Microsoft's AI Reaches Indian Villages

An anonymous reader shares a report: Merely months have passed since Microsoft and OpenAI unveiled ChatGPT to the world, sparking a fervor among tech enthusiasts and industry titans. Now, the technology that underpins this generative AI is breaking barriers, reaching remote hamlets hundreds of miles away from the tech hubbubs of Seattle and San Francisco. Jugalbandi, a chatbot built in collaboration by Microsoft, the open-source initiative OpenNyAI, and AI4Bharat, backed by the Indian government, is showing signs of progress in redefining information access for villagers in India, offering insights into more than 170 government programs in 10 indigenous languages.

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[omnichad]

It's not the dumbest take, but it's close. Can't improve anything else until you have time for the most difficult, possibly unsolvable things.

Small correction

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

Merely months have passed since Microsoft and OpenAI inflicted ChatGPT on the world

There. Fixed that for you.

Because I don't care if ChatGPT is the greatest invention since sliced bread: I'm utterly sick and tired of hearing about it. Over. And over. And over. And fucking over... Even the blockchain hype was 10 times less tiring.

Not to mention of course, considering the utter devastation AI is about to unleash unto the job market, I'd really like to enjoy the last few months of normality without being constantly reminded that it's about to come to an end.

"Reaches"

[Dictator For Life]

...by which is meant not that technology has at last arrived in the village, but rather that Microsoft and Open.AI have marketing opportunities that involve showing how "AI" is supposedly going to make the world better for people who aren't paying enough yet --I mean, have been under-served.

Hundreds of miles?

[GrumpySteen]

reaching remote hamlets hundreds of miles away from the tech hubbubs of Seattle and San Francisco

India is over 8,000 miles away from Seattle and San Francisco. Whoever wrote that article needs remedial education on geography and a map.

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[Rosco P. Coltrane]

8,000 miles is technically hundreds of miles. 80 hundreds to be precise. It's also dozens of miles (667 dozens) and miles (8,000 miles).