GLOSSARY: Krutrim 101: Learning to Have Fun

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AIM Daily XO by Amit Naik

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The whole world is actively discussing Bhavish Aggrawal's Krutrim, with a mix of criticism and praise. However, one thing is clear: it’s time for people to enjoy India’s first LLM-based chatbot and not take things personally.

Last year, Aggarwal announced Krutrim as India’s own AI model that can understand 22 Indic languages and generate output in 10 of them. He even claimed that his model outperforms GPT-4 and Llama-2, probably the most advanced and popular LLMs out there, when it comes to Indic languages.

Yet, when the beta version of the model was actually released last week, it turned out to be high on hallucination. The thing about hallucinations is that these are good for chatbots. “The hallucinations of the GPT models is a feature, not a bug. It lets you discover new things,” said OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, during his recent interaction with Bill Gates.

Aggarwal asserted that hallucinations are bound to be there, but much lower for Indian contexts than other global platforms. However, that has not been the case. Hallucinations in Krutrim appear to be significantly higher, even when prompted in English. In one specific case, it declared that it was created by OpenAI!

Not to be taken seriously as of now, Krutrim can be a fun chatbot for Indian consumers to play around with. Hopefully, it gets better with time, given that it uses reinforcement learning in the human feedback loop, just like ChatGPT.

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