<p>Bengaluru: Artificial Intelligence (AI) would not take away jobs but only fundamentally transform their nature, said panelists at the Invest Karnataka summit during a discussion on the technology that has sparked alarm and excitement over its potential.</p>.<p>During a discussion on ‘Reimagining Intelligence: Using Core AI for a Transformative Future’, Cabel Munigety, Head of Bosch India Enterprise, AI, spoke on the weighty matter by dipping into ace detective Sherlock Holmes. </p>.<p>“One night, while out camping, Sherlock Holmes wakes up Dr Watson and asks him what the sky tells him," began Munigety. "Watson says astronomically it tells him there are millions of galaxies, astrologically it tells him the Saturn is at Leo, horologically it tells him the time is quarter past three and theologically that God is all powerful and we are small."</p>.<p>"Holmes waits for a moment and says, “Watson, you idiot, someone has stolen our tent!”</p>.<p>Cabel pointed out that the knowledge of fundamentals was like the tent in the Holmes' anecdote.</p>.Arizona State University plans AI-enhanced 'agentic' university in India.<p>Another panelist Manish Gupta, senior director, Google DeepMind, said AI would "augment human capabilities instead of substituting them".</p>.<p>"AI won't replace a doctor but a doctor using AI will make a doctor not using AI very outdated," he quipped.</p>.<p>Avinash Joshi, chief executive, NIT Data Group Corporation, noted that the primary responsibility, if AI was to fail, would fall upon the business leadership.</p>.<p>“There’s a Japanese word 'sampo-yoshi': we look at everything we do from three lenses; it should be good for the seller, buyer and the society," he said, adding that the same thing should apply for AI, too.</p>.<p>Gupta said his team had studied biases in the non-western context where Large Language Model (LLM) might be encoding based on religious and caste prejudices, adding that Google’s AI principles had accepted that models do not perpetuate and reinforce biases.</p>.<p><strong>'Regulate AI only after it's abused'</strong></p>.<p>In a fireside chat on ‘Pioneering the AI frontier: From moonshots to real-world impact, Google X founder Sebastian Thrun spoke of the potential of the technology and tried to caution against regulation.</p>.<p>Claiming that AI would soon help in spotting lethal but non-symptomatic diseases that are currently proving to be fatal, Thrun argued that people were wrong to conclude that AI would "destroy humanity".</p>.<p>He asked regulators to first see the abuse first and then regulate.</p>.<p>Citing the analogy of using a kitchen knife for useful purposes was different from using it to stab someone, Thrun said even AI could be used for illegal things but also had immense opportunities. </p>
<p>Bengaluru: Artificial Intelligence (AI) would not take away jobs but only fundamentally transform their nature, said panelists at the Invest Karnataka summit during a discussion on the technology that has sparked alarm and excitement over its potential.</p>.<p>During a discussion on ‘Reimagining Intelligence: Using Core AI for a Transformative Future’, Cabel Munigety, Head of Bosch India Enterprise, AI, spoke on the weighty matter by dipping into ace detective Sherlock Holmes. </p>.<p>“One night, while out camping, Sherlock Holmes wakes up Dr Watson and asks him what the sky tells him," began Munigety. "Watson says astronomically it tells him there are millions of galaxies, astrologically it tells him the Saturn is at Leo, horologically it tells him the time is quarter past three and theologically that God is all powerful and we are small."</p>.<p>"Holmes waits for a moment and says, “Watson, you idiot, someone has stolen our tent!”</p>.<p>Cabel pointed out that the knowledge of fundamentals was like the tent in the Holmes' anecdote.</p>.Arizona State University plans AI-enhanced 'agentic' university in India.<p>Another panelist Manish Gupta, senior director, Google DeepMind, said AI would "augment human capabilities instead of substituting them".</p>.<p>"AI won't replace a doctor but a doctor using AI will make a doctor not using AI very outdated," he quipped.</p>.<p>Avinash Joshi, chief executive, NIT Data Group Corporation, noted that the primary responsibility, if AI was to fail, would fall upon the business leadership.</p>.<p>“There’s a Japanese word 'sampo-yoshi': we look at everything we do from three lenses; it should be good for the seller, buyer and the society," he said, adding that the same thing should apply for AI, too.</p>.<p>Gupta said his team had studied biases in the non-western context where Large Language Model (LLM) might be encoding based on religious and caste prejudices, adding that Google’s AI principles had accepted that models do not perpetuate and reinforce biases.</p>.<p><strong>'Regulate AI only after it's abused'</strong></p>.<p>In a fireside chat on ‘Pioneering the AI frontier: From moonshots to real-world impact, Google X founder Sebastian Thrun spoke of the potential of the technology and tried to caution against regulation.</p>.<p>Claiming that AI would soon help in spotting lethal but non-symptomatic diseases that are currently proving to be fatal, Thrun argued that people were wrong to conclude that AI would "destroy humanity".</p>.<p>He asked regulators to first see the abuse first and then regulate.</p>.<p>Citing the analogy of using a kitchen knife for useful purposes was different from using it to stab someone, Thrun said even AI could be used for illegal things but also had immense opportunities. </p>