The Museum of Art and Photography (MAP) is a curious case study of India's changing relationship with art. Industrialist Abhishek Poddar's philanthropic initiative to make his formidable collection of art, photography and textiles available to the public took off as a digital platform in 2016. Since then, the museum has launched a series of educational ventures in collaboration with notable international museums like The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, as well as tech giants like Accenture and Microsoft. Now, in a reversal of the usual offline-to-digital transition that most museums are forced to make, MAP will take physical form in the heart of Bengaluru at a stunning five-storey museum, set to open to the public in mid February 2023. It will include four large galleries, an extensive library, a multimedia gallery, a 130-seat auditorium, a technology centre, a sculpture courtyard, a research and conservation laboratory, a learning centre, a gift store, a café, and a fine-dining restaurant on the terrace.

India will see the breakthrough application of artificial intelligence (AI) in various areas including the National Language Translation Mission, said Infosys Chairman Nandan Nilekani. Nilekani said this during a fireside chat with Ajay Sawhney, secretary in the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), and Debjani Ghosh, president of IT industry body Nasscom. The interaction was organized by INDIAai, a national AI portal set up by MeitY, National E-Governance Division, and Nasscom. "The work that MeitY is doing on the national language translation mission is a disruptive opportunity," Nilekani said. "India is unique in the fact that it has such a large number of languages, all co-mingling, and most Indians speak two to three languages and so on. Creating the world's best language capability, whether its speech, text to speech, whether its language to language, I think India is well placed to show the world how to do it," he added.

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The government is running artificial intelligence (AI)-based pilot projects in six Union territories in the field of health care, and such projects in education, agriculture, social justice, criminal justice as well as investigation are also being worked out, Electronics and IT Secretary Ajay Sawhney said on Tuesday. McKinsey Head (Global Analytics) Noshir Kaka said the development in the field of AI in India can add around USD 500 billion to the economy over the next four-and-a-half years based on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's aspiration to make the country a USD 5-trillion economy. Speaking at the RAISE 2020 summit, Sawhney said AI is moving towards being an ecosystem that includes the database, authorised service provider, authorised service agency and authorised registrar, among others. "We are trying to move forward to make this happen in all the important domains in the economy, starting with health care. It's not just announced but being rolled out in pilot phase in six Union territories," Sawhney said.

Data-driven experiences are rich, immersive and immediate. Think pizza delivery by drone, video cameras that can record traffic accidents at an intersection, freight trucks that can identify a potential system failure. These kinds of fast-acting activities need lots of data -- quickly. So they can't sustain latency as data travels to and from the cloud. That to-and-fro takes too long.

The government is now working on policies to develop electronic components manufacturing base in the country and encourage exports, secretary in the Ministry of Electronics and IT Ajay Prakash Sawhney said. "From near assembly, we are right now moving in that direction seriously with policies to bringing sub-assemblies..., component manufacturing in India," Sawhney said at the Digital Governance Tech Summit. Once printed circuit board (PCB or the motherboard) assembly takes off in India, it will not only cater to the mobile phone segment, but also other major electronic devices, he added. The last five years, the MeiTY secretary said, witnessed a resurgence of manufacturing in India, starting with assembling of mobile phones. "From around six crore mobile phones that were being assembled in 2014-15, we closed the last financial year with assembly of 29 crore mobile phones within the country. Our entire consumption for the country is about 33-34 crore a year," Sawhney said.

Cloud kitchen startup InnerChef plans to launch more kitchens alongside fresh food brands as it looks to leverage artificial intelligence and data analytics in 2018. "We will launch additional kitchens alongside more food brands under our'multi-city and multi-brand' strategy. We will add Pune and Ahmedabad under our operations in 2018 as we start five more kitchens in addition to the existing 13 operating out of Delhi NCR, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Bengaluru. By the end of the year, we are looking to have nearly 40 kitchens. We are also looking to leverage data analytics to improve customer experience," Rajesh Sawhney, founder and CEO of InnerChef, told VCCircle.