[dukeluke]

Those jobs would have been shipped to India eventually anyway. Global corporations don't care about silly things like stable economies. They care about the bottom line.

Edit: to those downvoting me, can you please explain why? Am I wrong in some way?

[FullMtlAlcoholc]

Just speculating, but positions in AI are usually filled by people with PhD's and this knowledge is so scarce in the job market, not low level IT pros who are competing in a race to the bottom

[dukeluke]

What keeps other countries like India from developing PhD's like that? It seems like they would have a strong incentive to do so.

[johncolanduoni]

Well in a sense they already do, but mostly at US universities.

[FullMtlAlcoholc]

I would imagine the quality of their university systems. I get the feeling that most top quality professors would not like to work for a university system run by the Indian government.

[tachyonbeam]

India doesn't have top universities and top research talent.

[whitenoice]

Do you have any source on India not having top research talent? From my understanding India has good amount of research and tech talent but it suffers a lot from brain drain to US universities. Especially students graduating from Indian institute of technology, national institute of technology + many more. In fact if you look into student (masters, phd) profiles of top US engineering schools like MIT, CMU, Stanford etc. most of the Indian students there have graduate degress from those Indian schools and they are in huge numbers. (who eventually end up at these companies or starting their own)

One of the main reasons for lack of research in India is lack of funding. Its nothing compared to US universities. But that does not imply it lacks talent. In fact primality test in polynomial time was founded by computer scientists at IIT - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AKS_primality_test.

[tmsldd]

If the prophecy materializes into a exodus of brain from the Valley, I would expect very skilled and trained Indians to go back and, depending on the environment they find home, there would be no reason why their couldn't stabling top research and start ups in their homeland.

[devdoomari]

aren't IITs top univ.s?

[akinalci]

Certainly some of them are for undergraduate education, but I'm not sure they're top research universities.

[dukeluke]

Maybe not now, but I assure you there many smart people trying to build the infrastructure and plenty of smart talent that could be utilized.