The Madras Professor Mitesh Khapra can be seen in the list of 100 most influential people in AI from Time Magazine. Khapra has greatly honored the magazine by acknowledging his work and to say that his research for an important contribution to AI.
IIT MADRAS Professor Mitesh Kapra honored by Time Magazine
At the game in Global Thagesines, synonymous with prestige and status is a sign of success and is mentioned in addition to the most powerful names such as Sam Altman from OpenAi, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, and Elon Musk makes this success even more special. IIT Madras Professor Mitesh Khapra can be seen in the list of 100 most influential people in AI from Time Magazine. The magazine has greatly honored Khapra by acknowledging his work and to say that his research “reforms the academic research of his country” in AI.
Why is Mitesh Khapra honored by Time Magazine?
Khapra is an associate professor of IIT Madras at the Computer Science and Engineering department. He is not a founder of an AI company, but his works and research are of enormous importance in the AI world, because they influence and influence the life of Iitians who strive to innovate in the field of AI or those who work in the best AI companies in the world.
Mitesh’s work was aimed at making AI accessible in Indian languages, because advanced technology is usually limited to the English language. To achieve this, Khapra is co-founder of AI4Bharat, a research laboratory at Iit Madras that works to build open-source tools and data sets to infuse Indian languages in AI. The AI4bharat initiative is aimed at promoting AI technology for Indian languages via open-source media.
How does AI4Bharat work?
The project collected speech data from different districts throughout India and collected sources with which AI systems can function much more easily in local languages. This effort drastically reduces the dependence on English-oriented AI models. AI4Bharat has created enormous opportunities for students and researchers who want to or work on tackling problems specific to India via AI.
Mitesh Khapra founded AI4Bharat in 2019, which also contributed to the Bhashini mission of the government, whose goal is to make digital services available in Indian languages using AI. According to Khapra, even if worldwide technology companies work together with these data sets to enable their models to work in Indian languages such as Hindi or Marathi, the effort would also benefit the country.
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