New Delhi:
Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are inevitable and will bring “new kinds of jobs… new scale of jobs,” India’s G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant said at the NDTV World Summit on Tuesday night.
Kant also mentioned that artificial intelligence, referring to large-scale language models, a type of machine learning that can perform natural language processing, “instead of creating LLMs, will improve society (and) human development for the better.” He also said that it must be used for , or NLP tasks.
“All the talk so far about AI is about LLMs. But AI should impact the lives of our people. So we need AI to improve learning outcomes, improve health outcomes… “AI should also be used to improve the quality of life,” he said at the NDTV World Summit.
Kant further added that “AI should not be used solely to create LLMs that, due to the assumptions on which they are based, may tomorrow be at odds over ethical issues,” adding, “Therefore, “It is critical that AI be repurposed to transform people’s lives.” ”
Asked whether AI would replace existing jobs (an alarming scenario for critics of the technology), Kant replied: “AI is inevitable…but it will bring new kinds of jobs…so we need to create more skilled talent” in these fields (data science, machine learning, etc.) ) people. ”
“And that is what many of our IITs are doing today,” he said.
From Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s opening remarks, AI has been a recurring topic at the NDTV Summit. Speaking on Monday, Modi said the government is working to increase the use of AI in each sector of the economy.
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“This is the age of AI and the future of the world is linked to AI,” he said, adding, “India is being driven by two AIs. Artificial intelligence for the world, but for us ‘ambitious’ “India is the best country in the world.” “+ Artificial Intelligence. When the two meet, it will accelerate India’s growth.”
And earlier today, at a panel discussion on domestic AI innovation, top business leaders from the private sector called for AI to become part of the education system.
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As India, and the world, explores the world of artificial intelligence and machine learning, there were some voices of caution at the NDTV World Summit. Bharti Group Chairman Sunil Mittal acknowledged that AI will be one of the most important drivers of the global economy, but caution is needed as new technologies pose new challenges, including potential for abuse. He also said.
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Mr. Mittal cited a personal anecdote in which a senior financial official based in Dubai received a fraudulent phone call that appeared to imitate Mr. Mittal’s voice and tone and instructed him to transfer a large sum of money.
“The challenge is to create two Americas in 50 years.”
On the larger issue of India’s economic development, particularly its goal of becoming the world’s third-largest economy by 2030, Kant said it is important to not only revitalize manufacturing, but also reskill and tap into India’s youth. emphasized the need.
“Growing the economy from $4 trillion to $30 trillion means GDP has to grow nine times, per capita income eight times, and manufacturing 16 times. That’s the challenge. …and to overcome that, India needs to become an important part of the (global) value chain,” he told NDTV.
“We need to urbanize, because in the next 50 years 500 million people will enter the process of urbanization (and) that means India’s challenge is to create two Americas… ” he said.
Kant also stressed the need to make the agricultural sector more efficient so that India can bring down the proportion of people involved in the sector from the current around 45% without impacting food security. .
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