good morning today I’m going to transfer
the transport you to a hundred to five
hundred kilometers away from Bhopal
where rural India exists and I’ll talk
to you about the potential of digital
technology and artificial intelligence
and what it could do to completely
transform the lives of these people and
bring the satisfaction that you get out
of doing so so what does this rural
India mean what does it say to you what
is the picture that can it can doors in
your head six hundred and forty thousand
villages and 800 million people that’s
larger than the population of most of
the nations and in the world so you know
the the question that comes to my mind
is what has this rural India got to do
with anything that is this geek world
called artificial intelligence what is
the eye what does that word mean we
learn technology but the beauty of AI is
that it learns us it observes us it
looks at the way we are answering
questions and then taking that data
point it then anticipates what our
answers will be in a certain situation
that’s AI simplistically speaking that
is AI so the question that comes is why
is it happening now why not 10 years
back why not 15 years back and the
reason why artificial intelligence time
is now is because of these three factors
coming together we’ve harvested data or
a period of time
lots of it tons of it but we couldn’t do
anything with it
the advent of cloud technologies with
its capacity to process millions of
computers you know coming together
synergist
quickly and being able to analyze that
data real-time and when you combine that
with powerful algorithms artificial
intelligence is born you’ll find people
driven to move the world forward people
finding inspiration where it’s least
expected people who lead with their
imagination but in an increasingly
complex world we face new challenges and
sometimes it feels like we’ve reached
now with the help of intelligent
technology we can achieve more we can
access information that empowers us in
new ways we can see things that we
didn’t see before and we can stay on top
of what matters most when we have the
right tools and AI extends our
capabilities we can tap into even
greater potential
[Music]
whether it’s a life-changing innovation
being the hero for the day making a
difference in someone’s future or
breaking down barriers to bring people
closer together intelligent technology
helps you to see more do more and be
more and when your ingenuity is
amplified you are unstoppable
amplifying human ingenuity imagine if
you could do that to 800 million people
India would fly on the wings of fire if
you could bring these 800 people to
reach their full potential and I’m not
kidding about it that’s the potential of
this country 800 million people and a
lot of them 50 percent of them are very
very young they could do amazing things
so let’s look at areas that are of
importance and what AI could there do
there the first that is closest to my
heart and it comes from you know
spending my childhood in in a small
village from which I which I heal that
that profession is that age-old
profession called agricultural in any
near time in foreseeable futures we’re
still not drinking hardware and
digesting software we are still down to
wheat and rice so agriculture even
though we don’t relate to it every day’s
the most important thing there farmer
does that your village Brethren’s do and
the potential to change that land space
landscape with newfound knowledge from
Mia is just amazing
think of all those sensors that could be
put on the ground so that the soil tells
you what it will grow best think of the
drones that you could put on those farms
right near the harvest and you will know
whether there is abundance of wheat and
what minimum support price you should
have all scarcity of rice and what you
need to import so that people get a good
diet then there is this challenge of
parasites
you know the blight the black Cotton’s
you know soil has the black cotton has a
blight if only you could take pictures
of these and stitch them together you
will know the early onset of parasites
that are plaguing these plants and take
action on it precision farming
serve areas in India that are not that
will water fed Bhopal is not one of them
but there are other areas that have
scarcity of water if you could precisely
provide water at the right time in the
right weeks you could still grow a great
harvest all that is possible through AI
now because of those three things that I
said big data huge amount of compute and
algorithms that will tell you what needs
to be done healthcare another very very
large area and we don’t have to go
through this traditional route where a
doctor needs to sit next to the patient
in order to give them advice
telemedicine a smart doctor a brilliant
doctor and there are not that many of
them sitting in some city fine providing
advice or telemedicine to a poor
villager in the confines of some
location where there might even not even
be a road to reach there telemedicine
tell you up to thalamic devices we have
tried that mobile pathology labs believe
it or not it’s possible to take all your
blood work and you reen work and
although all the other 36 tests that
will tell exactly what you’re you know
important parameters are and provide you
that information in five minutes
predictive analysis of diseases why is
it not possible for us to look at this
wonderful technology and look work
through the data from social networks
and ahead of time find out when the
dangu or chikungunya or malaria is about
to spread its wing and cut it right
there right in the beginning not allow
it to spread all that is today possible
because of the power of this technology
another very interesting problem that
plagues rural India left right and
center you know you go there and you see
the kind of water that people are
drinking and you think to yourself what
good is technology if it cannot help
these people and it can as looking at
someplace
well water is really bad and this is
what is your life you don’t drink it you
dehydrate and you die what if IOT based
systems could be installed on these
pumps so that you know exactly what type
of water you’re about to drink and take
corrective action clean it up
simple things that could change the way
we live in rural India education this is
my favorite one there is no dearth of
smarts in the village the gray matter in
their heads is just as good as that in
in the city boys
what if artificial augmented reality
virtual reality based teaching could be
introduced to them it’s a fact that when
you supplement your senses with is
seeing hearing and touching the
experience that it leaves in your mind
is far stronger then by learning by rote
which is a traditional way take a book
read it learn it and then regurgitate it
in an exam
what if AR and VR could allow you to
touch and feel the things and learn it
that way again it is possible and on the
other side there are the teachers how do
you know what student needs what health
predictive modeling for finding out rom
has 99 percent probability of passing
and Shawn is in trouble
educationally if you could do that you
would intervene ahead of time a year in
advance and as a result of it Shawn even
though he was in trouble a year back by
the time he comes to that you know final
point he’s ready this is happening today
better teaching and learning solutions
so let me give you just one simple
example from Tacoma public schools they
had this problem of fewer graduations at
the time and what they did was they
started rigorously looking at all these
data put a machine learning AI base
model and predict which
needed what help at what point of time
and the results are right there their
graduation rate improved from 55% to or
82% so let me show you what I mean by
this augmented reality systems and what
this assisted learning could be like let
me take you to this world of hololens
and let you imagine if the students had
access to this in a in a surrounding in
which they could interact with the
things that they want to learn rather
than learn it from a book how much
higher will be their learning if we
could go beyond the screen where your
digital world is blended with your real
world now we can this is the world with
what will they enable us to do new ways
to visualize our work we have an idea
for the fuel tank new ways to share
ideas with each other how things don’t
you rent I just put the images in
new ways to teach and learn so put the
new trap into place of the old one yeah
and tighten here and here new ways to
collaborate and explore the places we’ve
never been look at this formation let’s
take a closer look
[Music]
and new ways to create the things we
imagine
[Music]
because when you change the way you see
the world you can change the world you
see so there you have it yeah I can take
you where no man or woman has gone
before this famous tagline from Star
Trek that I remember from my childhood
so with that let me just take you to a
real village this village before we got
started there was best known for as the
malnutrition capital of India with
infant mortality that was in thirties it
was just terrible you know and the first
time we went there we could not even get
a phone call not even phone connectivity
and here are these mad people who are
thinking they will bring high-speed
Internet and we did we used this new
technology for TV white spaces we were
able to bring high-speed Internet in
less than eight days to this remote
village and the first experience that
this the people in this village had of
connecting to the rest of the world was
whatsapp and Skype they learned it they
learnt it they learned it before the
phone so that’s the adaptability of this
group once the internet was established
we started doing all manner of things we
had mobile pathology lab set up we had a
telemedicine Center set up we had
eLearning small children understanding
how to surf the Internet we had a PDS
system we had a banking and we had he
governance and a whole bunch of other
things today hurry Sal if you will
search on the net will share its own
stories not everything is done it
couldn’t be
but as amazing you know beginning has
been made and more specifically what we
have learned from there could be
replicated in the rest of those six
hundred forty thousand villages thank
you [Music]
the transport you to a hundred to five
hundred kilometers away from Bhopal
where rural India exists and I’ll talk
to you about the potential of digital
technology and artificial intelligence
and what it could do to completely
transform the lives of these people and
bring the satisfaction that you get out
of doing so so what does this rural
India mean what does it say to you what
is the picture that can it can doors in
your head six hundred and forty thousand
villages and 800 million people that’s
larger than the population of most of
the nations and in the world so you know
the the question that comes to my mind
is what has this rural India got to do
with anything that is this geek world
called artificial intelligence what is
the eye what does that word mean we
learn technology but the beauty of AI is
that it learns us it observes us it
looks at the way we are answering
questions and then taking that data
point it then anticipates what our
answers will be in a certain situation
that’s AI simplistically speaking that
is AI so the question that comes is why
is it happening now why not 10 years
back why not 15 years back and the
reason why artificial intelligence time
is now is because of these three factors
coming together we’ve harvested data or
a period of time
lots of it tons of it but we couldn’t do
anything with it
the advent of cloud technologies with
its capacity to process millions of
computers you know coming together
synergist
quickly and being able to analyze that
data real-time and when you combine that
with powerful algorithms artificial
intelligence is born you’ll find people
driven to move the world forward people
finding inspiration where it’s least
expected people who lead with their
imagination but in an increasingly
complex world we face new challenges and
sometimes it feels like we’ve reached
now with the help of intelligent
technology we can achieve more we can
access information that empowers us in
new ways we can see things that we
didn’t see before and we can stay on top
of what matters most when we have the
right tools and AI extends our
capabilities we can tap into even
greater potential
[Music]
whether it’s a life-changing innovation
being the hero for the day making a
difference in someone’s future or
breaking down barriers to bring people
closer together intelligent technology
helps you to see more do more and be
more and when your ingenuity is
amplified you are unstoppable
amplifying human ingenuity imagine if
you could do that to 800 million people
India would fly on the wings of fire if
you could bring these 800 people to
reach their full potential and I’m not
kidding about it that’s the potential of
this country 800 million people and a
lot of them 50 percent of them are very
very young they could do amazing things
so let’s look at areas that are of
importance and what AI could there do
there the first that is closest to my
heart and it comes from you know
spending my childhood in in a small
village from which I which I heal that
that profession is that age-old
profession called agricultural in any
near time in foreseeable futures we’re
still not drinking hardware and
digesting software we are still down to
wheat and rice so agriculture even
though we don’t relate to it every day’s
the most important thing there farmer
does that your village Brethren’s do and
the potential to change that land space
landscape with newfound knowledge from
Mia is just amazing
think of all those sensors that could be
put on the ground so that the soil tells
you what it will grow best think of the
drones that you could put on those farms
right near the harvest and you will know
whether there is abundance of wheat and
what minimum support price you should
have all scarcity of rice and what you
need to import so that people get a good
diet then there is this challenge of
parasites
you know the blight the black Cotton’s
you know soil has the black cotton has a
blight if only you could take pictures
of these and stitch them together you
will know the early onset of parasites
that are plaguing these plants and take
action on it precision farming
serve areas in India that are not that
will water fed Bhopal is not one of them
but there are other areas that have
scarcity of water if you could precisely
provide water at the right time in the
right weeks you could still grow a great
harvest all that is possible through AI
now because of those three things that I
said big data huge amount of compute and
algorithms that will tell you what needs
to be done healthcare another very very
large area and we don’t have to go
through this traditional route where a
doctor needs to sit next to the patient
in order to give them advice
telemedicine a smart doctor a brilliant
doctor and there are not that many of
them sitting in some city fine providing
advice or telemedicine to a poor
villager in the confines of some
location where there might even not even
be a road to reach there telemedicine
tell you up to thalamic devices we have
tried that mobile pathology labs believe
it or not it’s possible to take all your
blood work and you reen work and
although all the other 36 tests that
will tell exactly what you’re you know
important parameters are and provide you
that information in five minutes
predictive analysis of diseases why is
it not possible for us to look at this
wonderful technology and look work
through the data from social networks
and ahead of time find out when the
dangu or chikungunya or malaria is about
to spread its wing and cut it right
there right in the beginning not allow
it to spread all that is today possible
because of the power of this technology
another very interesting problem that
plagues rural India left right and
center you know you go there and you see
the kind of water that people are
drinking and you think to yourself what
good is technology if it cannot help
these people and it can as looking at
someplace
well water is really bad and this is
what is your life you don’t drink it you
dehydrate and you die what if IOT based
systems could be installed on these
pumps so that you know exactly what type
of water you’re about to drink and take
corrective action clean it up
simple things that could change the way
we live in rural India education this is
my favorite one there is no dearth of
smarts in the village the gray matter in
their heads is just as good as that in
in the city boys
what if artificial augmented reality
virtual reality based teaching could be
introduced to them it’s a fact that when
you supplement your senses with is
seeing hearing and touching the
experience that it leaves in your mind
is far stronger then by learning by rote
which is a traditional way take a book
read it learn it and then regurgitate it
in an exam
what if AR and VR could allow you to
touch and feel the things and learn it
that way again it is possible and on the
other side there are the teachers how do
you know what student needs what health
predictive modeling for finding out rom
has 99 percent probability of passing
and Shawn is in trouble
educationally if you could do that you
would intervene ahead of time a year in
advance and as a result of it Shawn even
though he was in trouble a year back by
the time he comes to that you know final
point he’s ready this is happening today
better teaching and learning solutions
so let me give you just one simple
example from Tacoma public schools they
had this problem of fewer graduations at
the time and what they did was they
started rigorously looking at all these
data put a machine learning AI base
model and predict which
needed what help at what point of time
and the results are right there their
graduation rate improved from 55% to or
82% so let me show you what I mean by
this augmented reality systems and what
this assisted learning could be like let
me take you to this world of hololens
and let you imagine if the students had
access to this in a in a surrounding in
which they could interact with the
things that they want to learn rather
than learn it from a book how much
higher will be their learning if we
could go beyond the screen where your
digital world is blended with your real
world now we can this is the world with
what will they enable us to do new ways
to visualize our work we have an idea
for the fuel tank new ways to share
ideas with each other how things don’t
you rent I just put the images in
new ways to teach and learn so put the
new trap into place of the old one yeah
and tighten here and here new ways to
collaborate and explore the places we’ve
never been look at this formation let’s
take a closer look
[Music]
and new ways to create the things we
imagine
[Music]
because when you change the way you see
the world you can change the world you
see so there you have it yeah I can take
you where no man or woman has gone
before this famous tagline from Star
Trek that I remember from my childhood
so with that let me just take you to a
real village this village before we got
started there was best known for as the
malnutrition capital of India with
infant mortality that was in thirties it
was just terrible you know and the first
time we went there we could not even get
a phone call not even phone connectivity
and here are these mad people who are
thinking they will bring high-speed
Internet and we did we used this new
technology for TV white spaces we were
able to bring high-speed Internet in
less than eight days to this remote
village and the first experience that
this the people in this village had of
connecting to the rest of the world was
whatsapp and Skype they learned it they
learnt it they learned it before the
phone so that’s the adaptability of this
group once the internet was established
we started doing all manner of things we
had mobile pathology lab set up we had a
telemedicine Center set up we had
eLearning small children understanding
how to surf the Internet we had a PDS
system we had a banking and we had he
governance and a whole bunch of other
things today hurry Sal if you will
search on the net will share its own
stories not everything is done it
couldn’t be
but as amazing you know beginning has
been made and more specifically what we
have learned from there could be
replicated in the rest of those six
hundred forty thousand villages thank
you [Music]
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