'We want to deploy AI at the scale of UPI': Rama Devi Lanka

Artificial Intelligence (AI) can unlock huge opportunities for both enterprises and governments, but AI needs to be deployed at large scale for the same. According to Rama Devi Lanka, director, Emerging Technologies and officer on special duty at ITE&C, Government of Telangana, the government is looking to deploy AI at the same scale as India's Unified Payments Interface (UPI). "If you look at the unified payments interface (UPI), that is the scale at which we are looking to deploy AI," she added. Speaking at the Mint AI Summit on April 29, Lanka said that Telangana has identified agriculture, healthcare, education, transportation, smart cities, and climate change as some of the focus areas for AI implementation. However, she noted that the lack of availability of data can be a problem.