{"id":1048188,"date":"2026-11-09T12:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T06:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1048188"},"modified":"2026-11-09T12:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T06:41:10","slug":"language-and-ai-a-piece-of-token-appreciation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/11\/09\/language-and-ai-a-piece-of-token-appreciation\/","title":{"rendered":"Language and AI: A piece of token appreciation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2014now counted as Tier I countries. How did things get to be this way? Policy wonk Venky Hariharan (Venky) says fundamentally it\u2019s language.<\/p>\n<p>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: \u201cPeople should benefit from AI, regardless of the language they speak.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2014now counted as Tier I countries. How did things get to be this way? Policy wonk Venky Hariharan (Venky) says fundamentally it\u2019s 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: \u201cPeople should benefit from AI, regardless of the language they speak.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1048188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1048190,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048188\/revisions\/1048190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}