The AI India Impact

INDIA'S FOCUS HAS BEEN AT THE DEPLOYMENT LEVEL, HIGH INVESTMENT IN INFRA BODES WELL FOR AI GROWTH

- VINOD DHALL

ATTENDING THE GLOBAL AI Impact Summit was a rare and rarified experience—listening to the thoughts of world leaders in this breakthrough technology that promises earthshaking possibilities.

It is probably correct to say that artificial intelligence (AI) could be the harbinger of the next Industrial Revolution—41R—after the previous revolutions brought about by the steam engine, electricity and mass production, and internet/digital technology. The visions painted by technology leaders such as Google’s Sundar Pichai and Demis Hassabis, Open Al’s Sam Altman, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, Meta’s Alexandr Wang, and our own experts/inventors such as Sarvam Al’s founders, plus the presentations at the tech companies’ stalls, gave a dazzling display of the potential of AI for mankind.

The impact of AI in the fields of science, health, education, agriculture, climate change, finance, commerce, and more are unfolding with dazzling or, as some feel, alarming speed.

In medicine, AI promises personalised treatment instead of a one-size-fits-all, helping radiologists to detect critical diseases, or automatically producing medical notes after listening to doctor-patient conversations. In fact, India’s AIIMS is cooperating with Google to raise the level of quality in health services and patient care.

In agriculture, AI has been harnessed for early plant disease detection and cure recommendations, in weather prediction and in advice on ideal planting times and water use, fertiliser and pesticide usage, predicting diseases in cattle, and so on. AI deployment has accordingly led to a substantial increase in yields in various use cases.