Rajasthan AI summit: Ashwini Vaishnaw announces programme to train 10 lakh youth in AI
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A nationwide skilling programme to train up to 10 lakh people in Artificial Intelligence (AI) was launched on Tuesday during the Rajasthan AI summit on Tuesday. The event was held as part of preparations for the AI Impact Summit, which will take place in India next month.
Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw said AI will soon become a regular part of everyday life. “AI will become a part of our daily lives, just like electricity. Just as electricity reaches every home, AI technology will also reach every door. This is a major change, and we should accept it and use it to improve our lives,” he said.
The Minister said the Prime Minister has given a clear vision for the development of AI in India. “To develop AI in our country, our Prime Minister has shared a clear vision. The first step is to make technology available to everyone. This means ensuring that every person has access to it. Rajasthan has an important role to play in this effort,” he added.
Technology in every hand
Highlighting the focus on youth, the Minister said training young people is a key part of the mission. “Preparing our youth and students for this new technology is also a key part of our mission. As part of this goal, we have organised an event today to train 10 lakh young people in AI technology.”
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The AI Impact Summit has earlier been held in the UK, South Korea and France, and this year it will be hosted by India. Like India’s G20 presidency, regional AI summits are being organised across the country as part of the preparations.
Addressing the Rajasthan summit virtually, Vaishnaw said India is seeing around $70 billion in investment in AI and data centres. He said all levels of the AI ecosystem are receiving strong investments. He also said AI is becoming inseparable from daily life, similar to past changes brought by computers, the internet and mobile phones.
India’s AI Mission has gained global attention
The Minister said India’s AI Mission has gained global attention, with several countries studying India’s approach. A key part of this mission is making computing power affordable. He explained that expensive GPUs cannot be owned by everyone and that in many Western countries, AI computing is controlled by big companies.
He said India is working to provide high-quality computing at much lower costs so that students, start-ups, researchers and engineers can access it easily. Under the AI Mission, 38,000 GPUs have already been made available as part of what he called “common compute.”
Vaishnaw also referred to Stanford University’s latest AI Index, which has placed India among the top three AI nations, along with China and the United States.