Can India's AI Talent Gap Be Stemmed With Government Initiatives?

How scarce is AI talent in India? As Artificial Intelligence starts dominating the market, India does stare at a significant talent shortage just like the global market where AI has taken over low-skilled IT jobs. A LinkedIn report on the Digital Workforce Future states that India is like a testing ground for some of the most exciting applications of AI such as Microsoft's application that helps farmers in predicting crop yields in the agriculture sector, to Google's Deep Learning application that detects diabetes-related eye diseases in health care.