Prime Minister Narendra Modi
The fourth edition of the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Lecture Series will be attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday.
According to an official statement, it will focus on 'leveraging artificial intelligence for inclusive growth'.
The government think tank said that the key note address will be delivered by Jensen Huang, president and co-Founder of US-based technology firm NVIDIA Corporation.
Theme for 2018 is "AI for All: Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Inclusive Growth". It is part of the National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence aimed at evolving a robust ecosystem in India for AI research and adoption.
The Union Budget 2018 had mandated the Niti Aayog 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.
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. It has also proposed setting up of a Centre of Research Excellence (CORE) to focus on developing better understanding of existing core research, it said.
In August 2016, the 'NITI Lectures: Transforming India' was inaugurated by Modi. In November 2016, Bill Gates, Co-Founder, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, delivered the second lecture. In May 2017, the third lecture of the series was delivered by Michael Porter, the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor at Harvard Business School.
(With PTI inputs)
