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The global tech executive added that India too has a great desire for a sovereign AI that encapsulates the country’s languages and culture, and is advancing its innovation agenda on the back of a strong economy that is growing quickly.
“India is one of the countries that definitely has an abundance of talent, and is a great resource for Dell Technologies and many other companies, as they are advancing their innovation agenda,” Dell said.
“There is a great desire for more sovereign AIs..every country is going to want to do that, and India is a powerhouse. It has a great economy, it is growing quickly, and we are definitely seeing investments there aggressively,” the Dell founder said, addressing reporters at the Dell Technologies World event in Las Vegas Monday.
The IT company announced big strides in AI including an AI factory that gives organisations the infrastructure, solutions and services needed to adopt and deploy AI at scale, along with AI PCs and other AI tools for enterprises.
Like many companies, Dell too has a whole process that it uses around responsible use of AI, ther tech company CEO said.
He added that Dell has enacted governance models which every AI project is filtered through. “We are in control of the model, we are responsible for it. Our responsible AI strategy kicks in and we go through a lot of rigorous control to make sure precautions are taken.”
Dell believes eventually AI applications will be as broad as the internet and will be ubiquitous like the internet and electricity. “The early movers are making massive bets…we are at the beginning of the new Industrial Revolution.”
The executive added that in the wrong hands, and put to the wrong means, AI is a powerful threat. “AI should be trained within the perimeters of our morality, beliefs, laws, and our humanity, because eventually AI will be at the center of all our lives.”
“How much good AI can do is really up to all of us. We are unleashing this supergenious power. Everyone is going to get access to this technology and it is going to get smarter and more powerful,” he said.
Speaking at the event, Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang said that for the first time in history, we now have the ability to manufacture intelligence, adding that the data centers that were created for the last generation of IT are going to be completely modernised for the purpose of manufacturing intelligence at scale, becoming AI factories.
“The ability for these large infrastructures has completely reinvented computing as we know it..The entire computer stack has now changed. Instead of human engineering applications and programs written by people, we are now going to have the same people now cobbling together or assembling AI teams,” Huang said.
(The journalist is in Las Vegas at the invitation of Dell to cover the Dell Technologies World Event)