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Budget 2019: Industry leaders hail proposal on AI portaledit
As part of Interim Budget 2019, finance minister Piyush Goyal made an announcement regarding Artificial Intelligence (AI), one of the fastest growing technologies at the moment. He said that there is a consideration for a National Centre for AI (NCAI) and a National AI Portal. The proposal has sparked reactions in the Indian tech community—with startup founders to AI developers, tech institutions to AI investors all enthused by the market potential this move can unleash.
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Future of tech includes the Internet of Bodies, Social Credit Algorithms and Digital Twins: IEEE Computer Societyedit
IEEE Computer Society (IEEECS) tech experts unveil their annual predictions for the future of tech, presenting what they believe will be the most widely adopted technology trends in 2019.
IEEEIndustry News: Information and Communications
Artificial intelligence Predictions for the Year 2019edit
Artificial intelligence (AI) is invading our everyday lives, but it’s not as scary a concept as people once thought. AI has shown it can make our personal lives much easier, but it doesn’t stop in our homes. Businesses are constantly coming up with new ways to use AI to engage with customers, make processes easier and drive sales.
Artificial IntelligenceHow Artificial Intelligence is contributing to the upliftment of rural India?edit
Since the last decade, the world has seen an accelerated change in technology and digitisation. Around the last end of the century, it was very clear that internet is going to be the backbone of much technological advancement. Beginning of this century saw development of mobile technologies and now the shift has started to the Artificial Intelligent world.
Artificial IntelligenceTrends that will shape digital communications in 2019edit
The National Telecom Policy became the National Digital Communications Policy (NDCP). Telecom Commission became the Digital Communications Commission. This is a heartening trend because we have always been of the opinion that communication has grown far bigger than just telecom. While a name change may seem like a small move, it denotes a shift in how the government is looking at propelling the future of communication in India.
Digital Communications Trends2019 Will Be The Inflection Point For Conversational Artificial Intelligence (AI) In India, Predicts Deloitteedit
Deloitte India’s ninth edition of its signature publication ‘Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT) Predictions’ was released recently. The report predicts that the year 2019 will be the inflection point for conversational artificial intelligence (AI) in India, with voice assistants witnessing wider adoption beyond smart speakers. It further adds that voice assistants will move well beyond information access and entertainment in the next two to three years.
Conversational AIIndustry News: Future of Mobility
Climate Group EV100 initiative gets 31 companiesedit
Around 31 leading firms worldwide with a combined revenue of US $500 billion have extended their support to the nonprofit organisation The Climate Groups EV 100 initiative to stimulate the electrification of transport, organisation said in its latest report.
Electric Vehicles6000 new buses including electric vehicles for public transport will be purchased: TN housing Secyedit
Tamilnadu state would buy 6,000 new buses including electric vehicles for public transportation including in Chennai says Tamilnadu housing urban development secretary S Krishnan. Krishnan said Tamilnadu government was focusing on improving public transportation. Citing the ongoing work of metro rail, he said, We have an agreement with KFW, the German agency, to buy 6,000 new buses including electric vehicles.
e busIndustry News: Future of Work
Can placemaking create jobs?edit
According to FICCI, NASSCOM & EY reports on “Future of Jobs”, approximately 9 per cent of workforce would be deployed in new jobs that do not exist today, 37 per cent would be engaged in jobs that have radically changed skill sets and 54 per cent will fall under unchanged job category.
Future of JobsWhat is gig economy, the future of India’s workforce?edit
The business environment is rapidly changing with new technologies disrupting the way organisations function across all sectors. Every organisation therefore has to rethink its model and imbibe changes to survive in this dynamic business environment driven by ever changing customer expectations.
The jobs AI will take over firstedit
There has been a lot of talk about the future of robotics and artificial intelligence; some good and some bad. Will AI make our lives easier in the future? Will we be able to achieve more with robotics? Will robots be taking our jobs…? It seems as though that question has already been answered by experts around the globe. Yes, AI will take over human jobs to some extent. However, which jobs will the robots take first?
AIFuture of JobsIndustry News: Education
The Modi Years: What has the government done to improve higher education in India?edit
The Bharatiya Janata Party’s 2014 manifesto promised a restructuring of the University Grants Commission, which regulates higher educational institutions in India. Four years and several false starts later, in July 2018, the Modi government drafted a bill to scrap the Commission and replace it with a Higher Education Council of India with different composition and functions.
Higher EducationHow to make kids aware about Robotics, the new-age engineering field booming with future jobsedit
Children are encouraged to learn and start making. It can be anything from coding to learning how to animate videos to sewing or simply making a good ol’ robot. The sky’s the limit!
Engineering
Industry News: Skilling
Education and skilling opportunities in the interim budgetedit
The interim budget announces various measures like interest subvention on loans to small businesses and village industries; The proposal to transform one lakh villages into digital villages over the next 5 years is expected to generate jobs.
Skill Development