CEO of Google and Alphabet, Sundar Pichai, highlight investments in AI that the company share at Google for India event to make India’s digital economy more inclusive, helpful, and safe by introducing a multimodal AI model that covers 100+ Indian languages, ML-power bilingual search results pages which is launching in India first, support for a new centre for responsible AI at IIT Madras.
Speaking at the 8th edition of the Google for India event, with Ashwini Vaishnaw, minister for Railways, Communications and Electronics & Information Technology in attendance, Sundar Pichai said :
Google CEO said he is here to see progress being made from our $10 billion (approx. Rs. 83,000 crore), 10-year India Digitization Fund (IDF), and share new ways helping to advance India’s digital future.
Sundar Pichai Said :
Project Relate is an app that can understand people with non-binary speech. It can listen, repeat, and understand, and the app is available for Hindi users in early 2023.
Speaking about YouTube India which contributed Rs. 10,000 crores to GDP by creating over 7,50,000 full-time jobs, Sundar Pichai said :
The Google CEO further said that Google Pay will show more security alerts and warnings now for suspicious transactions.
Google Pay also gets transaction search via voice feature.
Desirable friction is a feature that will help Google Pay determine if the transaction is genuine or fake.
It uses an ML algorithm and flashes a warning in the regional language.
Sundar Pichai also highlight integration with DigiLocker for government identity documents using AI to identify and recognise important documents on the Google Files app.
Sundar Pichai Said :
Ashwini Vaishnaw said Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision is that a digitally empower society must have a comprehensive legal framework.