Artificial intelligence is one of the most powerful technologies for reshaping business. It has the ability to optimize many processes throughout organizations and is already the engine behind some of the world’s most valuable platform businesses. AI is helping foster innovation, creating new breed of startup companies and exploiting the power of human and machines in an extra ordinary ways that we have not seen before. This is why we at BEA, have setup a center of excellence to spread AI skills in Bihar.
Our vision for AI
Our vision for AI is to build foundational skills in BEA core group and train students and entrepreneurs in Bihar. We also aim to provide summer internships and boot campos to entreprenuers in Bihar who can then leverage power of AI in their existing business model or start a brand new initiative.
Build a team of AI champions
AI CoE will work best if it cultivates a network of influential supporters and champions for the technology across the group. In the 2018 Deloitte survey, 45% of companies had appointed senior executives across the company as AI champions. Given the commodification of programming (with readily available scripts in languages like R- and Python), the focus for in-house capability building should be on statistical and mathematical modeling, rather than pure programming.
Identify business driven AI use case relevant to Bihar
CoE team will prioritize list of applications or use cases suitable for Bihar. We will balance strategic value with what is achievable. We will develop some of these use cases as pilots or prototypes, but we will also have a “pipeline” — regularly monitored by the AI CoE at Silicon Valley USA.
Collaborate with local universities and institutions
AI CoE will orchestrate relationships with universities, start-ups, and other sources of expertise and innovation. We will develop an AI ecosystem, and even invest in firms that show promise of creating business.
Share success stories
A key success factor with AI or any new technology is to spread early success stories with prioritized use cases. This will build the appetite for more AI activity; in effect such communications perform a marketing function for the AI CoE.
