Embarrassed with our CEOs
First of all that event with sam altman was embarrassing. The aftermath was even more embarassing, leading the embarrassment squad was https://twitter.com/C_P_Gurnani/status/1667140990413537284?t=dei0Qm2UKg8SZNb4fHEAmA&s=19
Dude accepted the challenge while paying his engineers 2.5LPA, running a service based company. After this he wants to compete with a proper product.
His following tweets are just BS inspirational quotes and generic tweet about ramping investment in R&D. But how are you going to compete with open ai? Nothing has been said.
As Indians we have a very big ego, instead of accepting something as feedback why do we always go all out and try to match the other person by words and not action. Then these leaders will go and say action matters a lot more than words.
Admittedly, Sam didn't even mean that indian companies are hopeless. It's just that with 10M he said it's hopeless to compete on foundational models of open ai.
We don't have a tech leader or an ecosystem where we can say that we can take on open ai. We don't even have a global product that competes with big tech. So why are we full of anger if somebody points out a fact.
In comments, can we discuss a solution to the tech ecosystem being shit so we build the foundation on which we can eventually compete on a global level?
That ceo fellow is what you call hot air balloon. Literally zero knowledge of how things work but have to say something / anything that makes him ‘sound’ smart.
Yeah, Just Clown Thing
For me, the solution to this is to have more open source projects on different things. Doesn't have to be innovative, it just has to exists and be run so that we'll get into optimisation problems.
These things will lead to creating even more OSS having learnt the problems and generalising stuff. Eventually we'll get to a point where we first compete with the likes of next/remix.
The project will then have people who branch out because of common interests and build something better on top of this or something completely new.
For me innovation is nothing but iterations and starts with something very simple.
But right now we have to sow the seeds for that simple thing and get people into and make it work for a long period before we get to open ai.
