Robodog row: Galgotias out of AI Summit

Artificial intelligence met human stupidity in a huge embarrassment for the organisers of the Al Impact Summit, with claims by an exhibitor ,a Noida-based university, on developinga robotic dog and a “drone soccer arena” being belied by the fact that the firstis a Chinese product, and the second, a Korean one.

- Sejal Sharma

Visitors at the Galgotias University stall on Wednesday.

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The exhibitor, Galgotias University was asked and then forced to vacate its stall at the expo on Wednesday by the government.

“We want genuine exhibitors at the expo. We don’t want controversy around exhibits here. Plagiarism, misinformation cannot be encouraged. This should not overshadow the wonderful exhibits others have put out,” said IT minis-trysecretary S Krishnan ata press conference on Wednesday.

“The main problem is they (Gal-gotias) claimed to be something they are not. They misled. The whole world is here,” added Abhishek Singh, additional secretary at MeitY, and India AI Mission CEO. The conference is orga-nised by the IT ministry.