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The godfather of AI has this advice for India?

How can India be an artificial intelligence (AI) hub? One of the ‘godfathers of AI’ has an answer.

The country must take a bigger participation in the research community, not just engineering and product development, Meta's chief AI scientist Yann LeCun told us in an interview.?

"We created a research lab in France 10 years ago, in Paris, and it had an enormous effect on the local ecosystem," he said.?

Build vs deploy: LeCun said that the right approach for India at present is to use an open-source foundation AI model, like Meta's Llama, to deploy for a variety of applications across the consumer and business domains.?

In the medium term, he believes that training of foundational models will be distributed among several regions to tackle the ballooning costs of training these models. This will also be necessary as countries increasingly seek sovereignty over their data.?

LeCun's advice to 20-year-olds: They should study basic things that have a long shelf life - mathematics, physics, basic computer science, applied mathematics - since it would be necessary to understand and develop the next generation of AI systems, he said.?

"AI is going to help you learn that stuff, help you work with it, but you need to learn the basics for it," he said.?

LeCun also talked about how far are we from advanced machine intelligence, AI regulation, why he is more optimistic about AI as compared to other godfathers of AI, how the nascent technology is becoming a race to the bottom, and how he uses Meta's smart glasses.?

Read the interview?(Prefer video? Watch it here)

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