A Chatbot That Won't Take Bribes for Giving Advice Is a Hit in India
Six months after OpenAI unveiled ChatGPT, trials in India are harnessing the technology to help some of the nation’s poorest people.
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ChatGPT quickly found a home in the sophisticated echelons of investment banks and drug design firms. Now, the advanced artificial intelligence is coming to a huge workforce that’s largely tech-illiterate and non-English speaking: India’s domestic workers, waste recyclers and struggling farmers.
In the crowded neighborhoods of Bangalore, ragpickers, cooks and cleaners are taking part in an AI trial aimed at helping some of the nation’s poorest people access money from government anti-poverty programs without getting snarled in red tape and corruption.