Why do we fail to make Indian AI ?

Every transformative technological revolutions since the dawn of modern industrial period, has been brought and led by youngsters only. Youth were honed through groove of critical thinking and scientific temperament and were made to understand their responsibilities towards next generations and how important was to hard work for making human lives better. This still continues as we see great advancements blooming in west and in China, Japan and Korea being led by youth. Contrastingly, look what our youngsters are doing? For them participating in kanwad yatra, dips at Kumbh, being part of gangs of cow rakshaks or moral polices, promoting fake neo-mythical tales on reels and podcasts and hawking religious frenzy on streets are their ways for being successfully alive. These youngsters are not some uneducated ones, even persons who managed to study at prestigious IIT and IIMs can also be found doing these time-stalled rituals. Who will make Indian AI model?

Neither working 4 hrs extra every day waiting for Boss to leave office and spending weekends sorting his mails, nor raising a generation which loves dancing outside other places of worships and thrills partnering gangs preaching morality on streets, builds AI.

Why a lake or mountain must be place of worship to be of relevance to us?

I have been recently watching an arduous but beautiful journey of a youtuber biker travelling via Afganistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan Kazakhistan, Russia, Mangolia to Japan. The central Asia is beautiful with landscape we have only seen in pictures or paintings. The mountains, lakes and steppe are awesome. The remoteness itself is so pleasing and peaceful that one wishes to stay back there. At the same time these countries are reasonably developed with well to do people, great roads, and good facilities for visitors and tourists even in remote places. Most surprising had been an observation that so beautiful, vastnesses, lake and mountains, but none of them being worshipped by locals or cluttered with places of worship or dedicated to local deities. People go there only to look, appreciate and enjoy the raw nature. In contrast I never understood here in India why every place of natural wonder whether mountain, cave, lake must get dedicated to some deity and compulsorily must be a place of worship to be of any relevance for visiting it. Raw nature as it is given to us seems loses all meaning here.

UPI is good but not good

It is easy to blame commoners for their folly to fall prey but question should be how banking has become so transparently hackable. There has got be something missing in security protocols in banks which enables this. They must introspect. There used to be built in difficulty to transfer money earlier requiring some kind of physical contact like cheque, debit card, payout slip, signatures. Those have gone and replaced with four digit pins. This makes it easy to send money but for criminals too it has become much easier to crack and enter our accounts to syphon off savings.

There are much more secure and convenient ways to make quick payments by touch of phones, watches and cards which almost all other nations prefer. Using such physical interfaces for authenticating a transection is globally recognised and widely used safer practice. UPI even though no doubt, is hugely convenient but depends on virtual authentications using OTPs and PINs which have been observed to provide easier means for targeting bank accounts  by fraudsters. This is not considered a sound practice to promote quick street payments. UPI kind is a proven technology everywhere not something only India can have as some would like people to believe foolishly.