Student distress is an increasingly recognised concern, poignantly reflected in the rising instances of student suicides across institutions of higher learning in India. Despite institutional mechanis...
ENVIRONMENT, FORESTS, BIODIVERSITY
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has announced plans to reduce the Kaziranga Eco-Sensitive Zone (ESZ) to one km as opposed to the current 10 km. The state government’s intention has raised con...
Glaw Lake was recently designated as Arunachal Pradesh’s First and India’s 101st Ramsar Site. It is located within the Kamlang Tiger Reserve and Wildlife Sanctuary. It hosts diverse flora and fauna sp...
The popular discourse on future of artificial intelligence oscillates between extreme tales of job loss and human-robot wars on the one hand and exceptional impact on all walks of life on the other. I...
Isolated events such as AI driven programmes beating the world champion at chess have served to deepen the mystique of AI. AI mimics human intelligence and is better at tasks that demonstrably need h...
Research on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in India started in the 1960s. Since then, the scene has changed dramatically as far as AI and machine learning are concerned. The article outlines six recomme...
Accurate weather forecasting plays an important role in planning human activities. As opposed to conventional physics-based weather models, data-based models make use of past data to apply machine lea...
The popular discourse on future of artificial intelligence oscillates between extreme tales of job loss and human-robot wars on the one hand and exceptional impact on all walks of life on the other. In this article we discuss these and related questions regarding the importance of AI in modern life.
Isolated events such as AI driven programmes beating the world champion at chess have served to deepen the mystique of AI. AI mimics human intelligence and is better at tasks that demonstrably need high levels of acumen. This is not new. Periodically AI has risen to prominence to fade away into semi-oblivion. This article briefly traces the journey of AI, the caveats as well as the implications o...
Research on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in India started in the 1960s. Since then, the scene has changed dramatically as far as AI and machine learning are concerned. The article outlines six recommendations for nurturing AI research ecosystem to develop national level capabilities in India.
