Openai CEO Sam Altman signed a visit to New Delhi as part of his world tour, so Openai executive team stopped in Chennai for a string of engagements.
Openai’s Vice President of Engineering Srinivas Narayanan and lead of public policy and partnership India Pragya Misra was in Chennai on Friday to meet with IT Paranivelti Agarajan from Tamil Nadu to hold IIT Madras for a special lecture at the Institute. I visited.
Among other things, discussions with the Minister included the role of Openai’s model to speed up the provision of civic services by the state, and how the platform could help train state youth with AI skills.
“We will use Openai’s model to speed up the delivery of e-Sevai services at 30,000 plus centers and train young people through ICT academies, leading edge in AI skills, technical breaks. “The area where thrus are happening rapidly,” the minister wrote about the visit to social media platform LinkedIn.
State sources noted that the visit was more casual in nature, with the open platform focusing on the possibility that the government would use it for governance efficiency. Tamil Nadu has already partnered with Google for the AI ​​skills of young people under the Naan Mudhalvan scheme, and Google has established Tamil Nadu AI Lab in Chennai under this Mu.
Narayanan of Openai, who leads the team behind products such as ChatGpt and Developer API, is an IIT-Madras alumnus and headed to IIT-Madras to accommodate students from the Institute.
In a chat across the fireplace with Professor B. Rabindran of IIT-M, Narayanan acknowledged the recent developments in Deepshek, but emphasized that the Open focuses on AGI’s vision (artificial) general information). He downplayed speculation about a significant cost gap between Openai’s model and other competitors, noting that “the price curve continues to fall every few months.”
Speaking about his involvement with the Open India, particularly CEO Altman’s recent visit, Narayanan dismissed claims that Altman’s views on India have changed dramatically. He cited the conversation with the Indian IT minister as evidence of Openai’s role in supporting Indian AI ambitions from hardware, foundation models and applications. “India is the biggest democracy and the opportunity to make AI useful to people is immeasurable,” he said.
Especially regarding the impact of AI on employment in software development, Narayanan said that AI will not completely replace software engineers, but will automate coding tasks so that engineers can focus on solving complex problems. He added that AI will gradually evolve into performing more complex tasks.
In his lecture, he also touched on AI safety and highlighted Openai’s approach to risk assessment.
