Artificial Intelligence (AI), especially the field of machine learning (ML), is transforming virtually all aspects of our lives.
We are fortunate to have Dr. Manish Gupta, the Director at Google Research India as our next speaker to show us how the AI research at Google Research is helping India to tackle its own issues.
His talk describes preliminary efforts at Google Research India to tackle problems arising in the Indian context and beyond. He starts with examples of opportunities to apply ML to accelerate science and its applications, and some early results. He then describes a critical need and an opportunity to improve health outcomes globally at lower costs, and specific challenges in countries like India of an acute shortage of doctors.
As examples, he describes a convolutional neural network based solution developed by his research team towards more effective screening of diabetic retinopathy, as well as ongoing efforts towards prevention of cardiovascular disease.
He describes AI for Social Good program through which they are addressing issues like public health, education and wildlife conservation, in partnership with NGOs and academic researchers.
He gives a narrative on challenges arising due to factors like diversity of languages and code mixing for Google products like Search and Assistant, which are being used daily by tens of millions of users in India, and the natural language processing research.
Finally, he describes outstanding challenges associated with the overall field of AI itself, like safety, data privacy, and fairness, and our guiding principles and directions to address them.
All are cordially invited by the RSC Bhopal and RSC Calicut to attend this lecture that might also be a milestone in a sense that this is a program wherein two remote units of NCSM are collaborating to present a modern narrative on one of the most cutting-edge technology at service to the nation. Krishnenduy Chowdhury, Manash Bagchi and Director NSCM will be in conversation with Dr. Gupta after the talk.
Artificial Intelligence (AI), especially the field of machine learning (ML), is transforming virtually all aspects of our lives. We are fortunate to have Dr. Manish Gupta, the Director at Google Research India as our next speaker to show us how the AI research at Google Research is helping India to tackle its own issues.
