IT Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar on whether he uses ChatGPT, Bard: 'I am all over the place'

Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar at the CNBC-TV18 and Moneycontrol Global AI Conclave on Saturday. (Image credit: YouTube/Moneycontrol).

The introduction and development in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) has made professionals in various industries use the technology to get work done more efficiently and in a reduced amount of time.

The AI bug also seems to have caught on to some of India's politicians, including Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar who, when asked how much he used different AI tools such as ChatGPT and Bard, said that he was all over the place.

"I am all over the place. I am also on the dark internet," Chandrasekhar said at the CNBC-TV18 and Moneycontrol Global AI Conclave in Bengaluru on Saturday.

Chandrasekhar cited talent as a key challenge for AI and said that there was an increasing need for institutions and universities who offered Masters' programme in AI.

"Talent is a much more fundamental challenge in AI. We need universities to churn out masters and PhDs in AI. Talent is something that keeps me awake at night. The infrastructure pieces will get solved very quickly," he said.

Chandrasekhar also felt that there was a paradigm shift in the way students and institutions have been measured today, as compared to 15 years ago.

"15 years ago you measured academic institutions by how many students got hired by Google or went abroad. Now it is about what kind of platforms the students of a particular institution are building for the world," the minister said.

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