If you want to know where AI is headed, this year's Google I/O has you covered. The company's annual showcase of next-gen products, which kicked off yesterday, has all of the pomp and pizzazz, the sizzle reels and celebrity walk-ons, that you'd expect from a multimillion dollar marketing event. But it also shows us just how fast this still-experimental technology is being subsumed into a line-up designed to sell phones and subscription tiers. Never before have I seen this thing we call artificial intelligence appear so normal. Last December, Meta announced plans to build a massive 10 billion data center for training its artificial intelligence models in rural northeast Louisiana.

More than three budgets presented in the parliament had mentioned about the Artificial Intelligence (AI) provisions. But the much-talked-about AI project has not moved forward in the last two years. The project seems to have been stuck between government departments NITI Aayog and the ministry of electronics and IT (Meity). Meity, in a last inter-ministerial meet, has raised apprehension over the numerous overlaps committed by the NITI Aayog related to AI road map. Now, the ministry has sought the intervention of finance ministry to look into it and resolve it, said ET report quoting govt official aware of the development.