Google Introduces AI-led collaborations in India, focus on agriculture, sustainability and health
Published On Oct 22, 2024 12:50 PM
Google announced new collaborations to boost India's healthcare, sustainability, and agriculture sectors with AI research and models.
Google has announced several new AI-powered collaborations to improve agriculture, sustainability, and healthcare in India.
The tech giant is working with both domestic and foreign groups to use AI-driven solutions in urban trash management, agricultural development, and diabetic retinopathy screening.
According to Google, these revelations were made at a roundtable in Bengaluru, which commemorated the fifth anniversary of Google's Research Lab there. This comes after the tenth Google for India event, which demonstrated how AI can help people, companies, and society.
To promote India's agriculture industry, the firm said that it will collaborate with partners to help expand diabetic retinopathy screening, improve India's circular economy, and make its Agricultural Landscape Understanding (ALU) Research API available to developers.
Health Care
Google claims to have granted licenses to healthcare providers and health-tech partners for their diabetic retinopathy AI model. It claims that over the next ten years, the action will enable about 6 million free AI-assisted diabetic retinopathy exams in underserved regions in Thailand and India.
By assisting doctors with early identification at scale, the concept seeks to address avoidable blindness among diabetic patients, hence promoting prompt medical care.
Sustainability
Partners in India will utilise Google's open-source machine-learning computer vision model to sort plastic garbage, enhance recycling, lessen the amount of recyclable waste that ends up in landfills, and support the circular economy in the nation.
The technology, which uses Google's TensorFlow open-source software library for machine learning and artificial intelligence, will be utilised for its material detection capabilities.
Google claims the technology operates by offering pixel-level instance segmentation that facilitates data-driven decision-making and a vision-based quality control system that verifies the quantity and quality of waste both before it is received at recycling facilities and after it has been sorted, baled, and sent there.
Agriculture
Additionally, Google is granting developers access to its Agricultural Landscape Understanding (ALU) Research API, which leverages AI and remote sensing to offer insights at the farm level throughout India. The technology determines the boundaries of fields, water bodies, and vegetation, as well as their area, by combining high-resolution satellite data with sophisticated machine learning models.
In addition to creating precision agriculture tools, optimising resource allocation, and enhancing farm management techniques, Google claims that these skills can help India's agricultural ecosystem make more data-driven and effective decisions.
In order to support India's circular economy, Google is now collaborating with Saahas Zero Waste and Forus Health and Auro Lab in the healthcare sector.