AI will kill jobs in India, Are government policies a viable solution?

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AI will kill jobs in India, Are government policies a viable solution?The pronouncement by consulting giant Capgemini to replace almost 40% of its work done by its resource administration group with IBM's cognitive computing system, Watson, is an unmistakable sign that it is not simply dull or mechanical jobs that are at danger. Artificial intelligence (AI) is equipped for going up against those assignments that require analytical skills. The undertakings from education and ability advancement just got harder.
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By 2025, 70% of India's population is anticipated to be of working age. A lump of India's available learning economy would have been eaten around AI. As the information economy develops India's capacity to keep playing a major part in that relies on upon quickly raising the quality of education.

It is insufficient to have engineers who can compose code, we require a great many PhDs in building and maths and science, fit for basic thought. The education and vocational preparing system needs to take the genuine limits of artificial intelligence into thought in redesigning their course.

The government is in the process of finalising a education policy, one that will address the requirements of the 21st century. This policy needs to concentrate on upgrading cognitive skills, critical thinking and innovation. A robust foundation will require concentrating on early childhood care and education to augment cognitive skills of youngsters.

It will likewise require outlining school educational programs and showing hones in a way that will empower analytical skills and thinking. Innovation and research work must develop as the foundation of the advanced education system.

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Vocational educational, aptitude improvement and retraining — all need a radical transformation. The three Rs — reading, writing, arithmetic — must keep on forming the centre of education. The kids who expert them should likewise figure out how to question and condemn, to think once more and shift paradigms. They can grow up to amplify AI, instead succumb to its developing force.