Technology behaves differently in India. The smartphone, for instance, is not simply a device here, it's the only device for millions. For many of India's more than 970 mn internet subscribers, it's their bank branch, office, classroom, TV, booking counter and storefront. Which is why India may become one of the most important places in the world for the next phase of AI.
In the last few years, our relationship with AI has been defined by the prompt. We've been encouraged to speak the machine's language - learn prompt engineering from AI experts on Instagram and YouTube - to achieve useful results. The assumption underlying this has remained the same: humans must adapt to machines.
