The authorities is neither contemplating to deliver any regulation nor has any plans to regulate the progress of synthetic intelligence in the nation, Parliament was knowledgeable on Wednesday.
IT and Telecom Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw in a written submission to the Lok Sabha mentioned there are moral considerations and dangers round synthetic intelligence, and the authorities businesses have began making efforts to standardise accountable AI and promote the adoption of the greatest practices.
“NITI Aayog has published a series of papers on the subject of Responsible AI for All. However, the government is not considering bringing a law or regulating the growth of artificial intelligence in the country,” Vaishnaw mentioned.
In a reply to a separate query on ChatGPT know-how, Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar mentioned it’s a Large Language Model (LLM) launched by OpenAI.
“While it has made significant strides, there are still many challenges with these types of models,” Chandrasekhar mentioned.
In response to a query on the step that the authorities is taking to regulate the progress of AI in the nation, Vaishnaw mentioned that the authorities is harnessing the potential of AI to present personalised and interactive citizen-centric companies via digital public platforms.
“However, AI has ethical concerns and risks due to issues such as bias and discrimination in decision-making, privacy violations, lack of transparency in AI systems, and questions about responsibility for harm caused by it. These concerns have been highlighted in the National Strategy for AI (NSAI) released in June 2018,” Vaishnaw mentioned.
The minister shared that the Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY), together with CDAC, has additionally initiated a proof-of-concept undertaking on AIRAWAT (AI Research, Analytics and Knowledge Dissemination Platform) for offering a standard computing platform for AI analysis and information assimilation.
The AI computing infrastructure will likely be utilized by all know-how innovation hubs, analysis labs, scientific communities, and trade and startup establishments with National Knowledge Network.
“The PoC for AIRAWAT is developed with 200 petaflops Mix Precision AI Machine, which will be scalable to a peak compute of One AI Exaflop,” the minister mentioned.
He mentioned that National Informatics Centre (NIC) has arrange a Centre of Excellence in AI, which is concerned in facilitating AI as a service via on Meghraj cloud with 7 AI PFlops (petaflops) tremendous compute amenities created at Delhi and 5 AI PFlop in Kolkata.
