecting Indic language dataset, there is not a single model built from scratch (even in English) to have reached the Hugging Face leaderboard. It is hard to assume that an Indic language model, even if open sourced, would be used by researchers from other countries.

That is why China released its models in both English and Chinese, making it easy for others to use the model, instead of forming a bubble within the country. It’s time India upped the ante and took Bold Care contributing to the open-source AI ecosystem.

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