Comments on AI taking away jobs non-sense: MoS IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar

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Minister of state (MoS) for information technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar termed as "nonsense, bakwas" comments about artificial intelligence taking away jobs in India..

The minister of state for electronics, information and technology said Artificial Intelligence (AI) today is task-focused and essentially makes tasks more efficient, mimicking human behaviour...

AI will finish our jobs, zero, non-sense, bakwas," he said.. "Generative AI today is task-focused and essentially makes tasks more efficient, mimicking human behaviour..."..

He said the government was working with a data sets programme where government anonymised data would be made available to Indian artificial intelligence researchers and start-ups...

Today, we (India) are a trusted and significant player in electronics...," he said.. "In three-five years, we will have a fully competitive world-class semiconductor ecosystem in India," he added...

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