CORE to focus on AI research

A National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence lays down the vision of India for evolving a robust ecosystem for AI research and adoption.

The Strategy is termed #AIForAll as it is focused on leveraging AI for inclusive growth.

Recognising the importance of research and its commercial adoption in success of AI, NITI Aayog has also proposed setting up of Centre of Research Excellence (CORE) to focus on developing better understanding of existing core research.

Besides this, the strategy paper also recommends setting up of International Centres of Transformational AI with a mandate to develop and deploy application-based research in collaboration with private players.

Leading the policy, NITI Aayog has signed Statements of Intent (SoI) with industry leaders such as Google, Microsoft and IBM to leapfrog India into the global arena of future technologies and enable use of artificial intelligence in key, high gain sectors of social development – healthcare, agriculture, smart mobility, education and infrastructure.

In order to demonstrate impact of AI, multiple pilot projects have been launched in the areas of precision agriculture, creating AI led healthcare solutions, and bridging India’s diversity of languages by creating a digital “Ek Bharat, Shrestha Bharat” platform using Natural Language Processing (NLP). NLP is a system of protocols which allow machines or computers to understand and interact with human speech and symbols.

The rise of Artificial Intelligence will help improve productivity and lead to equitable development.

Aiming to put AI to use for all and across sectors, NITI has identified barriers that needs to be addressed to achieve success in the use of AI.

These include lack of expertise, absence of enabling data ecosystem, high resource cost and low awareness, privacy and security issues and absence of collaborative approach to adoption and application of AI.

Taking forward NITI Aayog has held the fourth edition of NITI Lecture Series at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi on 22 Oct 2018.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attended the 4th edition of NITI Lecture series in which the key note address will be delivered by Jensen Huang, President and Co-Founder, NVIDIA Corporation, which designs graphics processing units in Delaware.

Themed “AI for ALL: Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Inclusive Growth”, it was attended by Ministers, policy makers, experts from different walks of life along as well as corporate leaders. fiinews.com