Language and AI: A piece of token appreciation

Last weekend, this column argued why India must establish tech sovereignty. There was despondency when pointing out that as things are in tech, India is a Tier II country as opposed to China and the US—now counted as Tier I countries. How did things get to be this way? Policy wonk Venky Hariharan (Venky) says fundamentally it’s language.

Getting AI to generate a sentence in Malayalam or Tamil or any other regional language is dearer than generating one in English. He shared a sentence as an example: “People should benefit from AI, regardless of the language they speak.”