IIT Delhi and IBM join hands to advance Artificial Intelligence in India

IIT Delhi and IBM on November 29 joined hands to partake in a multi-year research collaboration on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in India. IBM researchers will collaborate with students and professors from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT-D to inculcate in AI systems some key traits like reasoning, comprehension and inferencing. These may benefit sectors such as healthcare and medicine, finance, and customer support which deal with a complex set of questions and require reasoning, the tech giant said in a statement. "While working with AI systems, organizations require explicit reasoning and comprehension to reach a particular conclusion. We believe advancement in AI can tackle such problems," said Michael Karasick, Vice President, Global Labs, IBM Research. As part of the partnership, the varsity will join IBM's "AI Horizons Network" -- an international consortium of leading universities working with the software major to develop technologies needed to help fulfill the promise of AI.