‘AI a tribute to human intellectual power’: Prime Minister Narendra Modi

PM Narendra Modi inaugurated RAISE 2020, where he spoke highly of the transformational capability of AI and India’s plans to become a global AI hub

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‘We must explore the inclusive character of AI”: Ravi Shankar Prasad Union Minister for Law and Justice, Electronics and Information Technology and Communications

The digital transformation, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi is changing India without any hiccups, which is a unique case study for the world, according to Ravi Shankar Prasad. AI should be used in a more focused manner for agriculture, healthcare and education, as it will enable us to explore more opportunities and address more challenges.

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‘AI indispensable for India’s tryst with digital destiny’: Mukesh Ambani, Chairman & Managing Director, Reliance Industries

Mukesh Ambani, one of India’s most prolific businessmen, has established his business acumen in several industries from petrochemicals, power to retail and digital. At RAISE 2020, Ambani stressed on the need to cultivate intelligent data as it is the sole digital capital to have a competitive advantage in the new world.

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‘AI the biggest technology of our times’: Arvind Krishna, CEO, IBM

The newly appointed CEO of IBM Arvind Krishna believes AI is the biggest technology of our times, with data being at the core of a new revolution. AI presents a $15 trillion opportunity, set to improve the lives and livelihoods of millions of Indians.

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‘India transforming from an information to insights-driven economy, enabled by AI’: N Chandrasekaran, Chairman, Tata Sons

By using AI, one can solve the access challenge in areas like healthcare and education, as well as make meaningful products and create jobs, said Chandrasekaran. Moreover, this wave of transformation is not exclusively for the benefit of software engineers and data scientists, but for farmers, teachers, shopkeepers and other blue collar employees

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‘Technology a dependable ally for consolidation of resources for civil redevelopment work’: Aditi Garg IAS, CEO, Indore Smart City Development Ltd.

Smart city projects in India are only now exploring the use of analytics and AI, and have a long way to go. But Aditi Garg, who leads Indore’s smart city efforts, is bullish on technologies like AI playing a vital role in mobilising resources, and helping civic authorities plan largescale redevelopment plans.

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‘Develop Indian-language Alexas to bridge linguistic barriers”: Dr. Raj Reddy, Prof. Carnegie Mellon University

Being one of the world's most authoritative expert in speech recognition systems, Reddy pointed out how NLP and speech translations are currently transforming millions of lives. Reddy also pointed out that AI technologies can finally bridge the language divide in the country. The speech to speech translation technology can be used to overcome India's language divide, and India would need 100,000 hours of speech and 100 million words of text for each language.

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‘AI should be seen as a socio-economic problem solver, than an economic booster’: Prof V Kamakoti, Chair, National AI Taskforce

Prof Kamakoti believes in the immense problem solving abilities of AI and in aiding with making better decisions. If a proper decision is made, quality of life will improve, and that will help address socio-economic challenges. So in the Indian context, AI is a problem solver than a wealth generator. 

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‘Want to build tech solutions that can have a sizeable impact on India’s agriculture ecosystem’: Ranveer Chandra, Chief Scientist, Microsoft Azure Global; Principal Researcher, Azure Farmbeats

Chandra, who is a key player for Microsoft’s data analytics offerings, has spearheaded many innovations in farming. With the rise in data gathering in Indian agriculture, Microsoft is keen on becoming a key technology solution provider

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‘Future of AI is in Quantum Computing’: Nikhil Malhotra, Global Head of Tech Innovation, TechMahindra

Quantum computing is no longer science fiction, according to Malhotra. While machine learning algorithms are used to compute immense quantities of data, quantum machine learning, a product of integration between AI and quantum computing, increases such capabilities intelligently, by creating opportunities to conduct analysis on quantum states and systems.

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‘Code is the ubiquitous language of machines’: Gargi Dasgupta, Director of IBM Research & CTO, IBM India and South Asia

Dasgupta talks about parallels between human and machine languages. While human languages are English, German, Spanish etc; for machines its Java, Python, COBOL. Vocabulary includes nouns, pronouns and variables, while for machines, its functions and classes. Both have their own syntax and language construction models as well. The tech used to master human languages will be used to master code as well. 

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‘India needs a strong computing infrastructure to fully realise the potential of AI’: Vishal Dhupar, MD, Nvidia South Asia

A leader in graphics cards and processors, Nvidia is now at the forefront of innovation in AI by championing the datacentre on the edge. The company has a focused interest in the Indian market, and has been working closely with the National Supercomputing Mission, MeitY and C-DAC for various ventures, to improve India’s capabilities as an AI hub

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‘India has an ecosystem of talent for deployment and implementation in AI’: Nataraju Vusirikala, Head of Bosch Centre for AI India

As the lead of Bosch Centre for AI India, Vusirikala has led several high impact projects in healthcare, automation and agritech. He believes India should now focus on identifying relevant problems for AI to solve, and fortify talent to do so

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‘When it comes to AI, you can’t sit back and give it a free pass, because human beings are biased.”: Srikanth Velamakanni, Cofounder, Group Chief Executive and Executive Vice Chairman, Fractal Analytics

Leading one of the biggest analytics companies today, Velamakanni and his team of data scientists are on a mission to stay ahead of the curve, and mitigate biases in AI.

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‘India Inc’s Supernova 2x moment is here”: Keshav Murugesh, Group CEO, WNS

Being the first company to have a 100% WFH model in the shortest timeframe, 85% of WNS workforce is WFH now. With AI playing a core role in redefining the original business model, WNS is an example of setting the precedent for the future of work. 

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