Theme: “AI for ALL: Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Inclusive Growth”

Prime Minister to attend the Address by Jensen Huang, President and Co-Founder, NVIDIA Corporation

NITI Aayog is organizing the fourth edition of the NITI Lecture Series at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi, on 22.10.2018. Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi will attend the 4th edition of the NITI Lecture series, in which the keynote address will be delivered by Jensen Huang, President and Co-Founder of NVIDIA Corporation. This year’s theme is “AI for ALL: Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Inclusive Growth”. Union ministers, policymakers, experts from different walks of life, along with the NITI Aayog Vice Chairman, members, CEO, and senior officials, will be a part of this gathering on this occasion.

AI & NITI

 Artificial intelligence is the use of computers to simulate human intelligence. AI amplifies our cognitive abilities — letting us solve problems where the complexity is too great, the information is incomplete, or the details are too subtle and require expert training.

Union Budget 2018 mandated NITI Aayog to develop a national programme on employing artificial intelligence for national development. NITI has since published a National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence.

National Strategy lays down India’s vision for evolving a robust AI research and adoption ecosystem. The Strategy is termed #AIForAll as it is focused on leveraging AI for inclusive growth in line with the Government policy of Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas.

NITI Aayog has signed Statements of Intent (SoI) with industry leaders such as Google, Microsoft, and IBM to leapfrog India into the global arena of future technologies and enable the use of artificial intelligence in key, high-gain sectors of social development – healthcare, agriculture, smart mobility, education, and infrastructure.

To demonstrate the impact of AI, multiple pilot projects have been launched in 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). NLP is a protocol system that allows machines or computers to understand and interact with human speech and symbols.

In his address at the launch of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Centre for Fourth Industrial Revolution, the Prime Minister underlined new opportunities arise with each wave of new technology. The rise of Artificial Intelligence will help improve productivity and lead to equitable development.

Aiming to put AI to use for all and across sectors, NITI has identified barriers that need to be addressed to succeed in using AI. These include lack of expertise, absence of enabling data ecosystem, high resource cost and low awareness, privacy and security issues, and absence of collaborative approach to adoption and application of AI.

Recognizing the importance of research and its commercial adoption in the success of AI, NITI has also proposed setting up a Centre of Research Excellence (CORE) to focus on developing a better understanding of existing core research. Besides this, the strategy paper also recommends setting up International Centres of Transformational AI with a mandate to develop and deploy application-based research in collaboration with private players.

About NITI Lecture Series;

The ‘NITI Lectures: Transforming India’ was inaugurated by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi on August 26, 2016, and has since been held annually, featuring eminent speakers worldwide. The first keynote address – ‘India and the Global Economy’ – was delivered by the Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore, Shri Tharman Shanmugaratnam. Bill Gates, Co-Founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, delivered the Second lecture in the high-powered lecture series on ‘Technology and Transformation’ on November 16, 2016. On May 25, 2017, Dr Michael Porter, the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor at Harvard Business School, delivered the Third Transforming India Lecture, ‘Competitiveness of Nations and States: New Insights’.

With the vision of disseminating cutting-edge, innovative ideas in development policy to India, the NITI Lectures are attended by the Government’s top decision-makers, including members of the Cabinet and senior officials across ministries and departments. Through the lectures, NITI Aayog has brought policymakers, academics, experts, and administrators of global repute to India. The series aims to enable learning at the Centre and in states from prosperous development practices worldwide.

Source: Press Release

Release ID: 1550115
PIB Delhi
NITI Aayog
Date: October 21, 2018