PM to attend 4th edition of NITI lecture series on Monday
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend the fourth edition of the NITI Lecture Series on Monday. The series will focus on 'leveraging artificial intelligence for inclusive growth', said an official statement. The key address in the series will be delivered by president and co-Founder of US-based technology firm NVIDIA Corporation, Jensen Huang, said the Niti Aayog on Sunday.
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.
Union ministers, policy makers, experts from different walks of life along with Niti Aayog vice chairman, CEO, members and other senior officials, will be among others present at the occasion.
Under the Union Budget 2018, the Niti Aayog was mandated to come up with a national programme on employing artificial intelligence towards national development and since the Aayog has published a National Strategy for artificial intelligence (AI).
The Aayog said its has signed statements of intent (SoI) with industry leaders such as Google, Microsoft and IBM to leapfrog India into 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.
It further 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).
Along with proposing to set up a Centre of Research Excellence (CORE) to focus on developing better understanding of existing core research, the Niti Aayog said it has also identified barriers that need to be addressed to achieve success in use of artificial intelligence.
