BHASHINI (BHASHa INterface for India)

Why in news?

• MeitY’s BHASHINI is working on a ChatGPT-Powered WhatsApp Chatbot to help Indian farmers learn about various government schemes.

About BHASHINI:

• BHASHINI is India’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) led language translation platform.
• A Bhashini Platform will make Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) resources available to MSME (Medium, Small and Micro Enterprises), Startups and Individual Innovators in the public domain.
• Bhashini Platform is a part of the National Language Translation Mission.
• The mission aims to ensure that as more Indians connect to the internet, they are able to access global content in their own languages.

About ChatGPT:

• ChatGPT is a variant of GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) which is a large-scale neural network-based language model developed by OpenAI.
• GPT models are trained on vast amounts of text data to generate human-like text.
• It can generate responses to a wide range of topics, such as answering questions, providing explanations, and engaging in conversations.
• In addition to being able to "admit its mistakes, challenge false premises, and refuse unsuitable requests," the ChatGPT can also "answer follow-up questions."
• The chatbot was also trained using Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF).

Usage:

• It can be used in real-world applications such as digital marketing, online content creation, and answering customer service queries or as some users have found, even to help debug code.
• The bot can respond to a large range of questions while imitating human speaking styles. It is being seen as a replacement for basic emails, party planning lists, CVs, and even college essays and homework. It can also be used to write code.

ChatGPT-Powered WhatsApp Chatbot:

• It will let users send a question via voice notes.
• A user could simply ask a question using voice notes and receive a voice-based response generated by ChatGPT.
• The chatbot has been developing with the view of India’s rural and agrarian population that most depend on government schemes and subsidies.
• These potential users speak a wide range of languages, which makes it important to build a language model that can successfully identify and understand them.
• This will help numerous farmers in India who may not be familiar with typing on smartphones.

• The ChatGPT-powered WhatsApp chatbot will support 12 languages, including English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi etc.
• The majority of those who will use this chatbot would not know English, for which the Government's Bhasha Daan Initiative will be used.

PRACTICE QUESTION

Consider the following statements ‘BHASHINI’:

1. It is India’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) led language translation platform.

2.It is launched by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

(a) 1 only

(b) 2 only

(c) Both 1 and 2

(d) Neither 1 nor 2

Answer