Artificial Intelligence

Women in Saudi Arabia need a male guardian to be granted citizenship, but the country is also the first in the world to grant citizenship to a female robot, named Sophia. Perhaps Elon Musk's fears of robots overtaking humans are not unfounded. But as artificial intelligence is keenly debated at the highest levels of say, Satya Nadella of Microsoft and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, what does it mean for India? The country, which embraced smartphones like no other, has shown remarkable openness to artificial intelligence as well. Look at Sriram Rajamani, managing director of Microsoft Research Labs India, who never really believed machines could one day possess intelligence this superior.