State of Artificial Intelligence in India

In June 2018, India's national think-tank, the NITI Aayog, released a discussion paper on the transformative potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in India. This paper said the country could add US$1 trillion to its economy through integrating AI. Since then, some of the biggest moves made by the government to act on this prediction is the formation of a task force on Artificial Intelligence for India's Economic Transformation by the Commerce and Industry Department of the Government of India in 2017, and the Union Cabinet in December 2018. These bodies approved an INR3,660 crore national mission on cyber-physical system technologies that involves extensive use of AI, machine learning, deep learning, big data analytics, quantum computing, quantum communication, quantum encryption, data science and predictive analytics. But, what has been the progress in the nation since these ambitious missions were undertaken by the government?