The fourth edition of NITI Lecture Series was held at Vigyan Bhavan in New Delhi on how artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to democratise innovation by commoditising software. Union ministers, policy makers, experts from different walks of life along with Niti Aayog vice chairman & CEO, members and other senior officials were present on the occasion. The keynote address was delivered by Jensen Huang, President and Co-Founder of NVIDIA Corporation. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had also attended the session.
With the vision of disseminating cutting-edge and innovative ideas in India’s development policy, this year's theme was 'Artificial Intelligence for All: Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Inclusive Growth'.
Jensen, who was speaking at the NITI Lecture Series explained the power of AI in automating the process of automation itself, of how it can write code for complex use-cases by learning from examples and emphasised how AI can democratise innovation by commoditising software.
Artificial Intelligence can help democratise innovation and NITI Aayog has the mandate to enable the use of AI in key, high gain sectors of social development – healthcare, agriculture, smart mobility, education and infrastructure. To complement the vision, the panel discussion designed emphasised around how AI is heavily context dependent.
The government think tank said the 2018 theme for the lecture series 'AI for All: Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Inclusive Growth' is part of the National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence aimed at evolving a robust ecosystem in India for AI research and adoption.
The Aayog said it 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 AI in key, high gain sectors of social development -- healthcare, agriculture, smart mobility, education and infrastructure.
The Aayog said it has launched multiple projects in 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).
The NLP is a system of protocols which allow machines or computers to understand and interact with human speech and symbols.
The Niti Aayog said it has also identified barriers that need to be addressed to achieve success in use of artificial intelligence with the aim to use the technology across all sectors.
The Union Budget 2018 had mandated the Niti Aayog to come up with a national programme on employing artificial intelligence towards national development, following which the Aayog has published a National Strategy for artificial intelligence (AI).
With the use of computers to simulate human intelligence, AI amplifies cognitive abilities of humans, thereby solving problems where the complexity is too great, or the information is incomplete, or the details are too subtle and require expert training.
It has also proposed setting up of a Centre of Research Excellence (CORE) to focus on developing better understanding of existing core research, the report said.
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