Google will work on expanding AI in India, it will bring a big change in agriculture by breaking the language barrier
Technology giant Google is focusing its attention on India with the launch of advanced AI instruments. A senior Google official said the company aims to break the language barrier and promote advanced agricultural practices. Abhishek Bapna, director of product management at Google DeepMind, highlighted the importance of reducing language barriers in India’s economic development. “Language is very important for economic growth. For example, language barrier should not be a hindrance for a person to explain his medical problems to a doctor or to access banking services,” Bapna said during his brief visit to the Indian Institute of Management-Kolkata (IIM-K).
Chatbot understands nine Indian languages
The technology giant has introduced Google Gemini (formerly Bard), an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot that understands more than 40 global languages, including nine Indian languages. Bapna said Google’s focus is on continuously improving the language quality and adding more Indian languages in the future. Currently, the chatbot is capable of working in nine Indian languages - Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu. Bapna pointed out the complexity of India’s multilingual environment, where people often use multiple languages simultaneously.
Will empower Indian developers
Bapna said this presents unique challenges for AI models, as they must correctly identify and apply the appropriate dictionaries to understand and generate accurate responses. To empower developers in India, Google is expanding Project Vaani in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Science (IISc). The project provides developers with over 14,000 hours of speech data in 58 languages collected from 80,000 speakers across 80 districts.
