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Making computers intelligent

Computers need to be trained to recognise images

Telangana govt to declare 2020 as the 'year of artificial intelligence'

Move aimed at promoting the use of AI in various sectors, including agriculture, urban transportation and healthcare

Artificial intelligence can improve health sector, says Arvind Panagariya

Panagariya said India's health sector is still very much evolving and very informal

Attempts being made to demonise technology, says PM Narendra Modi

He said the debate should not be on the dangers of artificial intelligence or when will robots outsmart humans

Maharashtra police ties up with AI firm to prevent spread of fake news

It has been monitoring various social media platforms since 20 days to monitor cases of violation under the Model Code of Conduct (MCC)

AI firm CleverTap raises $35 mn in funding round led by Tiger Global

Funds will be used to fuel team growth across engineering, sales, and marketing across the US, Latin America, Europe, and Asia

Social commerce player DealShare raises $11 mn from Matrix Partners, others

The start-up, focused on middle- and lower-income clientele in grocery and home categories segments, in Tier-II and -III cities, currently has over 300,000 customers and services 15,000 orders per day

Only 10% of Indian CEOs confident about reliability of AI applications: PwC

Even as AI has the potential to solve complex problems effectively at scale, badly designed applications can cause more harm than good, PwC India said in its report

Just 10% of top Indian CEOs confident about reliability of AI, says PwC

Artificial Intelligence is fast becoming a political and economic tool, as it is a matter of technology.

Railways launches pilot project to promote production with AI, big data

A pilot project for ushering in Industry 4.0 in the country has been launched at the Modern Coach Factory in Uttar Pradesh's Raebareli district, the railways said on Saturday. Industry 4.0, commonly referred to as the fourth industrial revolution, is a name given to the current trend of automation, inter-connectivity and data exchange in manufacturing technologies to increase productivity. Industry 4.0 is a complex cyber-physical system which synergies production with digital technologies, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Analytics, Machine Learning and Cloud Computing. The Ministry of Railways and the Department of Science and Technology have joined hands in partnership with IIT Kanpur for taking up a unique project on 'Industry 4.0'. They launched the pilot project on Friday for implementation at the Modern Coach Factory, an official statement said. Speaking on the occasion, Secretary Department of Science & Technology Ashutosh Sharma said that his department has recently ...

India should integrate AI with education to become world leader: Sikka

Last month, at the request of PM Modi, Sikka gave a presentation before the NITI Aayog how to expand the reach of AI to the Indian society in a very big way

Apollo Hospitals launches artificial intelligence-based programme

The programme, designed for three years now, would offer health check ups, directions and health mentoring

Finance ministry clears NITI Aayog's artificial intelligence proposal

NITI Aayog had been asking for Rs 7,500 crore for three years to set up an AI framework

Tech skills in highest demand are automation, AI, analytics: Infosys study

Interestingly, soft skills were rated to be just as important as technical ones

Can AI chase away the media blues?

A new app is happy to bring some sanity back into the news ecosystem

The Indian AI-driven artist who'll show her works at the Florence Biennale

An Indian AI poet-artist will display her work at the Florence Biennale. Nikita Puri on how projects such as this are pushing the boundaries of what it means to be human

With AI and automation growing, 120 million workers will need retraining

Some skills take longer to develop because they are either more behavioral in nature like teamwork and communication or highly technical, such as data science capabilities

Ask AI: Lenders bring in machines to rate credit risk of customers

The race to offer loans to customers who do not have any collateral to offer has prompted innovators to look at new sources of data on them

JSW Steel using AI, machine learning to deliver quality and reduce costs

Using Internet of Things, JSW Energy can accurately predict how much power it has to generate and supply to the plant in every 15 minute cycle

Alexa to Siri, how virtual assistants are becoming our digital companions

Intelligent chatbots are computer programmed software that imitate human conversation - spoken or written - powered by technologies such as AI, natural language processing (NLP) and deep learning