What do you think of India's IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw comparing the Indian government's efforts to build a localised AI model to sending a mission to the moon at a fraction of the cost?

It is a strange argument

A Maruti 800 and a Ferrari both transport people from one point to another but their entire purpose is extremely different is it not?

Was that a comparable argument ?

Trying To Build Muscle? Here's The Type Of Protein You Should Eat - Women's Health

On the other hand, a mission to the moon, something already done by everyone else of consequence, is not something that would challenge anyone's interest in any way

Does India have the necessary set up in place?

Does India have the necessary AI Talent?

Diddy Trial's Most Disturbing Claims: Week Six Breakdown - TooFab

—

For one thing, moon travel is not a commercial thing and the benefits of moon travel are primarily futuristic and at a level which cannot be immediately monetized

A second point is - the Moon Mission was inexpensive because it was extremely basic

Why do so many FtM people act like MtF people don't exist and what the hell am I supposed to do as an MtF person?

Developing a Multimodal AI means challenging a 500 Billion dollar to possibly 1 Trillion dollar worth of investments made by the Big 5 Companies in the States - Google, Meta, Amazon, Oracle and Microsoft

Is it not an entirely different ball game?

So the Minister gave an erroneous analogy which makes me wonder if he knows what he is talking about

What are some common examples of condescending behavior?

I don't think the Big 5 Companies will take that lying down and may place a lot of obstacles in India's way

Would you be able to tell me how either benefited the Indian population?

So i doubt India ruffled any feathers with a moon mission

Why are European countries warning European travelers to be careful traveling to the United States?

The only answer would be a possible advantage for ISRO, sometime in the distant future

—

Didn't the Chinese ones bring some soil back?

ISS Research & Development Conference Cancellation - NASA Watch

So if you translate his speech, is he saying India would create a low cost AI model which will fulfil some very basic objectives and not be anywhere near the level of the latest versions of GPT or Deepseek?

Does India have critical areas that need AI models?

The States and China, they did a lot more in Mars than India did in terms of exploration and study

How do you stop your balls from sweating?

Didn't the States put living people on the moon?

Now India has to make a Galardo and compete with a Ferrari made by the States and a Porsche made by China

India made a Maruti 800 that could take a trip between two places, at a lower cost that the States that had a Ferrari take the same trip long ago

NASA Releases Its Clearest Mars Images Yet – 140 Million Miles Away, And Everyone’s Noticing The Same Strange Thing - Indian Defence Review

Your Mars mission was also inexpensive because it was extremely basic

Ashwin talked of the Moon mission being at a fraction of the cost but did he also talk of the objectives of the various moon missions of other countries?

Without any of this being discussed, Ashwin going directly to cost, seems a very untenable argument

Has a cop ever said something to you which was completely unexpected?