Bill Gates’ Microsoft aims to equip two million people in India with AI skills by 2025

02/12/2024 / By Arsenio Toledo

Tech billionaire and globalist Bill Gates’ Microsoft has announced plans to recruit up to two million workers from India who will be trained to use artificial intelligence.

According to Microsoft Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella, the company will equip two million Indians with AI skills by 2025 in an effort to generate more jobs in the nation of nearly 1.5 billion. (Related: Technocrats Gates and Altman admit current AI is the stupidest version of AGI but believe it can eventually “overcome polarization” – or in reality – censor views.)

“We are devoted to equip two million-plus people in India with AI skills, that is, really taking the workforce and making sure that they have the right skills in order to be able to be a part of this domain,” said Nadella on Wednesday, Feb. 7, during a Microsoft CEO Connection event in Mumbai. “But it’s not just the skills, it’s even the jobs that they create.”

The skilling program will focus on training individuals in Tier-2 and Tier-3 cities – cities with 50,000 to 99,999 residents and 20,000 to 49,999 residents, respectively – as well as rural areas with below 20,000 residents in an effort to “unlock inclusive socio-economic progress,” according to the company in a statement.

“I hope consensus emerges and that is what really helps, in some sense, [with] the diffusion of this technology,” said Nadella.

AI proliferation to expand Indian GDP by $500 billion

Referring to data from the Indian Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Nadella noted that the country is hoping to have around $500 billion of its expected $5 trillion gross domestic product in 2025 to be driven by artificial intelligence.

“With AI, now we have a new capability of making sense of digitalization … a new reasoning engine, which is the neural reasoning engine, which we can apply to an increasingly digitized world,” said Nadella. “So, these two things, a new user experience and a new reasoning engine pretty much completely revolutionized the entire tech stack, and this ultimately, is going to have an impact on GDP.”

Speaking of some examples of how AI proliferation is providing Indians with jobs, Nadella cited the work done by Karya, an AI startup that has employed more than 30,000 mostly rural Indians to create quality datasets through speech, text, images and videos for training large language models in 12 of India’s most used languages.

Nadella also mentioned Jugalbandhi, a GenAI chatbot created to assist individuals with accessing government assistance and how the incorporation of the Bhashini language translation tool into Jugalbandhi would help transform the lives of people in rural India.

Microsoft India and South Asia President Puneet Chandok noted that India is a country with over 100,000 startups, and where 100 new startups are coming up every day. In this nation of nearly 1.5 billion, the potential for AI innovation and adoption is immense.

Nadella noted that many large Indian corporations and organizations are already early adopters of AI technologies, such as private sector bank and financial services company Axis Bank, multinational information technology consulting company HCLTech and international IT services company LTIMindtree.

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