hyderabad sources reported that Jayesh Ranjan, principal secretary, IT and Industries said Telangana government has decided to declare 2020 as Artificial Intelligence year by organizing various activities related to the emerging technology, and the year 2020 is going to be celebrated in Telangana as AI year.
Furthermore throughout the year, we will be running multiple programs and activities and a lot of hackathons and meetings will happen and the government agencies will give challenges and make available data sets on which you (companies) can run algorithms," he said speaking at a program. Reportedly Ranjan said the state government has signed up with NITI Aayog, which has come out with the 'National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence' to run pilot projects in Telangana.
Moreover he said IT industry body NASSCOM is setting up a Centre of Excellence in Data Sciences and AI here, which is expected to start its activities in 2020. Perhaps he also said that the IIT, Khargapur, which is coming up with its regional centre here, would take up the first program in AI.
