Need an AI Smiley Between Eureka and Kodak Moments

While LLM development work can happen in cozy penthouses, noisy academic gullies need to train and build capacity to develop frugal and impactful AI solutions

- S Vaidhyasubramaniam Vice-Chancellor, SASTRA Deemed University

When Archimedes stepped into the bathtub and sensed that the overflowing volume of water was equal to the weight of his body part immersed in it, he stepped out in ecstatic "Eureka". When digital photography storm was blowing hard, Eastman Kodak did nothing about it and suffered its "Kodak" moment. Between the Eureka and Kodak moments lie the opportunity to innovate and build capacity. Is Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Education presenting such a huge opportunity? The development and adoption of AI is becoming a superpower showdown as the global 'Alms race' gets brutal and scarier. The effect of AI is seeing its premature outcomes faster than ever.

OpenAI and Google Deep Mind won gold in the International Maths Olympiad much ahead of the time it was predicted to. The compute power and size of the large language models (LLMs) will very soon establish global supremacy between the two warring giants-America and China. The global economic growth with AI replacing human tasks is predicted at unprecedented preposterous levels.