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Stanford alum Manu Chopra’s Karya is building India-friendly AI – 10 points to know
3Nov By adminNo Comments
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Stanford alum Manu Chopra’s Karya is building India-friendly AI – 10 points to know

[ad_1] If artificial intelligence is the magic genie of the tech world, as Elon Musk put it during his interview with UK PM Rishi Sunak yesterday, then data is the magic lamp that houses the genie. Without the lamp, the genie can't come out and grant people wishes and similarly, without high-quality data, AI models will not be able to do their job properly. Even before OpenAI's ChatGPT started the entire AI frenzy, a 27-year-old Stanford alum Manu Chopra knew the importance of data annotation and labeling, and the potential of the industry. That's why he started Karya, a startup that focuses on non-English data annotation with high accuracy which can be used by companies that are building AI models for Indians who don't understand English. Let us check 10 key points about Manu and Karya...
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India signs historic international agreement at AI Safety Summit in the UK
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India signs historic international agreement at AI Safety Summit in the UK

[ad_1] Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar the Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology for India has today signed a world-first agreement at the historic British landmark, Bletchley Park. The agreement establishes a shared understanding of the opportunities and risks posed by frontier Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the need for governments to work together to meet the most significant challenges.A report from the British High Commission outlines that India, along with 27 countries from across the globe including Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, as well as the EU have agreed to the urgency of understanding and, as an international community, "collectively manage potential risks through a new joint global effort to ensure AI is developed and deployed in a safe, re...
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India looks at AI with prism of openness, safety, and accountability: Rajeev Chandrasekhar at AI summit
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India looks at AI with prism of openness, safety, and accountability: Rajeev Chandrasekhar at AI summit

[ad_1] Union Minister of State for Electronics and IT, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, in his address to the world's first global summit on Artificial Intelligence in the UK on Wednesday, said India looks at AI with a prism of openness, safety, trust and accountability. Addressing the 'AI Safety Summit 2023', Chandrasekhar said India has maintained that international collaborations and international conversations was extremely important at a time and a year when "technology is throwing up most exiting opportunities ever in the history of mankind."The minister emphasised that India sees AI as "the next big opportunity." "We are extremely clear in our minds on mitigation on what AI and indeed any emerging technology can and will represent, a prism of openness, safety, trust and accountability," he ...
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Modi on AI: PM calls for global framework for ethical use of Artificial Intelligence
27Aug By adminNo Comments
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Modi on AI: PM calls for global framework for ethical use of Artificial Intelligence

[ad_1] In a speech today, while addressing the B20 Summit India 2023, which was organised by CII, Prime Minister Narendra Modi indicated that a global framework for ethical use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) should be created even as he flagged concerns surrounding bias in this new technology that could severely impact society at large. He underlined the importance of the ethical use of AI to promote the good of everyone rather than a few. This can be achieved only if countries and businessmen work together for the common good. "Today, the world is showing a lot of excitement regarding AI. But amidst the excitement there are also some ethical considerations. Regarding skilling and re-skilling, concern is being raised about algorithm bias and its impact on society. Such issues also have...
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India needs to export talents skilled in AI: Microsoft Vice Chair
27Aug By adminNo Comments
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India needs to export talents skilled in AI: Microsoft Vice Chair

[ad_1] Microsoft President and Vice Chairman Brad Smith on Thursday said India needs to export talents skilled in artificial intelligence.While speaking at a US-India Strategic Partnership Forum event, Smith said the health of democracies is at stake and there is a need to find new ways to sustain economic growth. "The future of India in many ways will involve not just bringing talent to the countries but bringing more talents with a background in AI," Smith said. He said there is a need to develop responsible AI which fundamentally serves the principle that matters to humanity like security, privacy, and inclusion.Smith said the role of AI is to enhance productivity in a smarter way and there is a need to develop it through partnerships between educators and entrepreneurs, among countr...
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People want to be confident AI will remain under human control: Microsoft President Brad Smith
25Aug By adminNo Comments
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People want to be confident AI will remain under human control: Microsoft President Brad Smith

[ad_1] Microsoft has partnered Sam Altman led OpenAI, a company that was famously funded by billionaire Elon Musk, to make rapid strides in the field of artificial intelligence. The company has taken up the cudgels against other tech majors including the likes of Google and Meta Platforms. This puts the company's president, Brad Smith, in the perfect position to speak on the issue that has divided the globe down the middle about its massive potential for good as well as an equal potential to do harm to humanity.Speaking at the B20 Summit India 2023 in New Delhi, Microsoft President Brad Smith on Friday stressed on the need for "real clarity" around goals and principles of AI regulation. Making his company's stance clear, he called for a "regulatory blueprint" that will require action at...
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India presents a massive opportunity to be at the forefront of AI, says Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen
25Aug By adminNo Comments
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India presents a massive opportunity to be at the forefront of AI, says Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen

[ad_1] India has made rapid strides in technology and nothing indicates that more than the local tech titans like TCS, Infosys, Tech Mahondra, Wipro or HCL Tech. And there are hundreds of thousands of other companies, big and small, that have contributed immensely in improving India's digital footprint. The latest high-profile achievement was of course Chandrayaan-3 mission, in which the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully landed a lander and a rover on the moon even as Russia failed to do so with its Luna-25 spacecraft.Keeping all of that in mind was likely Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen, who on Friday, heaped fulsome praise on what India had achieved as a country in the tech field. Narayen said he is a "massive fan" of digital infrastructure that India has created and l...
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AI appreciation day: This is what tech titans have to say about AI
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AI appreciation day: This is what tech titans have to say about AI

[ad_1] The AI revolution of 2023 has touched almost every sector. The wave that began in the tech sector has now spread out to medicine, entertainment, logistics, ecommerce, publishing, and more. It is not just generative AI that is making the buzz but the entire technology of bringing logical processes to a computer program to make it synthesize its own responses to problems has become an exciting opportunity. And while Silicon Valley had the early mover's advantage, more and more Indian business leaders are also waking up to its potential. Many companies have already begun implementing AI at some level. Many new startups focused on developing artificial intelligence have also emerged. On AI appreciation day 2023, we take a look at what industry stalwarts have to say about this new tec...
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5 things about AI you may have missed today: From detection industry to Bollywood villains, AI does it all
5Jul By adminNo Comments
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5 things about AI you may have missed today: From detection industry to Bollywood villains, AI does it all

[ad_1] Today was a big day in the artificial intelligence space. The Indian government has been using AI for various purposes, one of them being a language platform called Bhashini, which is aimed to remove linguistic barriers. PM Narendra Modi pitched the AI platform to members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and said he'd be happy to share it. Within the nation, a recent study by the Union Ministry of Communications, where AI was extensively used, it was found that more than 40 lakh phone numbers in the country were obtained using fake documents. This and more in today's AI roundup. Let us take a closer look.Study finds lakhs of phone numbers were acquired illegallyA report by the Indian Express has shared the findings from a recent study conducted using AI by the Union...
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With Modi in US, here is what India and US are set to sign-space, 6G to AI, know it all here
22Jun By adminNo Comments
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With Modi in US, here is what India and US are set to sign-space, 6G to AI, know it all here

[ad_1] India and the US are all set to ink a permanent partnership that spans both the Earth and beyond into space. It has been revelaed that India will sign the non-binding Artemis Accords that entails civil space exploration and use. And yes, there will be an India-US joint space mission to the International Space Station too. This was agreed to by both the US space agency NASA and India's space agency ISRO. The joint mission to the ISS will happen as early as in 2024, the White House said today.“On space, we will be able to announce that India is signing the Artemis Accords, which advance a common vision for space exploration for the benefit of all humankind,” a senior Biden administration official said before the meeting between PM Narendra Modi and President Joe Biden. What are Art...
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