India Will See Breakthrough Application of AI - ELE Times

India will see the breakthrough application of artificial intelligence (AI) in various areas including the National Language Translation Mission, said Infosys Chairman Nandan Nilekani. Nilekani said this during a fireside chat with Ajay Sawhney, secretary in the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), and Debjani Ghosh, president of IT industry body Nasscom. The interaction was organized by INDIAai, a national AI portal set up by MeitY, National E-Governance Division, and Nasscom. "The work that MeitY is doing on the national language translation mission is a disruptive opportunity," Nilekani said. "India is unique in the fact that it has such a large number of languages, all co-mingling, and most Indians speak two to three languages and so on. Creating the world's best language capability, whether its speech, text to speech, whether its language to language, I think India is well placed to show the world how to do it," he added.