Google announces various AI-based initiatives for India's digital needs

Google on Monday announced a series of new Artificial Intelligence AIbased initiatives for India aimed at addressing the language divide on the Internet supporting the digitisation of farmland in partnership with the Telangana Government and new collaborations and investments to drive responsible development of AI across the countryNew innovations were focused on bilingual users needs and new search capabilities using camera and voice a new fraud detection model for secure digital payments on Google Pay and integration with Digilocker in the files by Google app on Android to allow for easy access to key digital documents privately and safelyPositioning Indian language support on the Internet as the next big unlock for Indias digital transformation journey Google announced a collaboration with the Indian Institute of Science Bengaluru Project Vaani to capture diverse Indian dialects for building better AI language modelsIt said this collaboration is aimed at collecting and transcribing opensource speech data from across all of Indias 773 districts making it available through the government of Indias Bhashini projectSanjay Gupta Country Head and Vice President of Google India delivering his keynote address at its annual flagship Google For India event held here in the national capital said As partners in Indias digital transformation for nearly two decades we are deeply inspired by the myriad ways people have woven technology into every aspect of their everyday lives placing Indias digital transformation at a tipping pointAs access continues to broaden connectivity must become rewarding for all people everywhere and enable everyone to seamlessly move up the digital value chain for individual progress Were excited to launch concerted efforts with AI to democratize this opportunity and solve for languages security and transformation of scaled sectors such as agriculture and healthcare Gupta said adding that under the Google for India Digitization fund it will continue to support the innovation ecosystem with a commitment to support earlystage and womenled startupsAlso Read Google to focus on investing in womenled earlystage startupsManish Gupta Director of Research Google India said that over the past three years since Google Research was launched in India with a focus on building technology solutions that can create a meaningful impact for a billion IndiansWe look forward to working closely with our ecosystem partners as we continue to responsibly deploy Googles AI and Machine Learning innovations towards answering big societal needs from democratizing access to information by enabling more inclusive and powerful Indian language capabilities to working with the Telangana state government to utilize remote sensing for a deeper understanding of Indias farmlands to helping digitize medical prescriptions by way of an assistive tool which can be used on a smartphone Gupta addedAt the event Liz Reid Vice President of Google Search said that the investments for over a decade have helped it take consistent strides towards building a search experience thats accessible and useful to everyone in IndiaToday India is at the forefront of visual and voice search adoption consuming content in different languages and there is still tremendous opportunity to meet peoples information needs With advances in AI were making Search more helpful than ever by introducing new Indiafirst and Indiafocused innovations that enable more people to navigate the internet in ways that are most natural and intuitive to them Reid addedThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever