The need to build sovereign AI capabilities

As this columnist had written earlier, AI is a general-purpose technology (GPT) and GPTs tend to dramatically alter the power dynamics in society and business

During his recent visit to India, Arvind Krishna, chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of IBM, said India needed to develop sovereign capability in artificial intelligence (AI), including Generative AI. Indian policymakers need to take his advice seriously. AI — especially machine learning (ML) and deep learning — has increasingly been used in the past few years for everything from e-commerce recommendations to self-learning cars. But the entry of Generative AI — ChatGPT and DALL-E from OpenAI, Bard from Google, Claude from Anthropic, Llama 2 from Meta, and others – has kicked off a whole new ball game.
 

Generative AI