Wearing two caps, one as an academic interested in the process of development; and one running an NGO in an isolated village making it happen (albeit very modestly) can be fun, because there is constant knowledge sharing and ideas borrowing from one to the other. There is regular experimentation, and by this I do not mean, large scale experiments which are very popular among economists now-a-days using students or subjects. I am referring to small trials without a control group and a treatment group, which do not require a lot of resources. Even these can be insightful. With these words, I invite you to read our short article in The Conversation on ChatGPT.
For some strange reason, this article elicited far more interest and republishing in Western Country outlets than in India or the Global South. I wonder why, especially as the Indian students I have taught via the NGO, all engineers, are so ga-ga about AI and courses on AI have become so popular now even among non-engineers everywhere! Where are we heading?
