Intel India sets up centre for artificial intelligence

Intel India said it had partnered IIIT Hyderabad, Public Health Foundation of India and the Telangana government to unveil a research centre to focus on leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to solve India's population-scale challenges in sectors such as healthcare and smart mobility. The applied AI research centre, INAI, here will act as a catalyst to accelerate India's leadership in AI while creating national assets such as curated data sets and computing infrastructure with the aim to attract global talent for high-impact research towards social sector development, Intel India said. In his address, Union IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said India was bound to be a robust player in AI application as data was the'oxygen' for AI and India's huge population, along with a robust digital ecosystem, was going to generate huge amounts of data. He, however, added that the AI ecosystem must be kept free from biases. "AI has the great potential [for]of face recognition. But the facial recognition process should not show any bias of colour or ethnicity," he reasoned.