AI powering next phase of digital infrastructure: Reliance Jio official
At the AI Impact Summit, the official said India stands nearly a decade ahead of many developed economies in building population-scale digital platforms
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The convergence of connectivity and compute will reshape how citizens, enterprises and governments interact in India, with artificial intelligence poised to amplify the country's already robust digital public infrastructure, a top executive at Reliance Jio said on Tuesday.
Speaking at the AI Impact Summit, Shyam Prabhakar Mardikar - CTO, Mobility, at Reliance Jio, said India stands nearly a decade ahead of many developed economies in building population-scale digital platforms from digital payments and online banking to Aadhaar-based identity systems and paperless air travel through Digi Yatra.
"India's digital infrastructure is already a humongous success story," Mardikar said at the five-day summit, which began on Monday.
"Now imagine putting intelligence on top of it, making it aware, inclusive and accessible to the last citizen in the last village," he added.
He said putting AI into existing nationwide digital rails could expand the government's reach and improve decision-making, public service delivery and citizen outcomes.
The combination of robust networks and scalable computing power would enable more responsive governance and targeted welfare, he added.
India's rapid adoption of digital payments, biometric identity and mobile broadband has laid the foundation for the next phase of growth, the CTO said, noting that the evolution of telecom networks from voice to messaging, data and video is entering a more intuitive era.
"We are talking about every decade, when we started with voice, moved to messaging, moved to data, to video. Now we are getting into a level which is so inclusive, which is so intuitive, that there is a human AI harmony in the next generations to come. But this is not only the networks that have come up with the AI now in the coming years. This is really, really coming away from basic compute to shared resources, now from recognition to intuitive," Mardikar said.
When connectivity and compute merge at scale, the real beneficiaries are all of us as citizens, as enterprises and as a nation, the CTO said.
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