Religions want moral-ethical guardrails as Artificial Intelligence heads towards sentience

New Delhi, August 09, 2022: In view of fast emerging Artificial Intelligence with the possibility of artificial sentience, the world needs to seriously and urgently address the ethical and moral issues surrounding it; a multi-faith coalition of Christian-Hindu-Buddhist-Jewish leaders warns. Senior Episcopal priest in Connecticut Father Thomas W. Blake, Greek-Orthodox Christian clergyman in Nevada Father […]

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New artificial Intelligence-based tools can help finding habitable planets

New Delhi, February 24, 2022: Utilising an Artificial Intelligence-based algorithm, Indian Astronomers have devised a new approach for identifying potentially habitable planets with a high probability. Since time immemorial, humanity has been looking at the cosmos and believing that other inhabited worlds are out there. Current estimates are that the number of planets in our […]

IIT Roorkee launches seven new academic programmes

New Delhi, August 7, 2021: IIT Roorkee has launched seven new academic programmes in select areas of engineering, architecture, economics, and management along with specialization in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence to cater to the rising demand for new-age technologies. Secretary, Department of Science & Technology (DST) Professor Ashutosh Sharma hoped that these programmes would […]

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Artificial Intelligence for good governance

Union Minister of Commerce & Industry and Civil Aviation, Suresh Prabhu said that Government will use Artificial Intelligence (AI) for good governance and proper regulations and corrective action will be taken to protect citizen’s privacy and ownership of data. India is transporting more data than US and China put together and the top six companies […]

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NITI Aayog launches global hackathon On Artificial Intelligence

NITI Aayog is now partnering with Perlin – a Singapore-based Artificial Intelligence start up – to launch the ‘AI 4 All Global Hackathon’, and is inviting developers, students, start-ups and companies to develop Artificial Intelligence applications to make significant positive social and economic impact for India. Artificial Intelligence to monitor the food production in base kitchens […]

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Artificial Intelligence to monitor the food production in base kitchens

An artificial intelligence module has been developed by IRCTC (Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation) to find anomalies in standard operating procedure using CCTV footage. With this module base kitchens will be monitored pan India. The Artificial Intelligence module realises the value of their videos and photos with vision computing. It can detect an unexpected change […]