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You can bring bullet trains from Japan, but not Artificial Intelligence

Two ministries want to ride the AI wave. Do we know how much data are we individually fuelling into it? Algorithms read, use, and most alarmingly, assess our levels of stupidity (and vulnerability). Especially on apps like WhatsApp

30/10/17

Seema Singh

Ministries of Commerce and Electronics and IT are claiming to build India’s roadmap for AI development in ways which look fuzzy now. This, at a time when countries are embarking on well-thought plans

 

 

Recent calls on big data and cyber-physical systems have been damp squibs. Will AI be better given that less than 40 academics in India are doing serious AI research or have the ‘the dark art’ to solve deep learning problems?

 

 

Developing AI is a completely different ball game as compared to developing space, power or train tech. Algorithms need to train on Indian data. And who has data today?

 

 

 

It’s with big tech companies which are collecting and connecting data, even influencing behaviour in ways that we hardly understand

 

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No books, no human intervention, no training data and yet it learns, from first principles. Google-owned DeepMind showed last week that its artificial intelligence (AI) programme Alpha Go Zero was able to learn what knowledge was from itself. That’s spooky. Comparisons of AI to the invention of the steam engine or printing press for impact…

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