National Artificial Intelligence Resource
Portal (NAIRP) – IIT-KGP & Amazon Initiative
IIT-KGP, Amazon join
hands to develop AI portal
Kolkata: In a bid to
promote learning and development of Artificial Intelligence (AI), the Indian
Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur announced a collaboration with Amazon
Web Services (AWS)
to develop a National
Artificial Intelligence Resource Portal (NAIRP) platform, an official said.
"There is already
a great demand for professionals skilled in AI as well as resources, and this
need will only increase in our society. The development of this platform will
help boost the AI community in India," Sudeshna Sarkar, Head of Centre for
Artificial Intelligence at IIT Kharagpur, said.
NAIRP was launched
with initial funding from the Ministry of Human Resources Development, as part
of the National Digital Library of India (NDLI) platform. It builds upon and expands
NDLI to AI by indexing a wide variety of AI-specific resources such as learning
materials, courses, workbooks, datasets, codes, tools and platforms.The
upcoming portal will provide search, browse, learning and computation services.
Hands-on AI training
will be facilitated to all AI learners, practitioners, and researchers in India
through workbooks and the cloud. The system will start off using AWS Cloud, and
will also be connected in the future with the in-house cloud developed at IIT
Kharagpur.
"With more than
200 significant machine learning capabilities launched in the last two years,
AWS has the broadest and deepest set of machine learning and AI services
focused on solving some of the toughest challenges facing developers. We
welcome the opportunity to work with IIT Kharagpur on some of those
challenges," Bratin Saha,Vice President AWS Machine Learning &
Engines, said.
Source
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