It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
And Galgotias sure had a lot of fight in it, except that it dragged itself into more muck.
GALGOTIAS UNIVERSITY did not just tell a lie about the Chinese robot.
That was early on Tuesday.
The lie was caught by Tuesday, Feb 17, afternoon.
At 7:49 pm, Feb 17, Tuesday, Galgotias issued the official statement, duly tweeting it on its official handle.
Galgotias was asked to vacate the pavilion early morning yesterday, Wednesday, Feb 18.
IT WAS THEN THAT GALGOTIAS DECIDED TO TELL MORE LIES MORE BRAZENLY.
It fielded NEHA SINGH, the same person who had told the lies about the Chinese robot, to defend its position.
NEHA SINGH spent all of Wednesday at the pavilion, claiming that journalists had misunderstood, had twisted, had taken out of context, had misinterpreted, had failed to understand what she had said a day earlier, and continued to insist that
“NOTHING WRONG HAD BEEN SAID,” and
“WE ALL KNOW HOW SOCIAL MEDIA BUZZ IS CREATED” and that
“WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THE IMPORTANT WORK THAT GALGOTIAS WAS DOING” and that the
“ROBOT IN QUESTION WAS AT THE PAVILION FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND HAS NOW BEEN SENT TO CAMPUS TO FULFIL THE PURPOSE WHICH IT IS MEANT FOR”.
Galgotias representative demonstrates robotic dog at AI Summit pavilion
Now, I have been told by friends covering the AI Summit that the decision to throw out Galgotias from the pavilion was not taken because of the ROBOT CONTROVERSY on Tuesday, but because of the MESS that Galgotias made on WEDNESDAY – with NEHA SINGH giving exclusive interviews to more than 16 journalists, and speaking to more than 70 journalists for more than four hours on Wednesday.
ALL THE STATEMENTS GIVEN OUT BY THIS NEHA SINGH were hours after the following statement issued by Galgotias —
“We at Galgotiass University wish to apologise profusely for the confusion created at the recent AI Summit. One of our representatives, manning the pavilion, was ill-informed. She was not aware of the technical origins of the product and in her enthusiasm of being on camera, gave factually incorrect information even though she was not authorised to speak to the press.”
Please don’t give the DOG a CHINESE name and hang him. Someone else is to blame.
As a dog lover, AI ones included, I am reminded of Pablo Neruda’s “My dog has died.”
“There are no good-byes for my dog who has died,
and we don’t now and never did lie to each other.”
Galogotia did.
The dog did not.
Then Galgotias did it again.
It told lies scores of times in the course of two days.
The dog did not lie even once.
It was just an obedient dog.
And now it has been found that the same NEHA SINGH at the same AI SUMMIT pavilion had told even more fantastic lies about another miracle – a DRONE procured from SOUTH KOREA, and portrayed it as “END-TO-END ENGINEERED AT OUR CAMPUS.”
In Ray Bradbury’s 1953 dystopian novel, Fahrenheit 451, books are banned and burnt, and the Mechanical Hound, a robotic dog enforcer that tracks and eliminates dissenters, emerges as one of the most powerful symbols about voluntary conformity, technological distraction, and the quiet surrender of intellectual freedom. Between Galgotias and Neha Singh, I re-lived the novel after many years. So, Galgotias, thank you.
It’s not the genuineness of the dog in the fight, it’s the idiocy of the girl/university in the ring. 
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