What do you think of India's IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw comparing the Indian government's efforts to build a localised AI model to sending a mission to the moon at a fraction of the cost?
Last Updated: 29.06.2025 00:03
So i doubt India ruffled any feathers with a moon mission
Is it not an entirely different ball game?
Now India has to make a Galardo and compete with a Ferrari made by the States and a Porsche made by China
Didn't the States put living people on the moon?
Without any of this being discussed, Ashwin going directly to cost, seems a very untenable argument
For one thing, moon travel is not a commercial thing and the benefits of moon travel are primarily futuristic and at a level which cannot be immediately monetized
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So if you translate his speech, is he saying India would create a low cost AI model which will fulfil some very basic objectives and not be anywhere near the level of the latest versions of GPT or Deepseek?
Was that a comparable argument ?
On the other hand, a mission to the moon, something already done by everyone else of consequence, is not something that would challenge anyone's interest in any way
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It is a strange argument
I don't think the Big 5 Companies will take that lying down and may place a lot of obstacles in India's way
So the Minister gave an erroneous analogy which makes me wonder if he knows what he is talking about
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Would you be able to tell me how either benefited the Indian population?
Your Mars mission was also inexpensive because it was extremely basic
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Ashwin talked of the Moon mission being at a fraction of the cost but did he also talk of the objectives of the various moon missions of other countries?
Does India have critical areas that need AI models?
A Maruti 800 and a Ferrari both transport people from one point to another but their entire purpose is extremely different is it not?
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India made a Maruti 800 that could take a trip between two places, at a lower cost that the States that had a Ferrari take the same trip long ago
Does India have the necessary AI Talent?
The only answer would be a possible advantage for ISRO, sometime in the distant future
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The States and China, they did a lot more in Mars than India did in terms of exploration and study
Developing a Multimodal AI means challenging a 500 Billion dollar to possibly 1 Trillion dollar worth of investments made by the Big 5 Companies in the States - Google, Meta, Amazon, Oracle and Microsoft
A second point is - the Moon Mission was inexpensive because it was extremely basic
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Does India have the necessary set up in place?
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Didn't the Chinese ones bring some soil back?