ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI)

About:

• Research agency Itihaasa has been founded by Kris Gopalakrishnan, former CEO and co-founder of Infosys. 
  
  
• The agency computed the number of research publications in peer-reviewed journals in the field of AI between 2013-2017 as listed out by Scimago, a compendium that tracks trends in scientific research publications. 
  
  
• Its key findings are:
  • In terms of high-quality research publications in AI, India, with 12,135 documents, ranks third in the world behind China (with 37, 918 documents) and the United States (with 32,421 documents). 
    
    
  • However, in terms of the number of times an article is referenced, India ranked only fifth and trailed the United Kingdom, Canada, the U.S. and China. This suggests that India needs to work at improving the quality of its research output in AI. 
    
    
  • The Indian Institutes of Technology and the Indian Institutes of Information Technology were among the key centres for AI research.