Truly, the audacity of this Chini-American sepoy to pontificate on matters they’ve barely grazed with their superficial grasp is a marvel to behold. The sheer volume of corporate drivel and policy nonsense being churned out by what’s essentially a souped-up search engine is, quite frankly, unhinged.
Let’s get one thing straight: the grand narrative that AI’s primary use case revolves around large language models is a steaming pile of hogwash. Real AI—actual, practical applications—has been quietly humming along for nearly two decades, even in cash-strapped institutions that can barely afford a pencil sharpener. Did it usher in a utopian revolution? Hardly. It just spared some poor sods the monotony of sifting through static data ad nauseam. Groundbreaking? Not even close.
And these so-called “neural networks” that supposedly “train” AI? Please. They’re little more than glorified pattern recognition systems—relics of 1950s and ‘60s electrical switch logic, gussied up with some modern flair. Input goes in, output comes out, and if it’s wrong, you tweak the weights and biases like a mechanic fiddling with a rusty carburetor. The idea that this will somehow scale to artificial general intelligence (AGI) is a fantasy so detached from reality it’s almost performance art. Trillions of dollars will vanish into this black hole of hype, and the grand finale will be a collective shrug: “Nope, can’t do AGI with this junk.”
But, oh, the economy will love it! And here’s where our enlightened author singles out India—because, naturally, in their myopic worldview, India is just a sprawling call center staffed by software grunts, ripe for replacement by LLMs. Meanwhile, the Chinese and Americans sit pretty, untouchable in their ivory towers. The irony is thicker than a poorly optimized codebase.
I won’t bore you with a binary “yes or no” verdict—life’s too messy for that. Instead, picture this: a Frankenstein’s monster of compounded AI agents, stitching together LLMs and some duct-taped programming logic tools. It might stumble along, sure, but it’ll still need a human babysitter to keep it from drooling all over itself. Progress? Maybe. AGI? Keep dreaming.
AGI if that ever comes out then not only India but whole planet is
