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Industrialization and Digitization has changed the wayhumans look at life. The world is moving at a technological pacewherein with every passing minute an invention is done, and a lotof these inventions are beyond human imagination. One suchtechnology is Artificial Intelligence or AI as it is popularlyknown. AI has brought extensive changes around the world. AI is aterm for simulated intelligence in machines.1

According to the father of Artificial Intelligence, JohnMcCarthy, it is 'The science and engineering of makingintelligent machines, especially intelligent computerprograms'.2 In simple words, it is anythingthat can learn and perform functions on its own without anyintervention by humans. AI is the ability of simulated machines tomimic human thoughts like problem solving and learning. Thesemachines also understand human languages, speech and are skilled instrategic thinking.

Artificial Intelligence is a part of our daily lives. Siri,Alexa, Google Maps, Uber, Turnitin and other machine learningapplications are all products of AI. AI is touted as the future ofmankind. AI has already started making its mark in plethora offields and industries like healthcare, education, transportation,agriculture and many more.

To embrace this new wave called AI, India has made a modestbeginning this year by devoting a huge amount of money. In hisBudget Presentation on February 1, finance minister Arun Jaitleyannounced a national programme on AI to be spearheaded by NitiAayog.3 Approximately USD 480 million dollars have beendedicated to artificial intelligence, machine learning and IoT thisyear.4 Many industries and institutions are taking aleap in the field of AI. One of the most robust inventions arecoming in the field of health care, which is utilizing AI incollecting, storing, normalizing, and tracing data. From smartphoneand health tracker revolutions, it has become possible for a userto analyze all relevant data or simply to be up-to-date abouthis/her health.

Currently, a low cost portable home-based rehabilitationsolution device is produced which helps patient exercise forflexion and extension of wrist and fingers. The device has beentested on 20 stroke patients in All India Institute of MedicalSciences (AIIMS), Delhi and can also be combined with the brainstimulation device.

Moreover, institutions like Indian Institute of Technology(IIT), Delhi have developed many innovations based on AI rangingfrom an "intelligent" prosthetic limb and anon-hazardous, longlasting "flow battery" to a new typeof loom and technology to convert agriculture waste into pulp thatsaves 40% water and energy than usual. Further, Centre forBiomedical Engineering has developed a new Intelligent ArtificialLeg for people who have lost their legs above the knee. Theseartificial devices are cheap and durable and uses smart sensingtechnology in the shoes to adapt to the movement of theindividual.

As they say every coin has two sides. With AI benefits comescertain challenges that can be a major threat to the mankind. Forexample, the security of the large amounts of data that AI wouldstore. Another major issue that stands is the privacy of thepersonal data that AI would gather.

No doubt that artificial intelligence has unimaginablepotential. The next few decades would definitely mark a shift frommachine intelligence to artificial superintelligence and set fortha new era in which a computer's cognitive ability will besuperior to human's. Nevertheless, along with the new AIinventions, we as a country also need to invest in strong step tofight the challenges that this necessary devil would bring alongit.

Footnotes

1https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/artificial-intelligence-ai.asp

2https://www.tutorialspoint.com/artificial_intelligence/artificial_intelligence_overview.htm

3 Economic Times report available here

4https://analyticsindiamag.com/where-artificial-intelligence-research-in-india-is-heading/

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