University of Agricultural Sciences Bengaluru to teach AI, ML in agricultural courses

Bengaluru: From this academic year, students at the University of Agricultural Sciences (UAS), Bengaluru, will study Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) as mandatory subjects in undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.

For this, UAS has signed an agreement with Samsung, which will teach AI and ML to students under its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative.

"AI and ML have been incorporated in most professional courses, including engineering and medicine. To teach them as part of agriculture programmes, we are setting up a department to frame a suitable curriculum,” said VS Suresh, Vice-Chancellor, UAS Bengaluru.

He cautioned that students without AI knowledge may lose out on jobs in the future. “In the first batch, around 300 students will be trained in an 80-hour programme. They will also receive hands-on training,” he said.

UAS has also tied up with some engineering colleges to provide faculty assistance, with lecturers from these institutions set to teach AI and ML to agriculture students.