Context
Recently, the second-year anniversary of National AI Portal has been celebrated on 30th May, 2022.
What is ‘National AI Portal’?
- INDIAai (The National AI Portal) is a joint initiative by the Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY), National e-Governance Division (NeGD) and NASSCOM.
- It serves as a central hub for AI related news, learning, articles, events and activities etc., in India and beyond.
- It is the single central knowledge hub on artificial intelligence and allied fields for aspiring entrepreneurs, students, professionals, academics, and everyone else.
Achievements of AI portal
In the year 2021-22, INDIAai provided recent and relevant analysis in AI through stories, Interviews analyses and webinars.
- Over 685 news stories, 1073 articles, 275 startups, 33 colleges, 588 people, 202 videos, 64 courses, 128 government initiatives, 125 academic initiatives, 47 corporate initiatives and many more were listed and published in the portal last year.
- In 2021, INDIAai and NASSCOM launched the first edition of the Lab2Market initiative. It was launched to boost industry-academia collaboration.
- In 2021, MeitY launched INDIAai’s 75@75 compendium on the first day of Azadi Ka Digital Mahotsav.
- The portal also introduced new sections that published article series on AI concepts for Beginners, covering subjects such as Turing tests, soft computing, development frameworks, symbolic and neuro-symbolic AI, etc.
- The portal is the home of multiple research reports that provide an understanding of the latest happenings in AI.
Upcoming targets
- One of the major focuses of the IndiaAi will be in the area of AI Literacy in the country.
- AI literacy will enable young learners to achieve their aspirations without any digital divide.
- Inclusion and security as design principles for taking the benefits of AI to the bottom of the pyramid. AI can help professionals in a great way to save time from repetitive work to focus more on human-centric work.
What is Artificial Intelligence (AI)?
- Artificial intelligence is the branch of computer science concerned with making computers behave like humans.
- AI refers to the ability of machines to perform cognitive tasks like thinking, perceiving, learning, problem solving and decision making.
- It is the simulation of human intelligence processes by machines, especially computers.
- It refers to the ability of machines to perform cognitive tasks like thinking, perceiving, learning, problem solving and decision making and execute tasks in real time situations without constant supervision.
- Particular applications of AI include expert systems, speech recognition and machine vision.
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