India Tells University To Leave AI Summit After Presenting Chinese Robot as Its Own (reuters.com) 11
An anonymous reader shares a report: An Indian university has been asked to vacate its stall at the country's flagship AI summit after a staff member was caught presenting a commercially available robotic dog made in China as its own creation, two government sources said.
"You need to meet Orion. This has been developed by the Centre of Excellence at Galgotias University," Neha Singh, a professor of communications, told state-run broadcaster DD News this week in remarks that have since gone viral.
But social media users quickly identified the robot as the Unitree Go2, sold by China's Unitree Robotics for about $2,800 and widely used in research and education globally. The episode has drawn sharp criticism and has cast an uncomfortable spotlight on India's artificial intelligence ambitions.
"You need to meet Orion. This has been developed by the Centre of Excellence at Galgotias University," Neha Singh, a professor of communications, told state-run broadcaster DD News this week in remarks that have since gone viral.
But social media users quickly identified the robot as the Unitree Go2, sold by China's Unitree Robotics for about $2,800 and widely used in research and education globally. The episode has drawn sharp criticism and has cast an uncomfortable spotlight on India's artificial intelligence ambitions.
Musk's playbook (Score:1)
Copying from Elon Musk's playbook only works if you can afford a team of lawyers and you are targeting Silicon Valley VC.
Re: (Score:3)
Copying from Musk's playbook would be taking a real dog and stuffing it in a full body spandex suit. What this is, I'm not sure. There doesn't seem to be enough detail. For one thing, it is an AI conference, not a robotics one. Technically, there should be nothing wrong with taking existing robotic hardware and presenting it as your creation if the _software_ is your own. The article says that the university says that they never claimed that the robot was a university creation. Also, it says that the Unitre
fake it till you make it (Score:1)
Re:fake it till you make it (Score:4, Insightful)
India didn't "miss" the AI boom, they and the Philpines are the mechanical turk behind the broken AI use cases like Waymo taxis and Amazon checkoutless stores.
Also, stop posting AI slop.
"Centre of Excellence" (Score:3)
That's usually analogous to seeing "Democratic Republic" in the name of a country.
Instead of doing the needful... (Score:2)
Ruff Ruff (Score:2)
Hey at least they didn't just put a dog in a suit to make it look like a robot.
liars (Score:2)
Liars get scammed by scammers. Running dogs of capitalism, or something like that.