denel
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Friend you truly do not know how much good research in this field is being done by many researchers in Pak at educational instititions - just look up Akram, you will find his tonnes of contributions in this field. AI is too high a term - I can take a good bet with you - if i were to ask the question from these people - i would get words like tensorflow etc etc... WRONG - what is the mathematical basis for it is where you start from. PAF or who ever are end users where problem statements can be given from. Let them do their job and let researchers outside do their work.We must take things for what they're worth.
This new institution is a great initiative by the PAF but it obviously speaks highly of the utter failure of our policymakers (i.e the civilian government) in capitalizing and investing in new technologies and in making sustainable human resource development. I have looked at government documents dating back to the 80s and they mention institutions which were created and then left to rot and which continue to serve as monuments to the criminality and insincerity of our policymakers. The way this country has been fooled and looted makes for a bloody and pathetic story.
We have built buildings for some idiot minister to inaugurate and then they serve as excellent job-handouts to our jiyalas and patwaris. We continue to do this to this day. And in all likelihood this will continue regardless of what PM IK and some of his patriotic and dedicated partners choose to do.
Our political elite and bureaucracy are a national security threat and the sooner we realize that the better chance we have of survival.
Coming to the PAF, this institution will serve as a nucleus of efforts in the AI and computing area, which may or may not have significant advantages as far as indigenous capability development is concerned.
But we don't really believe that do we?
Because it's not the PAF's fault that the country's schools produce students whose only aim in life is to get an A1 grade with 85% or more in the board exams and sit for University entry tests which judge a student's ability to cram rather than his understanding of fundamental concepts or his problem solving abilities.
The students who go through this entire process and come out on top are the 'creme de la creme' of the nation. But they really can not stand up to the demands of the modern world. Even if they can, they don't stay in Pakistan any longer to find out. They go to Germany or the US and never some back.
If they do come back out of patriotism, then they are hounded by the empty headed colonels and brigadiers that are tasked with judging who is a RAW agent and who is not. They are bullied by the military sentries at the gates of their workplace. They are regarded as second class citizens and treated as mere demonstrators when some General or Admiral or ACM is being shown around by a uniformed stooge whose only aim is to impress the boss.
The military guy in charge of their project (he's always military, along with another empty headed stooge who's responsible for 'admin' duties i.e. secorty) demands results without any regard for the subtle nuances of R&D. This directly results in fudging of test data and other information to satisfy the boss. I have bee a witness to this first hand.
So in short, what the PAF will get out of this initiative depends on what it is willing to put in. If it has the commitment and patience to put the right people at the right positions regardless of whether they're civilians or military, if it is willing to treat civilian staff with the same respect and reverance as the military staff and provide them the same perks and privileges, then maybe we can hope to achieve something.
If not, then I can totally see us fooling ourselves (no one else is fooled) 20 years later by presenting another 'indigenous' aircraft of which 58% has been made in Pakistan.
To put these quasi- mil people on pedestal is not right. You need to have educational institutions as well as industries which can leverage the research and partner with them. If you state this is not so, you are quiet right, it is a total failure as a nation then to elevate educational; i am telling you it is a false narrative - there are very good researchers in Pak who i have partnered with in this field. But alas noone internally in your country appreciates their contribution to this field except outsiders.