As the AI Impact Summit drew to a close on Friday, it was clear that the government sought, if at least for a week, to make India the centre for all things AI in the world. The crowds showed up, with half-a-million attendees thronging the expo and crowding out all the session rooms. World leaders and Ministers from dozens of countries waded through the heavily-regulated traffic to attend. AI heavyweights such as Sam Altman and Dario Amodei deliver keynotes.
By all means, the users are there: in a report on Friday, OpenAI published a telling insight into how Indians use AI: ChatGPT prompts from here take advantage of the firm’s most advanced data analysis, writing and technical tools available on the platform. This, the firm says, means that Indians have largely closed the “capability overhang,” the gap between what the latest large language models can do, and what they’re actually used for.