Are you aware that Delhi's pollution this Diwali broke all previous records, and that the so-called educated and uneducated alike enjoyed polluting Delhi's sky for a moment of inertial fun? Is there a gadget we need next Diwali in Delhi to save our children's lives from alarming and ever-rising pollution?
For a wiser answer, you must be AI-smart, and your family must be AI-supersmart. Otherwise, the day is not far when people may start dying in Delhi from ever-rising pollution. I saw educated as well as uneducated people burning crackers, masks on, for that inertial fun. The educated brat has loved it since his skewed and unwise childhood. He is not changing his behaviour. How do we handle a brat who is educated? Who will bell the bright brat cat? Who will smartly train the brats and finally sensitise them?
Experienced, smart mothers know the art well. They excel at smartly supervising wiser natural models called children. They own a magical wand that helps them enforce even dark solutions. For us Desis it is: Laaton ke bhoot, baaton se nahi maante. To reform big, spoilt children, we even need agentic AI. By next Diwali, if our prediction holds, Indian agentic AI will be in the market, in mobile app stores, perhaps with a magical wand to catch the offenders red-handed.
First, meet clever Ms Eka. She is our agentic AI.
Agents do not wait for humans to give them instructions. Agents define a "broader objective" on their own. They break it into subtasks, and thus Eka can plan her own path. She uses tools like APIs, browsers and databases, observes results, and sharpens her strategy until her focused goal is achieved.
So, Eka is free to exercise her choices, and is thus a sovereign female in a binary AI model with enormous quantum possibilities. She also trains smartness into an otherwise dedicated guy, Dheer, designed for smartphones as an ideal AI assistant. Dheer is lightweight. Dheer can reside on our smartphones, can protect us from external attacks, and is not dependent on cloud connectivity.
Dheer is an open-source model. You can think of Dheer as a knowledge-retrieval expert. He is very useful for internet-dark areas, with his "genuine" guardrails. He is perfectly designed to serve as a dedicated and loyal soldier. He is trained and tested not only by Indian Eka, but by many global Ekas, including those of rival nations. So his job is tough. He needs anti-honey-trapping training too, to preserve national secrets as well as personal secrets, which makes Dheer an extremely loyal, personal sahayak, who signifies knowledge for an Indian AI model.
Eka becomes a wise sahayika who chooses her task partner. She uses her experiential wisdom and updates Dheer's localised knowledge with the global knowledge needed to handle foreign AI agents. Any perfect AI model works like this. It has a guy who is good at documenting, and a girl who calls the shots. She takes the creative lead using her wisdom. Dheer supports Eka with options, through localised automation of global knowledge, mapping it to our smartphones. This helps you and me keep our data safe locally. It enhances privacy, accessibility and security.
In the AI era, for decent folks, the simple news is: India is all set to soon train its smart AI. Smart means one who knows the artistic science of smart shopping. One capable of saving you from cyber frauds, digital arrests and more. Yes, folks! The news is dhamakedaar this Diwali season. It has all the elements of a man-woman relationship. Let us know more about a couple where the wife has honey-trapping skills, and her husband is a brave, loyal soldier for your own smartphones.
So, India, now you are an AI-literate family. But if AI is deemed the software mind of a hardware body, then we are yet to meet the hardware parents of our Desi AI couple. In today's AI-smart world of electronics, it simply means two motherchips: a wise chip in our smartphone, and a SuperWise chip serving the circuit of the AI server. Simply because a smartphone user raises queries to loyal, brave and well-trained Mr Dheer. This query is processed by the processor hardware of your smartphone before it is forwarded to any AI server.
Our smartphones are clients in this case. So, not just Dheer and Eka, but we have a motherchip in our smartphones, which must be Swadeshi if we Indians want a digitally sovereign status for ourselves in the world of AI-smart electronics.
Thus, if intelligence represents the brain, and our Eka, as a clever heart, emotes the brain, then we need to train the Indian brain not to get seduced by agentic AIs of enemy nations. This is the job of a digitally sovereign couple - to make sure that the task partner remains loyal not only to the mother of the smartphone user's chip, but also to an Indian Supermother chip, Vidya Devi, who is designed to train loyalty in a digitally sovereign AI model.
In fact, at the hardware level, C-DAC has yet to achieve it. Our hardware father, the Swadeshi AI server, is wedded not to an Indian mother as of now. Here lies the catch of the brats puzzle. How do we train brats with a foreign mother serving our father? So there is no Desi Mom who invokes the Laaton ke bhoot, baaton se nahi maante formula or any other alternate technique to train brats. Let brats not get the crackers if they use AI to purchase them. If they make a query to AI to get more information, Dheer will use its guardrails to make sure that, at least digitally, the facilitation of illegal cracker sales is stopped.
As the AI father itself represents intelligence and needs parental guidance from the feminine trait, here a local wife becomes the lovely sweetheart of our hardware father, the moment Desi AUM is taped out. We, the journalists, grasped this story when we visited the Semicon exhibition held in September in Yashobhoomi. C-DAC scientists at their stall said the Indian motherchip for the Deshi AI server Param RUDRA is in an advanced stage of development. Once launched, the AI couple will be trained on competent Desi hardware
With the launch of Eka and Dheer, we Indians are in a commanding position to evolve as a global leader in artificial intelligence. They are guided by a big vision to make a robust Indian AI model and to make it work for the whole world.
The Deshi AI model is being developed under the IndiaAI Mission, a flagship initiative by the Government of India to build a comprehensive, sovereign and inclusive Desi AI ecosystem. Our IndiaAI Mission was approved by the Union Cabinet on March 7, 2024. In such a short span of time, the fact that India's AI model is making fast progress is itself the news. Time now to summarise the citizens' frustration on Diwali pollution with a Bollywoodia Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro attitude towards brats. After all, brats are our own people. We can't be hard on them. They can also have fun in life, even at the cost of our lives theoretically, on all the pressing issues of social concern affecting us, be it crackers or any other frustration. The better solution to the problem of frustration is to divert attention. So here is a Bollywoodia angle in training our Desi Yugal.
If Indian AI has to learn honey-trapping from our own Bollywood audio-visual literature, we have so many movies to train her. Make Eka watch Aitraaz (2004), Jism (2003), Ajnabee (2001) and Murder (2004) to train on the feminine aspects of smart trapping. Let us think of a charming girl as an AI agent to reform the brats. Let us arrest them digitally the moment they ask their AI for the source of illegal crackers, or look for cheap crackers using the AI path.
So, the roadmap is clear. That day is not far off when Deshi hardware couples Eka and Dheer will help create an exponential number of software couples, who, as binary pairs, will help us Indians become digitally sovereign, using an enormous number of quantum possibilities as an obvious solution to our pressing problems. It sounds dreamy, but who stops us from deciphering the quantum scripts of varied children, "brats" as well as "loyal ones", from the same binary couple, as a genetic progeny? Mother Nirupa Roy in the Bollywood movie Deewaar had two sons, after all. One was Vijay, and the other Ravi. One had to be killed, as Vijay was not on the right side of the law. In the same way, if not killed, at least brats shall be punished for their ignorance of an obvious sin. If not legally, then maybe reformed smartly.
Let us honey-trap such brats, as Jijaji Mr Om Prakash was trapped by Biology Professor Mr. Parimal in a landmark role of Pyare Mohan. His grip over Desi bhasha, a short language but effective model, was backed so well by his wife's agentic smartness. Often we see that Mother Goddess Wealth is kind to him, as Lakshmi is his aaradhya, while he lacks the kripa of Mother Goddess Saraswati.
So, as satire, India, you have to train Desi AI models with such funny movies to reform all such brats. Why only Fufa jis? Jijajis also. So that learning is fun. This Diwali, let us take a resolve that, as parents, we will also make our children learn the art of AI-smart shopping.
After all, in our lives, as we select our own life partners or business partners or jobs for ourselves, we are, to an extent, doing smart shopping. So, in order to handle tough brats, we must learn from agentic AI assistants their funny tricks of honey-trapping the bad brats, Chupke Chupke way.
The writer is ADG, Press Information Bureau, Govt of India