- Published on July 10, 2024
- In AI Features
Vivekananda Pani on Building ‘AI Rocket’ for India
“Scaling the moon is actually a lot of distance. If you walk, it would take 25 lives, versus if you build a rocket today, you will reach it in a month.”
- By Mohit Pandey
The Indic data problem has been on every Indian AI researcher's mind. One of the primary challenges in developing AI for Indian languages is the scarcity of high-quality data. Unlike English, which has a vast amount of digital content available, Indian languages lack sufficient natural data to train AI models.
"For Indian languages, or any language other than English, this has not been true [availability of data online], because of which we do not have a large amount of natural data,” Vivekananda Pani, the CTO and co-founder of Reverie Language Technologies, told AIM.
Various approaches are being considered to address this data problem. One involves using artificial methods to augment existing data, such as converting English data into Indian languages using machine translation.&nb
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Mohit Pandey
Mohit writes about AI in simple, explainable, and often funny words. He's especially passionate about chatting with those building AI for Bharat, with the occasional detour into AGI.
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