OpenAI CEO says “Indians totally hopeless” comment taken out of context

Recently, Open AI CEO and creator of ChatGPT, Sam Altman, was in India as part of his six-nation tour. During his visit, he interacted with the students of the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi (IIIT-D) and met with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Altman was also a part of a conversation organised by the Economic Times. This was when a question was posed to Altman about India building something like ChatGPT. To this, the tech leader asserted that it would be “totally hopeless” for India to try and build something similar to ChatGPT.