Call to expand AI research by IIT

IIT Kharagpur should do a lot more research in artificial intelligence (AI) and approach Google CEO Sundar Pichai to fund study in the cutting-age field, said India-born American businessman Vinod Gupta.

Gupta, like Pichai, is an alumnus of the Kharagpur tech school.

“I think they could do more there (artificial intelligence). My suggestion to PPC (Partha Pratim Chakrabarti, the IIT Kharagpur director) was that we need a world-class artificial intelligence research centre there and may be we could get 25, 30, 40, 50 million dollars for this project,” Gupta told Metro in Calcutta on Sunday evening.

“Some of the universities (in other countries) are investing 100, 500 million dollars in artificial intelligence. IIT can do very well in that with their research, students. They can do a lot more. The future is into AI.”