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The year 2022 has seen tremendous growth regarding the use of AI in general user applications. It has been largely possible due to the developer community coming together and building something amazing using open-sourced information.
Satya Nadella, the CEO of Microsoft, also believes that to do magical things with AI, we have to make these large models available as API’s to anyone who wants to use them in their projects.
Speaking at the leadership summit, Nadella lauded Indians on how they are using open data to build their own AI project. Giving an example of a non-profit organisation ‘Seeds’ taking high-def satellite imagery and converting that into essentially micro forecasts of disaster impacts so that their volunteers can then go to the households—whether it’s sort of flooding or any other type of disaster—and effectively warn them to carry out preparedness measures.
“Another example is the national language translation mission. What they’ve decided to do is language translation should be a public good that’s available to every company, and every citizen of India, and they’re going off and building it.”
Further, Nadella said that he was able to speak in Hindi in one of the demos and express a prompt in the model, which is trained using GPT; and fine-tuned GPT for the government data in all native Indian languages.
According to him, this innovation democratises the ability to express a complex thought to a model and India has huge implications in this regard.
Talking about the Indian government building digital infrastructure as a public good, he said, “I love one of the things that’s probably unbelievable, amazing, great to see is India leads when it comes to digital public goods. India is building out digital infrastructure as a public good, and this is a great example of it.”
