Artificial Intelligence: Telangana to declare 2020 as year of AI

The Telangana government will declare 2020 as the year of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to promote its use in various sectors such as agriculture, urban transportation and healthcare. This was announced by Information Technology Minister K.T. Rama Rao during a meeting with NASSCOM President Debjani Ghosh here on Friday. The minister announced that the government would organise a series of events throughout the year centred around the AI theme. KTR, as the minister is popularly known, highlighted the various initiatives taken by the state government in the areas of emerging technologies. "Telangana government is continuing to attract investors from marquee companies which are setting up their R&D and technology development centres in emerging technologies such as IoT, AI, machine learning, cyber security and blockchain," KTR said.