NEW YORK: Several Indians and Indian-origin techies have made it to Time magazine’s inaugural ‘TIME100 AI List’, highlighting the 100 most influential people in artificial intelligence (AI).
The youngest individual recognised in the list is 18-year-old Indian-American Sneha Revanur, who recently met with the Joe Biden Administration as part of her work leading Encode Justice, a youth-led movement organizing for ethical AI. Revanur is often called the "Greta Thunberg of AI”.
Neal Khosla, who co-founded telehealth startup Curai Health in 2017, is also on the list. Romesh and Sunil Wadhwani, Co-Founders of Wadhwani AI, have also been named on the list. Mumbai-based Wadhwani AI is a non-profit organization with a mission to develop and deploy AI solutions for social good, including health care, education and agriculture. Tushita Gupta is the Chief Technology Officer of Refiberd, a US-based company. The aim is to revolutionize textile recycling by using AI to identify the composition of various textile items.
Another Indian on the coveted list is Kalika Bali, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research India. She has spent several years dedicated to breaking language barriers in technology. The 2023 TIME100 AI issue features a worldwide cover with illustrations by Neil Jamieson for TIME, featuring 28 list-makers including Sam Altman of OpenAI, Dario and Daniela Amodei of Anthropic, Demis Hassabis of Google DeepMind, and more from the new list.IANS
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