India is at the cusp of AI innovation: Infosys chairman Nandan Nilekani

Says govt's focus on setting up transaction systems over past few years has created huge data sets across systems

Non-executive Chairman of Infosys and Aadhaar architect Nandan Nilekani said that India is at the cusp of some major AI (artificial intelligence) innovation. Nilekani was talking at the fireside chat organised to celebrate the one-year anniversary of INDIAai--the national AI portal set up Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), National E-Governance Division, and Nasscom.

Nilekani said that the by-product of government's focus on setting up transaction systems over the past few years has been huge data sets across systems.

"The time is right to apply AI across the board to India's most challenging issues across areas like healthcare and