India teases AI plan to 'catalyse the next generation of the internet'

India's ebullient tech minister, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, has teased the release of guardrails for AI, plus publication of "one of the largest publicly assembled datasets in the world" as part of a forthcoming IndiaAI program that will explain how the nation puts artificial intelligence to work. "The program will be one of the …

[ChoHag]

Oh good. Let's test hyperersurveillance capitalism on a poor country first.

[chuckufarley]

Can the BBC...

...Still be appointed the role of "Chat Moderator?"

[Felonmarmer]

"The next generation of the internet" that governments want is something more controllable than the current internet. It doesn't take much guesswork to work out what the role of AI will be in a system like that.

Everything modded and censored to suit the viewpoint of those in charge, and if there's a few false positives due to AI doing what it does best, then you won't even hear about them.

[TeeCee]

India certainly has a lot of financial data to work from

The obvious problem there being that you probably want to train your ML models on data that is both correct and legal.

[Tron]

AI, the medicinal compound of our times.

AI is 'learning' from historical (out of date), inappropriate and inapplicable datasets and using it as a crystal ball, hoping the future repeats the past, every single time.

In the 70s you could buy a little card device that would allow you to spin two disks according to the past points tallies of football clubs, in the hope of bagging 8 score draws on your coupon.

AI is the modern version of that, with smoke and mirrors, lots of hype and a big fat price tag.

In short, AI is the Emperor's New Clothes.

There will be a dataset bubble until it all inevitably goes pear-shaped, and then AI will (finally) vanish from politicians' speeches, adverts and presentations.