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Introduction
Artificial Intelligence or AI as we popularly call it is really a very hot topic nowadays and people are showing interests towards AI and the jobs in that field, especially Government Jobs for that matter. For the rest of the blog, I would be using the short form of Artificial Intelligence i.e. AI.
Now AI can be implemented in various fields ranging from Agriculture to Health Care to Various production industries and a lot more. But what today we are going to take a look at are the Government Jobs that are offered in AI.
So let’s begin.
Government Jobs in Artifiicial Intelligence
Firstly If you want to gain knowledge on what AI is then here’s a link to an article on that:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/what-is-ai-everything-you-need-to-know-about-artificial-intelligence/
Now, Government of India has taken many initiatives for creating Government Jobs in AI.
One such initiative is the NITI Aayog. The link to the PDF is here:
https://niti.gov.in/writereaddata/files/document_publication/NationalStrategy-for-AI-Discussion-Paper.pdf
This is officially published from the Govt. of India where in it talks about the implementation of ai in specific focussed areas for health , agriculture, smart cities etc. and also the challenges faced in India regarding the implementation.Something important to refer in this pdf are the Actions of the Government in page 91.In this page it talks about the various areas of ai which the govt is looking for and where the Govt is investing.For example the govt is really looking forward to researchers in ai in different colleges and educational institutes and they are investing in it.That means the researcher or the scholar who is working on ai will get benefited in terms of stipends and facilities.The schemes are valid for faculty fellowships , inter academia collaborations and PhD scholarships.These are one kind of job opportunity created in ai. But you might be thinking about specific roles in govt jobs in ai. Well govt. has these schemes and tie ups with PSUs and also large IT firms from which you can be benefitted.If you want to know specifically about the role or job profile of the future then click on this link.
http://tech2stop.com/data-science-is-the-career-of-the-future-lets-know-why/
Another important thing done by the govt is the setting up of Centre of Excellences which are there to nurture your skill and develop them further.
Let’s talk about some of the instances where govt of India has focussed on ai.
1) Safe and Ethical Use of AI
Recently, the government of Tamil Nadu announced that they are working on a policy for the safe and ethical use of artificial intelligence. This first-of-a-kind policy will be like a rule book for the state agencies and vendors who will be using AI for governance services.
2) Automated Facial Recognition System (AFRS) To Identify Criminals
The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India recently released a tender in order to create Automated Facial Recognition System (AFRS). The proposed AI system will be trained using the collection of the database of photos of Indian citizens.
3) AI System in Government Buses
In August, the Government of Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka announced the plan to install AI systems in the buses in order to alert sleepy drivers and avoid collisions. The AI-powered anti-collision systems comprise two sensors, one at the front bumper to alert the bus driver of any danger or the possibility of a collision and the second sensor is fitted near the headlight switch in order to alert inattentive or sleepy-head drivers.
4) AI-Based Traffic Scan
In May this year, the Government of West Bengal and the state IT department along with the police announced that they are working on an AI system in order to monitor vehicles and send an alert instantly to the police if there is any abnormality in the driving behaviour. The AI-enabled device will track the vehicles if the distance between two speeding cars becomes too less and it will send an alert immediately to the nearest traffic police.
5) Chatbot to Register House and Marriage
A few months ago, the Information Technology, Electronics and Communications (ITE&C) department of Telangana announced that the department is working on chatbots which will work on robotic process automation (RPA). The chat will extract details like locations of sub-registrar offices (SRO), the fee for marriage, property and society registrations, among others.
6) India to Use AI And 100 PF Supercomputer To Improve Weather Prediction
In an International Workshop on Prediction skill of extreme Precipitation events and tropical cyclones: Present status and future Prospect (IP4) & Annual Climate Change, the Union Secretary for Earth Sciences, Dr. M. Rajeevan announced the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning to help in improving the understanding of weather and climate phenomena and their forecasting. Currently, the Ministry is working on augmenting the existing supercomputing facility to 100 petaflops (PF) in the next 2 years.
7) AI-based solutions for agriculture in India
In October, the Government of Maharashtra announced the implementation of AI-based solutions for agriculture in India in order to reduce agricultural risks for farmers, under the Maha Agri-Tech project. The technology will be utilised to mitigate cultivation hazards which will occur from unreliable rains or pests and predict crop-wise and area-wise yield. There will be the use of satellite imaginary in agriculture which will help in accessing the crop area, crop condition and crop yield at district levels.
8) AIRAWAT
AIRAWAT or AI Research, Analytics and knoWledge Assimilation plaTform is a cloud computing platform for Big Data which has been announced by Niti Aayog last year. The platform will be focused on big data analytics and similar tasks and will support multi-tenant multi-user computing with resource partitioning, dynamic computing environment, and many more features.
9) AI For Improvement of Services in Rural Areas
A few months ago, the CSC e-Governance Services India Ltd (CSC SPV) announced the development and delivery of new digital services to around 900 million citizens living in rural areas in India by using artificial intelligence and data analytics across sectors such as finance, education, healthcare, among others.
10) Adoption of Privacy
In May 2019, the Joint Secretary at the Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) announced that the Govt of India working towards forming a body solely dedicated to the development of AI in the country. Privacy will be taken as a fundamental right and is said to be the first step to make the country ready to adopt AI.
11) Govt of India to Fund 100 Startups
Recently, the Central Government of India announced that it has planned to directly fund 100 startups in order to use natural language translation techniques in various languages. Besides this, the government will also use this platform for its own purposes such as translating videos of technical education lectures and other such.
12) Centre of Excellence
Earlier this year, the Government of India and Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi) joined hands for setting up a Centre of Excellence for Waste to Wealth Technologies in order to implement sustainable, scientific and technological solutions for waste management. Recently, the Information and Technology department of Karnataka announced that the department has joined hands with the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) for setting up a Centre of Excellence (CoE) for design.
13) Global Hackathon On Artificial Intelligence
Think Tank of India, NITI Aayog launched Global Hackathon on Artificial Intelligence during the ending of the year 2018. Although the announcement was made in Dec 2018, the hackathon was organised in the month of Jan and March 2019. NITI Aayog joined hands with Perlin, which is a Singapore-based AI startup in order to launch the ‘AI for All Global Hackathon’. The hackathon ran in two stages with stage one ending 15 January 2019 and stage two ended on 15 March 2019.
14) The Government of India is pushing investments through the following areas to establish an AI ecosystem.
- Digital India: Double allocation of INR 3,073 crore to further research in Robotics, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT), among others.
- National Program on AI: Set up by NITI Aayog at IIT Chennai. The research will focus to encourage Big Data, cybersecurity and Robotics are some of the initiatives that will help promote Industry 4.0.
These pieces of information might not make you clear about the specific profiles of the govt.jobs in ai. But these initiatives and schemes launched by the govt. will help you analyze the potential of the jobs which you should target and also the areas wherein you can focus your knowledge.
I want to know about the government jobs for the course of artificial intelligence and machine learning after MSc.
Ok, we will try and update that for you.