The intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and GIS is creating massive opportunities that weren't possible before. AI, machine learning and deep learning are helping us make a better world by helping increase crop yield through precision agriculture, in fighting crime by deploying predictive policing models, or predicting when the next big storm will hit and being better equipped to handle it. One area of AI that has emerged in recent years is deep learning, and it has done exceedingly well in computer vision tasks. This is particularly useful for GIS, as satellite, aerial and drone imagery is being produced at a rate that makes it impossible to analyse and derive insight in a timely manner through traditional means. As the managing director of Esri's AI R&D Center in New Delhi, Rohit Singh leads the development of data science, deep learning and geospatial AI solutions in the ArcGIS platform.