ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN INDIA

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN INDIA

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in his budget speech had highlighted that technologies like Machine Learning, Artificial Iintelligence and others are the technologies of the future and Niti Aayog will establish a national programme to conduct research and development in these areas.

In the domain of Artificial Intelligence, NITI Aayog has been developing India’s national strategy on AI and is also reportedly in the advanced stages of creating the National Data and Analytics platform. The portal will be a shared India-specific blockchain infrastructure, aimed at making India a global leader on AI research, with focus on adopting AI to address problems faced in developing countries.

Amitabh Kant, Chief Executive Officer, NITI Aayog, said in a statement: “India is embracing future technologies such as machine learning and AI to augment its capacity in healthcare, improve outcomes in education, develop innovative governance systems and improve overall economic productivity of the nation.”

Training Initiatives

“NITI’s partnership with Google will unlock massive training initiatives, support start-ups and encourage AI research through Ph D scholarships, all of which contribute to the larger idea of a technologically-empowered New India,” he added.

Google and NITI Aayog will conduct hands-on training programmes that aim to sensitise policymakers and technical experts in governments about relevant AI tools and how they can be used to streamline governance.

To help bolster the research ecosystem, one of the initiatives includes funding Indian researchers, scholars and university faculty for conducting AI-based research.

Online courses

Further, Google will also bring its online training courses on AI and machine learning (ML), such as Google’s Machine Learning Crash Course to students, graduates and engineers to different cities across India in the form of study groups and developer-run courses.

There is an incubation programme wherein start-ups working in AI/ML space will be mentored by Google to better leverage AI in their respective business models.

NITI Aayog and Google will organise a AI/ML hackathon that will focus on solving key challenges in agriculture, education, healthcare, financial inclusion and transportation/mobility.

What is Artificial Intelligence??....

Artificial Intelligence is the development of computer systems that are able to perform tasks that would require human intelligence. Examples of these tasks are visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, and translation between languages..

It’s been a fascinating concept of science for decades.but only now have scientists been able to develop computer systems that can perform human like tasks.

These tasks range from speech recognition, translation into different languages, visual perception & even decision making.

Artificial intelligence-real life examples

Ø Self Driving Cars

Ø Boston Dynamics

Ø Navigation Systems

Ø ASIMO

Ø Chatbots

Ø Human vs Computer Games