ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN INDIA
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies are going to be the most powerful agents of transformation in human history. AI will reshape the global economy, technological landscape and every aspect of our daily lives. India as the fourth-largest economy in the world and a young nation, it is imperative to be prepared to answer the challenges of AI and to leverage it to solve social problems, in building towards the economic prosperity. Before addressing the challenges and opportunities for India, it is critical to understand what has changed in the field of AI in recent times. The answer lies in what experts of the industry refer to as Moore’s law and its broader impact on the computing space. This maxim states that the number of transistors in computer chips doubles every two years, meaning that computer power increases and the relative cost of computer hardware decreases at an exponential pace; the fruit of this relation—faster and cheaper computing power coupled with the dimin