New Delhi, Mar 18 :India and the US have launched an Artificial Intelligence initiative that will provide key stakeholders an opportunity to share experiences, identify new R&D areas and opportunities which would benefit from synergistic activities, discuss the emerging AI landscape, and address the challenges of developing an AI workforce.
The ambitious US-India AI Initiative (USIAI) leverages the India US Science and Technology Forum’s ability to bring together key stakeholders from India and the United States to create synergies that address challenges and opportunities at the interface of science, technology, and society.
Over the next year, IUSSTF will conduct a series of round tables and workshops to gather input from different stakeholder communities and prepare White Papers that identify technical, research, infrastructure, and workforce opportunities and challenges, and domain-specific opportunities for R&D in healthcare, smart cities, materials, agriculture, energy, and manufacturing.
Department of Science & Technology Secretary, Ashutosh Sharma, emphasised the necessity to scale up S&T partnership between India and the US to solve problems of both countries and overcome barriers for growth.
He also said that research, technology in artificial intelligence is being promoted and implemented in the country through a network of 25 technology hubs working as a triple helix set up under the National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems.
Nandini Kannan, Executive Director IUSSTF, said, “The AI Initiative is another example of IUSSTF’s critical role in catalyzing collaborations between India and the US in cutting-edge areas of science and technology.”(UNI)