On the 19th of December, the Google announced that it will provide the sum of 1 million dollars for the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT-M), for the establishment of an artificial intelligence research center, seeking to study the ethical and legal development of technology.
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Everything indicates that the company will also provide a similar amount to the non-profit institute lucrative Wadhwani AI, seeking to foster the deployment of artificial intelligence in the agriculture.
The values are “to develop efforts to deploy artificial intelligence models that help in monitoring crop diseases, predicting yield results and bringing efficiency to you call centers Kisan,” Google Research India Director Manish Gupta told the Indian Express.
Gupta also reported that Google will apply artificial intelligence models to satellite images, seeking to identify farm boundaries, their locations and other details.
Google has also started a project, called Vani, which seeks to understand the different languages, dialects and accents used in India.
Gupta also spoke about this: “With our partner, the Institute of Sciences of India, we are collecting speech data from each of the districts in India. By collecting this data regionally, rather than language-based, we hope to basically cover the entire linguistic diversity of India.”
Use of AI in various areas
Director of the Robert Bosch Center for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (RBC-DSAI) at IIT-Madras B Ravindran told the Times of India that artificial intelligence is being widely used by government and other sectors, which made a multisectoral perspective needed.
“We will have technologists, sociologists, policy and law experts talking, building resources and bringing research into the responsible use of artificial intelligence,” he said.
In addition, Google is also working on digitizing handwritten prescriptions. In that regard, Gupta said there are many factors to consider when a pharmacist reads a prescription.
“What we've been doing is, rather than using any rules, look at how artificial intelligence can capture this type of information to increase the accuracy of handwriting recognition or OCR templates,” explained the director.
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