India has the highest level of artificial intelligence (AI) skill penetration and has adopted a policy approach of avoiding overregulation to ensure innovation thrives, Union Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Jitin Prasada said on Monday.
Speaking at a session at the AI Impact Summit, Prasada said the present government is agile and listens to all ideas. The government fine-tunes its policies and programmes as per the need of the hour, he said.
Stating that India has trajectory, speed, and scale to offer to the world in the AI space, the minister said, “We have maximum AI skill penetration, we have gone ahead with the policy of ensuring not to overregulate so that innovation thrives. We are ensuring that graphic processing unit (GPU) access has been available as far as possible at the cheapest cost.”
The availability of GPUs at affordable prices will help young startups and the future generations, who have the best minds and design capabilities. He said India is not looking at competing with the big models, but looking at scalable models which have impact within the country. “The country is looking at AI models that have impact on a particular sector or region or a particular community and that's where India's focus lies,” the minister said.
“The focus is on making technology available to all and India wants to democratise technologies. But it's not only about access to technology, now we have to go deeper and beyond access and make sure we have scalable solutions in every aspect... We are rightly positioned for that,” he added.
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