{"id":131699,"date":"2023-03-11T04:37:58","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T04:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/?p=131699"},"modified":"2023-03-11T04:37:58","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T04:37:58","slug":"in-chatgpts-shadow-india-readies-for-aggressive-ai-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/business\/in-chatgpts-shadow-india-readies-for-aggressive-ai-play\/","title":{"rendered":"In ChatGPT’s shadow, India readies for aggressive AI play"},"content":{"rendered":"
The government has identified nine key focus areas in the AI national programme, including agriculture, education, Indian languages, smart cities, cybersecurity, transportation, and finance.<\/strong><\/p>\n India is making an aggressive play in artificial intelligence (AI) with twin objectives of “making AI in India and making AI work for India”.<\/p>\n In this direction and against the backdrop of the revolutionary transition in AI brought in by ChatGPT, the government is expanding the INDIAai initiative in partnership with Indian tech companies, start-ups, and academic institutions.<\/p>\n The arrival of ChatGPT (generative pre-trained transformer), developed by OpenAI, has changed the AI land space, with companies globally rushing to come out with similar advanced chatbots.<\/p>\n Microsoft recently announced upgrading its search engine Bing and browser Edge with ChatGPT; this move forced Google, the king of the search engine market, to scramble and announce a rival AI Bard.<\/p>\n Companies in China like Baidu are also expected to build homegrown chatbots based on GPT technology.<\/p>\n GPT is a neural machine learning trained using internet data to generate any type of text.<\/p>\n Explaining the broader vision behind the AI push, Union IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said: “India has the best talent for AI in the world.<\/p>\n “The government is setting up three centres of excellence for AI (which were announced in the Budget) and we will make AI in India and make AI work for India.”<\/p>\n Giving details of the new collaborative strategic model, Minister of State for IT and Electronics Rajiv Chandrasekhar said: “INDIAai is being expanded as a partnership with Indian tech companies, start-ups, and academic institutions under a comprehensive AI programme that consists of the National Data Governance Framework Policy, an Indian datasets programme, and setting up of three AI Centres of Excellence (in top educational universities).”<\/p>\n Chandrasekhar pointed out that the ecosystem of start-ups in India is vibrant and covers many AI applications which include GPT. But there are many other training and learning models, too, he noted.<\/p>\n The government has identified nine key focus areas in the AI national programme, including agriculture, education, Indian languages, smart cities, cybersecurity, transportation, and finance.<\/p>\n Vaishnaw said the ministry of electronics and information technology has undertaken a lot of work in the AI space in solutions for varied Indian languages where ChatGPT has already been integrated.<\/p>\n “One good example is Bhasini — a natural language AI platform, which enables automated language translation and is already being integrated with ChatGPT.”<\/p>\n Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in her recent Budget announced that in order to unleash innovation and research by start-ups and academia, a National Data Governance Policy would be brought in.<\/p>\n A draft policy by MeitY envisaged the setting up of an India Data Management Office (IDMO) under Digitial India Corporation for an institutional framework with guidelines and protocols to share non-personal data.<\/p>\n The IDMO will coordinate with central ministries and state governments to standardise the management of this data.<\/p>\n The Centre has also clarified that non-personal data, which will be shared, shall be limited to data available with the government like that of weather or climate, among others.<\/p>\n This data, for instance, when powered by AI tools, can help agriculture in predicting monsoons and other factors.<\/p>\n The government has also put together the open government data platform for a single-point access to resources in an open format published by ministries, government departments, and organisations.<\/p>\n Feature Presentation: Ashish Narsale\/Rediff.com<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n