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TRENDING STORY

"AI solutions build on ML and and the National Cyber
DL are based on huge volume Security Strategy, 2020,"
of condential data. India is shares Naqui Ahmad,
dening its direction with the Country Manager, NZXT INC.,

Personal Data Protection Bill, South Asia - APAC.
2019,

NAQUI AHMAD

Country Manager,

NZXT INC., South Asia - APAC

Challenges of AI Adoption in India

India spends only 0.6% of the GDP on R&D. This is a major impediment to the growth of AI in India.

India also ranked very low in the AI ow index by the Global AI summit 2019.

The lack of infrastructure for the development of AI in India. Out of the 500 most powerful
supercomputers in the world there are only three in India, while the USA and China hold over 100 and

200 respectively. Hence competing with such global powers becomes very challenging.

India has lacked in the patent department due to the poor denition and enforcement of intellectual
property, but that is slowly changing with over 12% of AI IP being patented.

Other social concerns, such as privacy threats, data security, lack of integrity to be considered.

May 2021