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“According to a report by a NASA scientist, USA is going to create 6th and 7th generation supercomputers based on Sanskrit language by 2025 and 2034 respectively”
Social media posts Claim dated 9 Jul 2021.
FACTLY rated thisFALSE

What FACTLY found

There is no evidence to show that a report by a NASA scientist says that America is working on 6th and 7th generation supercomputers based on Sanskrit language. A 1985 paper published by Rick Briggs just says that Sanskrit could be used for knowledge representation in artificial intelligence research; it doesn’t talk about any supercomputers based on Sanskrit language for America. According to an Associate Professor from IIT Kharagpur, “Sanskrit, like any other natural language such as Englis...

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In short

This claim spread on social media around 9 July 2021. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 29 December 2021, 173 days later. Its rating was “FALSE”.

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