Expert group for suggestions on artificial intelligence policy

Science Affairs Electronics and Computers

The Union ministry of electronics and information technology has set up an internal committee to advise the government on a policy on artificial intelligence (AI).
This expert committee will advise the IT ministry on the most apt technologies for India. The government’s main focus is to reduce cyber-attacks with AI.
The government has recently drawn up a seven-point strategy that would form the framework for India’s strategic plan to use AI.
The strategy includes developing methods for human machine interactions; ensuring safety and security of AI systems; creating a competent workforce in line with AI and R&D needs, understanding and addressing the ethical, legal and societal implications of AI, measuring and evaluating AI technologies through standards and benchmarks, among others.

About Artificial Intelligence:

Back in 1956, scholars gathered at Dartmouth College to begin considering how to build computers that could improve themselves and take on problems that only humans could handle. That’s still a workable definition of artificial intelligence.
In 2012, a team led by Geoffrey Hinton at the University of Toronto proved that a system using a brain-like neural network could “learn” to recognize images. That same year, a team at Google led by Andrew Ng taught a computer system to recognize cats in YouTube videos without ever being taught what a cat was.
Since then, computers have made enormous strides in vision, speech and complex game analysis.

Analysis:

AI is also widely seen as a major challenge in generation of employment as many companies are likely to depend more on it to cut down on human resources.
The artificial intelligence market is estimated to touch $153 billion in 2020 and expected to grow at a compounded annual growth rate of 45.4% from 2016 to 2022.
AI can benefit various government agencies in their functioning. But at the same time we have to ensure that an indigenous workforce to develop AI is created.
Globally too, there is a growing interest in AI. In 2016, the White House initiated work on Preparing for the future of artificial intelligence; in the UK, the House of Commons committee on S&T looked at robotics and artificial intelligence while in 2017, the State Council of China started work on the next generation artificial intelligence development plan.

Submit Error