AI: Where The Problem Also Happens To Be The Solution

The sharp spike in interest and research in artificial intelligence (AI) is predominantly positive, but it is causing some scary fallouts, such as financial scams and plagiarism. Interestingly, AI also offers the means to prevent such frauds

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Addressing a joint session of the US Congress in June this year, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, “In the past few years, there have been many advances in AI— Artificial Intelligence. At the same time, there have been even more momentous developments in another Al—America and India.” The statement went down so well with the audience that the American President Joe Biden gifted Modi a T-shirt with the text, The Future is AI— America and India. During his visit to the US, the Prime Minister also met the heads of leading tech companies at the Hi-Tech Handshake mega event. This included Google’s Sundar Pichai, Apple’s Tim Cook, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, and Microsoft’s Satya Nadella. They discussed topics ranging from semiconductor manufacturing and space exploration to AI, and some of these tech giants committed to various degrees of investment in India.

Satya Nadella shared some valuable insights about the power of AI to transform the lives of people in India. In May, Microsoft launched Jugalbandi, a generative AI-driven mobile chatbot for government assistance, in India. Users can speak or type questions in their local language. Jugalbandi will retrieve information on relevant programmes, usually available in English or Hindi, and present it to the users in their local language. Jugalbandi uses language models from AI4Bharat, a government-backed initiative, and reasoning models from Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service. AI4Bharat is an open source language AI centre based at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-M). “We saw Jugalbandi as a kind of