How China can help India take a giant leap in artificial intelligence
New Delhi: Tech honchos in Silicon Valley are deeply worried at China's rapid progress in harnessing Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology that has shown encouraging results in changing the way we work and live.
According to Eric Schmidt, former chairman of Alphabet, the parent company of Google, China will overtake the US in AI by 2025.
Measured by start-up financing deals and dollars from venture capitalists, the United States' AI start-up ecosystem currently dominates .
Prime Minister Narendra Modi now wants that AI technology should be "Made in India" and "Made to Work for India" but despite promising starts, the country's policy initiatives are not comprehensive yet and lag other G20 countries.
China, on the other hand, today harbours one of the biggest clusters of AI scientists.
According to The Economist, China's State Council has issued an ambitious policy blueprint, calling for the country to become "the world's primary AI innovation