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Microsoft India Signs a Pact with NITI for AI Tools in Agriculture, Healthcare

Posted on the 25 October 2018 by Kharim Tomlinson @KharimTomlinson

Artificial intelligence is getting big with passing time. The tech world is curious about how it will go in the future. Artificial intelligence is a controversial discovery of all time. A lot of debate is happening in the community of world leaders. Some people are against the AI because of its possible destructive impact on future human civilization whereas some are saying AI is the demand of the future to sustain and grow the human civilizations.

But multimillionaire tech giant Microsoft is focusing on the bright side of AI and its applications. Recently, Microsoft India signed an agreement with NITI Aayog to deploy artificial intelligence technologies to tackle down the challenges in agriculture and healthcare industries. The company will also promote the adoption of local language computing, among others.

Microsoft India signs a pact with NITI for AI tools in Agriculture, Healthcare
The layout of the investment of Microsoft India

In the official statement of Microsoft India, it will support NITI Aayog by combining the cloud, AI, research and others new initiatives and solutions across the various core areas.

Under the agreement, Microsoft will provide NITI Aayog high range and advanced AI-based solutions to fight the challenges in healthcare and agriculture sectors. In the health sectors, including farm advisory services, healthcare screening models at Primary Health Centers and building capacity for AI through education among others. Microsoft will also promote STEM education in the field of AI studies and data sciences for emerging young women in premium institutes identified by NITI Aayog.

Media houses and various print media portals are appreciating the important step taken by Microsoft India. It will benefit and improve our agriculture sectors and education sectors where we have a critical requirement for new technologies. It will automatically boost our economy.

A brief analysis of this big step of Microsoft in AI

Last year, the CEO of Microsoft Satya Nadella said in a media appearance, his company is not pursuing AI to beat humans at the games but to empower people of the world and organizations to solve the most complex problems of society and economy to make the world a better place.

The basic question arises in our mind, how we can use all our computational power to solve the fundamental problem of the world. According to Nadella, AI will help us to provide to a better world to live when this technology will be helping everyone to achieve more in their life-humans and machines working together to make the world a beautiful and better place to live. We are going to harness AI to fundamentally change how we interact with the ambient computing, the agents, in our lives.

In the year 2017, Microsoft announced that they are going to investing $50 million over the next five years to place the artificial intelligence technology in the hands of individuals and organizations around the world who are serious about the climate change consequences. We can say by making a strong proclamation that is both financial and strategic, this company may induce additional commitments from other big and powerful companies in the IT industry.

In the bottom line, we can solve the problems of climate change and other future problems through AI or any technology may be the best overall business strategy for Microsoft-and for everyone else.

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Johnny Morgan is a writer with a keen interest in business, technology and marketing topics. He is also associated with Aegis Infoways which offers Microsoft Dynamics 365 Services .


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