The software industry lobby Nasscom is setting
up centres of excellence on artificial intelligence (AI) and data sciences for
a better understanding on the emerging technologies, a top official has said.
With
the tech world getting divided between whether or not to regulate AI, the body
feels that technologies should be freely allowed to mature first before any
regulation comes in, President R Chandrasekhar announced at the ongoing Bengaluru Tech Summit 2017.
“We
are setting up a centre of excellence on AI and data sciences in Bengaluru and
Hyderabad. They will look at mapping the resources available in the country,
promoting start-ups in that area and also best practices globally, including
regulatory aspects,” he told the media recently.
He,
however, did not offer the investment that will go into these proposed centres
nor a timeline as to when the first centre of excellence will be functional.
When
sought his views on regulation of technologies, he said, “in the new-age
technologies, regulation is important but it need not always precede the advent
of technology as technology is evolving so quickly that regulation has only to
keep pace with that.”
It
can be noted that the tech world has been vertically divided over the aspect of
regulation, with Tesla founder Elon Musk pitching for regulation, while
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerburg opposing it.
“Whichever
side you are on, the time has not come to make laws which will guide behaviour
of robots and create an IPC (Indian Penal Code) for robots,” Chandrashekhar quipped.
He
said we have been too pessimistic because of the advent of new technologies and
its impact on the sector, which gets US revenues of upwards of $150 billion and
creates 4 million direct jobs.
No comments:
Post a Comment