Rajat Sharma’s Blog | Will AI change India, how will it change?

Prime Minister Narendra Modi explained India’s AI vision at the India AI Impact Summit held in Delhi. He said, India does not see fear but destiny in AI, our youth are developing new tools, but other countries of the world will have to change their thinking in the matter of AI and give up secrecy. AI has to be seen from a democratic perspective, the coding has to be made public, only then it can be used for the good of humanity. Modi’s words were supported by big leaders of the AI ​​world. French President Emmanuel Macron said, 10 years ago a street vendor in Mumbai could not open a bank account, today the same street vendor is taking payments on his phone in the blink of an eye. Macron said, this is not just a story of technological progress, it is a story of a civilization, India has done what no other country could do in the world, India has created digital identity of 1.4 billion people, India has created a payment system in which 20 billion transactions are processed every month.

Google-Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said that his father Raghunath Pichai has given him a big challenge of AI. Said, when he took his parents for a ride in Google’s self-driving car Waymo, his father said, this is all good, you will know if you drive such a car on the crowded roads of India. Sundar Pichai said that he is working to fulfill this dream of his father. Pichai said, there was a time when he himself used to travel by Coromandel Express from Chennai to IIT Kharagpur via Visakhapatnam. Today, in the same Visakhapatnam, Google is setting up a full stack AI hub with an investment of 15 billion dollars. Once ready, this hub will have gigawatt level computing capacity, it will be connected to an undersea cable, through which people across India will get employment and business opportunities.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that India will become the biggest market for AI in the coming days. Altman said that it is true that the arrival of AI will make a difference to jobs, but the solution to this challenge will also come only through AI. At the AI ​​Summit, Modi was addressing Presidents of 7 countries, Prime Ministers of 9 countries, Ministers of more than 50 countries and heads of big IT companies of the world. Reliance Group Chairman Mukesh Ambani told how Jio Intelligence has tied-up with Facebook’s parent company Meta to develop an indigenous model of AI. Ambani said, just as Jio has made cheap data and Wi-Fi available across the country, similarly now Jio will also deliver AI to every home at a very low price. For this, Reliance Group will invest Rs 10 lakh crore in the next 7 years. Reliance Chairman said, I want to make a bold prediction, in the 21st century, India will emerge as one of the world’s major powers in the sector of AI. In the coming time, no country in the world will be able to compete with India in terms of demography, democracy, development, digital infrastructure, data generation and use of AI. Jio connected India to the internet era. Now we will connect India to the era of Intelligence.

Prime Minister Modi said many big things in few words. India wants to become the world leader in AI, our country has the brains, youth power and government support. Modi is also careful about the dangers of AI, AI can be dangerous for children, youth can lose jobs due to AI, AI can mislead people through DeepFake. All such dangers were mentioned today. AI is in front of us. It cannot be stopped. Now it is up to us how to use it, for the good of humans or to destroy the society. The speed at which AI is progressing, it will have to be controlled at the same speed. There is neither time nor opportunity to pause, stop and think. (Rajat Sharma)

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