Experts highlight role of AI in rural India at Idea conclave
Rajiv Mani | TNN | Mar 7, 2019, 19:27 IST
ALLAHABAD: The industry will need lakhs of data managers to create and maintain clean data repositories related with rural India, which are absent right now, opines Punam Bedi of Delhi University.
She was highlighting the role played by data in the evolution of artificial intelligence through machine learning and deep learning at an event, named ‘idea conclave’, organised at GB Pant Social Science Institute, on Thursday.
Speaking at the event, Prof Suneet Singh said, “It is time we introduced artificial intelligence in the rural development curriculum”. Body corporates have a tendency to look at strong market signals and ignore weak signals of change in technology and those who do not adapt to changing technologies, perish eventually, he added.
“There is a long list of such companies who were market leaders on the eve of previous technological revolution but vanished afterwards,” said Prof Saswat Biswas of Ahmedabad, while presenting the case studies of several companies in his lecture.
Chief guest on the occasion, Uday Shankar Aswasthi, CEO of IFFCO, pointed out in his keynote address that precision farming is the technology of the future that may change the way we look at rural economy. “We have developed nano-fertilisers whose two miligrams can replace 100 kg of urea,” he said. However, future of rural development is deeply embedded in gender equity, added Awasthi.
In the daylong deliberations, the experts were of the opinion that managing clean data repository is both a challenge and an opportunity for development professionals in India. With Niti Ayog giving its nod to use of artificial intelligence in the fields of agriculture, healthcare and education, rural development in India is set to witness rapid and dramatic changes in the next ten years.
The experts felt that it will open up new venues for employment for both technologists and social scientists.
The experts who participated in the first day of the conclave included computer science experts Punam Bedi, Sudipta Roy, Vasundhara Bhatnagar, industry representatives GS Darbari and academicians Ashish Khare and Shahswat Biswas.
She was highlighting the role played by data in the evolution of artificial intelligence through machine learning and deep learning at an event, named ‘idea conclave’, organised at GB Pant Social Science Institute, on Thursday.
Speaking at the event, Prof Suneet Singh said, “It is time we introduced artificial intelligence in the rural development curriculum”. Body corporates have a tendency to look at strong market signals and ignore weak signals of change in technology and those who do not adapt to changing technologies, perish eventually, he added.
“There is a long list of such companies who were market leaders on the eve of previous technological revolution but vanished afterwards,” said Prof Saswat Biswas of Ahmedabad, while presenting the case studies of several companies in his lecture.
Chief guest on the occasion, Uday Shankar Aswasthi, CEO of IFFCO, pointed out in his keynote address that precision farming is the technology of the future that may change the way we look at rural economy. “We have developed nano-fertilisers whose two miligrams can replace 100 kg of urea,” he said. However, future of rural development is deeply embedded in gender equity, added Awasthi.
In the daylong deliberations, the experts were of the opinion that managing clean data repository is both a challenge and an opportunity for development professionals in India. With Niti Ayog giving its nod to use of artificial intelligence in the fields of agriculture, healthcare and education, rural development in India is set to witness rapid and dramatic changes in the next ten years.
The experts felt that it will open up new venues for employment for both technologists and social scientists.
The experts who participated in the first day of the conclave included computer science experts Punam Bedi, Sudipta Roy, Vasundhara Bhatnagar, industry representatives GS Darbari and academicians Ashish Khare and Shahswat Biswas.
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