AI Progress
"AI’s disruptive potential in the workplace is clear, and the education system must be poised to respond quickly.” - National Education Policy (2020), India.
The acronym AI is everywhere these days. In the below illustration, obtained using Google nGram, you can see a comparison of the frequencies of words mechanical, electrical and computer science with artificial intelligence, in printed sources published between 1840 and 2019 (in a huge text corpora created by Google). This serves as quick snapshot highlighting the rise of AI.
Selected Data Science & AI Reports from India and Outside
You can gather more insights into the progress made in AI by taking a look at the in-depth reports widely available on the web. Below we list some of the reports we have found useful.
- The AI & Data Science Workforce, by U.S. - India Artificial Intelligence (USIAI) Initiative.
- Indo-US Visioning Workshop - Panel Discussion
- 2022 AI Index report, by Stanford University.
- Artificial Intelligence, by European Commision.
- A compendium features 75 use cases of AI that are impacting people and governance across India, by India AI, a MIETY, NEGD & NASSCOM Initiative.
- The One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence (AI100) 2021 Study Panel Report, by Stanford University.
AI Initiatives
There are several initiatives by numerous organizations around the world. Some of these initiatives are launched at national level by the government to help democratize the benefits of AI-based applications, and others are lanuched by independent organizations. Below is a list of small sample of these initiatives.
- Digital India, by Government of India.
- India AI, a MIETY, NEGD & NASSCOM Initiative.
- AI 4 Bharat, an initiative of IIT Madras, is on building open-source language AI for Indian languages.
- Kaggle Datasets, a collection of varied kinds of open-acess datasets and machine learning challenges.
Data Science needs data. You never know what kind of information you’ll find when analyzing a particular dataset. Sometimes it can be an eye-opener! To get started with your own analysis, you may find the below portals useful. Many of these host open-access datasets.Dataset Portals
Global and National
- Data.Gov.in, a portal by Government of India to access varied national datasets.
- World Bank Open Data, by The World Bank.
- Datahub Enterprise, by Datahub.
- UN Data, by the United Nations.
- Data.World, by Data World Organization.
- The Humanitarian Data Exchange. Find, share and use humanitarian data all in one place, a service by OCHA.
Brain Imaging Dataset Portals
Speech and Text Dataset Portals
- Open SLR, a Open Speech and Language Resources dataset.
- The Spoken Wikipedia Corpora, by NatS, Uni. Hamburg.
Weather and Climate Dataset Portals
- Berkeley Earth, time-series datasets to understand Global Warming.
- Climate Data Service Portal, India a service by India Meteorological Department.
Recently, recognizing the need to create AI-skilled diverse workforce, multiple universities in India and abroad have launched Undergrdaruate (BTech and BS), Masters and PhD programs in Data Science and AI. While a number of India’s higher education institutions are well on their way to delivering new AI and DS programs, many other institutions are just beginning the journey. Following are links to DS and AI departments at some of the prominent universities in India.Data Science and AI Institutes in India
- AI at IISc, at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
- C-MINDS, at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.
- Yardi School of Artificial Intelligence, at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.
- Mehta Family School of Data Science and AI, at Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee.
- Center of Excellence in AI, at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.
- Data Science, at Indian Institute of Technology, Pallakad.
- Artificial Intelligence, at Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad.
- Robert Bosch Center for DA & AI , at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.