Google AI Technologies: Google is focusing its attention on India with the launch of advanced AI tools. Abhishek Bapna, Product Management Director, Google DeepMind, highlighted the importance of reducing language barriers in India’s economic development.
Google AI Technologies: Technology company Google is focusing its attention on India with the launch of advanced AI tools. A senior Google official said that the company aims to break language barriers and promote advanced agricultural practices.
Abhishek Bapna, Product Management Director of 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).
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 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.
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.