BharatGen Ai is fundamentally different. It is not about making us more productive But about reviving tradition
It has been a hundred years since Bernard Shaw won the Nobel prize. The IIT ecosystem is about as old as Shaw has been dead. Shaw also won an Oscar. But he disagreed with Adam smith who wrote the marquee book “wealth of nations” a good 250 years ago.
Adam smith was an economist. His theory was that by dividing a job into pieces, it could be done more efficiently. He gave the example of pin making:
“One man draws out the wire, another straights it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds it at the top for receiving the head;…I have seen a small manufactory of this kind where ten men only were employed… . But if they had all wrought separately and independently… they certainly could not each of them have made one pin in a day.”
By the time Shaw looked at pin making, both the artisanal pin maker (an artist) and the pin making factory (industrial age wonder) were dead. Someone had made a pin making machine which just churned out pins. No one other than the machine maker knew how pins were made.
The reality is that the industrial age stole the livelihood of the artisanal pin maker. And shifted it to dumb robotic workers. They lacked creativity and finally self respect. In the bargain pins became ubiquitous and worthless. Apple still has them in some products to help release the SIM card. So a pin is not useless as yet.
Now let’s see what Bharat Gen, India’s sovereign ai could do to the extinct artisanal pin maker. It will help him get back into business by enabling him to deliver a artisanal pin to be sold as a piece of art without needing a factory, labour or lots of man hours. It will let him express his thoughts on a pin as a pin which someone can use. Whether it is to hide a wardrobe malfunction, to eject a SIM card or to replace a stapler. Chat gpt or Gemini or deep seek is not going to do that. And it’s going to do that to a whole host of extinct artisans, ancient wisdom purveyors and traditional arts.
Tomorrow is the 5th of December, the day we had set for launch of a new generation of ai months ago. And true to the plan, Bharat Gen will beta test Ayur param – a LLM for Ayurveda practitioners. An inference engine so powerful based on ancient treatise in over 20 languages that it will hold more knowledge on Ayurveda than Lord Dhanvantri himself.
Tomorrow is also the day when Ayurveda Revisited – the treatise on Ayurveda by engineer VishwaGuru Prof Shantaram Kane and Christina W. Watson will top the charts on Amazon. And no other ai model has access to work by IITians on ayurveda. No ai engine knows that the only lifetime achievement award of Ayush was not won by a Vaid but by a professor of chE from IIT bombay. We already have an ai based nadi reader called nadi tarangini from an iitb startup.
12 noon on the 5th of December, we challenge any foundational ai in the world to beat Ayur Param by Bharat Gen.