Will even common people with smart phones be able to ask chatgpt about government schemes soon? Yes, you can ask, talk! India will try to achieve this goal by connecting the Bhasha Dan project, which is part of Atmanirbhar Bharat, and ChatGPT through WhatsApp. Efforts are being made to do this, but there is still doubt as to whether it will be open for everyone to use. Even Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is aware of the introduced technology.

∙ ChatGPT may also reach rural India

Globally, the competition between Google and Microsoft for the next level of internet search supremacy is intensifying. In the meantime, don’t be surprised to see AI chat system ChatGPT tie up with WhatsApp for government-related inquiries in India (especially to inform farmers about schemes), reports the Indian Express. ChatGPT is a venture in which Microsoft has invested a lot of money.

∙ There is also a massive project that accepts sound samples

A team named Bhashini working under the Union Ministry of Electronics is developing a chatbot that can be operated centrally by WhatsApp. The aim of the Center is to provide easy access to appropriate reply through ChatGPT to those who raise queries about Central Schemes and others. Brihad will also be brought up at the national level to collect voice samples to study the way people speak, including in various Indian languages.

∙ May be able to understand speech patterns

This data collection is also intended to be linked to ChatGPT. India will use crowd sourcing model to collect data. This will be a smart move as farmers and others in rural areas may not type their queries and ask. The chatbot is made capable of responding even by asking questions in the form of voice notes. It could be developed in such a way that ChatGPT answers voice questions by voice itself.

∙ Introduced to Nadela

According to the report, the chatbot being developed by the center was introduced to Microsoft chief Satya Nadella, who mentioned the matter at the World Economic Forum in Davos this year. It is also reported that a chatbot will be created to easily answer queries about PM Awas Yojana. This chatbot, which is in the experimental stage, is being developed keeping in mind the rural population of India. With this, it will be possible for anyone to understand information about things like government subsidy in their own language. For this, there is a need for a language model that incorporates the speech patterns of rural India.

∙ A lot of data is needed to succeed

While ChatGPT’s ability to provide simple answers to even complex questions is being hailed worldwide, it needs to be further developed to include Indian languages as well. Only then will Bhashini be able to connect and run WhatsApp. For this, a large database of regional languages spoken in India may be required.

∙ Importance of Language Gift

Bhasha Daan is a project of India. This project aims to collect speech patterns of various Indian languages through crowdsourcing. People can record their voice on the website for this. Most of the people who will use the chatbot being developed in India with ChatGPT are unlikely to know English. This is where schemes like Bhasha Dhan come into play. Enough sound samples have already been collected to solve this problem.

∙ Why WhatsApp?

The trial phase has started in 12 Indian languages including Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Kannada etc. The project aims to provide accurate answers to questions asked in any of these languages using a chatbot. As WhatsApp has more than 50 crore users in India, the government is planning to run the chatbot in collaboration with the app.

∙ Limitations at the beginning

During the testing phase, the chatbot will only be able to answer very simple questions related to government schemes. This is mainly due to the current limitations of ChatGPIT. The data provided by ChatGPIT is till 2021. That means chatgpt is now not allowed to fetch live data from internet. However, that may soon change. It is expected that the chatbot will be able to provide better response when moving to GPT-3.5.

∙ Nadela said

Nadella said he saw a rural Indian farmer trying to access a government program. He said the farmer uttered some complex thought in the local language and the chatbot translated and understood it. The chatbot then told the farmer to go to a portal and perform the required tasks. But the farmer said he never goes to any portal, ‘You’ should do it for me. Nadella said the chatbot has done that for the farmer, and this is because Indian developers have linked it to central government records and voice recognition methods.

∙ Not sure if it will come

Meanwhile, there are still doubts about whether the chatbot will be operational in India. Perhaps the reason is the skepticism that exists in the country about how to embrace an AI system. India, like other countries, has yet to implement any important legislation related to AI.