The only way to grow output today is to partner with machines
In his latest Mann ki Baat, PM Narendra Modi touted Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a technology that can be “harnessed to better the lives of the underprivileged, the marginalised and the needy.”
In this year’s budget, the government doubled the allocation for the Digital India initiative in part to support the cyber physical systems mission. Ashutosh Sharma, secretary, department of science and technology, spoke to Malavika Vyawahare to explain what an AI revolution means for India. Excerpts: to data and also communication. The next generation of communications 5G is radically different from 4G because it is catering to not just people-to- people communication but also people-tomachine and machine-to-machine communication.
Once you have made a decision, it has to have an action arm. If there is a road cleaning robot. If it gets data that some stretch is dirty, it can go there and clean without human intervention. I call it a cyber physical system. jobs that are repetitive will disappear. The only way to grow output today is by partnering with machines that not only do the job of manufacturing but also decide what is to be manufactured, where the demand is. are creating a new opportunity, you are now able to serve a population that was not served. That is the opportunity for countries like India.
Delivery of education is a good example. Education is not effective and people are not there. We can have AI teachers. machines that use AI, but also deploy it. Companies that do not localise their products don’t do as well. We need advances in fundamental AI but we also need that in tailored applications.