Chaiti Narula

On my VIP armor front, I apparently did have a table seating for the @PMOIndia summit dinner! However, the magical email that allows me in wasn't sent..🤷‍♂️ Too bad I missed catching up with Raj Reddy. I did instead have a lovely dinner with my friend and his family, so all's well!

Oh no! Apparently there are chinks in my VIP armor.. I didn't score an invite for the summit dinner with @PMOIndia 😭

Bill Gates pulled out of India's AI Impact Summit hours before his scheduled keynote address on February 19, dealing another blow to a flagship event already marred by organizational lapses, a robot bungle and delegate complaints over traffic disruptions reut.rs/4qDuerP

Just got back from the @OfficialINDIAai Impact Summit in Delhi yesterday, and honestly, it left a really bad taste. I went as a researcher and someone building an AI startup for promoting Indian languages, really looking forward to Yann LeCun's 3.45 talk on world models in the research symposium. From 3 pm though, security just locked down every single entry for "VIP movement." They told us to walk all the way around the premises. I did it too, like a fool, sweating for 25 minutes, only to get to the hall and hear the exact same thing again: "Abhi VIP movement hai, entry band hai." People who were already inside the venue? I saw them get evacuated too to clear space for the VIPs. And this wasn't even once. In the morning, when I was walking from Gate 7 to Gate 4, near Gate 5 everyone got stopped, made to turn back 100-150 meters and just stand there for 10-15 minutes because of another VIP movement. Both times, I felt like a third class citizen at an event that was supposed to be for people like me. Never felt so out of place and disrespected at anything AI related. The whole summit is, sorry was, meant for researchers, founders, builders who are grinding in the field every day. Instead we get treated like we don't matter, blocked for hours so some minister or official can pass through. And don't get me wrong. There were a lot of good things too, the @Sarvam launches were gold (much love and respect to them) and I met amazing startups at the booths building so many good products, but overall it came across way more like a government PR show to tell the world "look, India is doing AI" than a real gathering FOR the AI community. We have crazy good talent in AI here. If we ever want to be taken seriously on the global stage, we have to drop this VIP nonsense and start giving respect to the actual people doing the work. Not treat us like background noise. The good thing is that I have understood which events I need to avoid from now on. The ones that actually care about the community over the photo ops are the only ones worth going to. I hope things will be better soon!

So @DDNewslive deleted this video of @GalgotiasGU.

Please do not enroll your children into Galgotias University in India even though it was awarded the best private University by our honorable Prime Minister Shri. Narendra Modi. The Journal of Molecular Pharmaceuticals and Regulatory Affairs is a retired journal. Last publication was in 2019. matjournals.in/index.php/JMPR… There is a predatory version of the same journal which is also retired. Last publication was in 2022. matjournals.com/Journal-of-Mol… The paper written by a "Research Scholar" from Galgotias University, titled: "Corona Virus Killed by Sound Vibrations Produced by Thali or Ghanti: A Potential Hypothesis," is possibly published in the predatory one, not the original one...and retracted from there too. This was reported by Retraction Watch: retractionwatch.com/retracted-coro… Imagine the credibility of a researcher, of getting published in a predatory journal and getting retracted from a predatory journal? That is what Galgotias University does to its students.