Paradigm Shift Microsoft India

The world of AI is replete with innovation. But perhaps it is time to talk about that innovation. How can we innovate and be responsible at the same time? How can industry leaders in AI empower others through their innovations? How can we employ AI for public good and welfare?

Credits:

Narration: Harsha Bhogle
Executive Producer: Gaurav Vaz
Producer: Archana Nathan
Research, Interviews and Script: Vinay Aravind
Narrative overview: Charu Sharma and Shriram Parthasarathy
Title track, sound design and background score: Nikhil Rao, Avyay Gujral and Abhijit Nath.

All clips and voices used in this podcast are owned by the original creators

We thank wholeheartedly all our guests who appeared on this episode


Jean Philippe Courtois - Executive Vice President and President, National Transformation Partnerships at Microsoft
Sriram Rajamani - Distinguished Scientist and Managing Director at Microsoft Research India
Girish Nayak - Chief, Customer Service, Operations and Technology at ICICI Lombard
Ganesh Shankar -  Founder and CEO, FluxGen

Links to clips used in the episode and citations:


History of the Electric Power Industry - History of the Electric Power Industry (archive.org)
History of the World Wide Web - History of the Web – World Wide Web Foundation
Share of IT in India’s GDP - India: IT-BPM industry share in GDP 2021 | Statista
Microsoft’s Responsible AI Principles - Our approach to responsible AI at Microsoft
About ICICI Lombard’s use of AI - ICICI Lombard bets big on AI to improve customer experience - Express Computer
About HAMS by Microsoft - HAMS: Harnessing AutoMobiles for Safety - Microsoft Research
About FluxGen’s AI based water monitoring system - Solution – FluxGen

To learn how Microsoft is working to empower every developer to innovate, every organization to transform industries and every individual to transform society through its differentiated Microsoft AI & Innovation vision, please visit microsoft.com/ai

With its vastly rich history and culture, India is a heritage-lover’s paradise. But there’s a problem. A large number of monuments, museums and art is either badly maintained or looks unsalvageable. Solutions from the world of AI, however, argue that things need not be the way they are right now. AI can be used to travel in time to see how the object was originally and attempt to restore it to a large extent.

Credits:

Narration: Harsha Bhogle

Executive Producer: Gaurav Vaz

Producer: Archana Nathan

Research, Interviews and Scripts: Prthvir Solanki

Narrative overview: Charu Sharma and Shriram Parthasarathy

Title track, sound design and background score: Nikhil Rao, Avyay Gujral and Abhijit Nath.

All clips and voices used in this podcast are owned by the original creators

We thank wholeheartedly all our guests who appeared on this episode


Benoy K. Behl, art historian, filmmaker and photographer
Ashwin Srivastava, CEO of Sapio Analytics
Professor Ronojoy Adhikari, Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics at University of Cambridge
Fabin Rasheed, Creator of Auria Kathi
Sahej Rahal, Digital Artist

Links to clips used in the episode and citations:


The Arctic World Archives website: https://arcticworldarchive.org/
Mann Ki Baat Episode where Narendra Modi mentions the Sapio Analytics Project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7gEx18Zw98
Explore the ancient city of Olympia through Microsoft’s project: https://inculture.microsoft.com/arts/ancient-olympia-common-grounds/
A short article about the AI painting sold at Christie’s: https://www.christies.com/features/a-collaboration-between-two-artists-one-human-one-a-machine-9332-1.aspx
Auria Kathi’s Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/p/B6vR2kaFXSd/

To learn how Microsoft is working to empower every developer to innovate, every organization to transform industries and every individual to transform society through its differentiated Microsoft AI & Innovation vision, please visit microsoft.com/ai

AI may not be able to cure diseases, well, at least not yet. But it could help identify a problem well in advance and much before it becomes too late. How? By helping doctors, hospitals, trawl through massive data and images and thereby efficiently screening patients that need immediate care. In other words, AI can make diagnosis faster and in healthcare, time is hope and hope is everything.

Credits:

Narration: Harsha Bhogle
Executive Producer: Gaurav Vaz
Producer: Archana Nathan
Research, Interviews and Script: Vinay Aravind
Narrative overview: Charu Sharma and Shriram Parthasarathy
Title track, sound design and background score: Nikhil Rao, Avyay Gujral & Abhijit Nath.

All clips and voices used in this podcast are owned by the original creators

We thank wholeheartedly all our guests who appeared on this episode


Gabriel Vaz, a retired journalist based in Bangalore
Prashant Gupta, program director for Microsoft Cloud
Dr. Sujoy Kar, the Chief Medical Information Officer of the Apollo Hospitals group
K Chandrasekhar, Founder and CEO of Forus Health
Subadra Kalyanaraman, Manager with a consulting firm based in Chennai

Links to clips used in the episode and citations:


Cardiovascular disease in India: A 360 degree overview - PMC (nih.gov)
General cardiovascular risk profile for use in primary care: the Framingham Heart Study
Apollo Hospitals has launched an Artificial Intelligence tool to predict the risk of cardiovascular disease
3nethra classic | Forus Health
e-Eye Kendram | Tele-Ophthalmology centres | Apollo Tele Health
Microsoft uses AI to diagnose cervical cancer faster in India
Quest Global Enhances its Lung Nodule Detection Solution Using Microsoft Azure IoT Central, Azure IoT Edge and Azure Machine Learning

To learn how Microsoft is working to empower every developer to innovate, every organization to transform industries and every individual to transform society through its differentiated Microsoft AI & Innovation vision, please visit microsoft.com/ai

Over the years, the protection of India’s biodiversity and the conservation of nature has been hit by a severe lack of funding and personnel, not to mention the sheer scale of the challenges they have to encounter - from man-made threats to climate change. There is a promise that artificial intelligence and machine learning offers though and this includes scanning our surroundings to identify the species that need to be protected and setting up social networks but for birds.

Credits:

Narration: Harsha Bhogle
Executive Producer: Gaurav Vaz
Producer: Archana Nathan
Research, Interviews and Script: Vinay Aravind
Narrative overview: Charu Sharma and Shriram Parthasarathy
Title track, sound design and background score: Nikhil Rao, Avyay Gujral and Abhijit Nath.

All clips and voices used in this podcast are owned by the original creators

We thank wholeheartedly all our guests who appeared on this episode


Ashwin Viswanathan, a research associate at the Nature Conservation Foundation
Tom Auer, a GIS Developer at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Drew Weber, the Merlin Project Co-ordinator at the Cornell Lab
Jason Holmberg, the founder of WildMe

Links to clips used in the episode and citations:


India’s species diversity - India Biodiversity Awards, 2018 | UNDP in India
India’s threatened species - India has lost 90 per cent of the area under its biodiversity hotspots, says CSE’s new statistical analysis (cseindia.org)
The ebird project - About eBird - eBird
Merlin - The Story – Merlin Bird ID – Free, instant bird identification help and guide for thousands of birds (allaboutbirds.org)
WildMe - What we do | Wild Me
Microsoft’s Azure Virtual Machines - Virtual Machines (VMs) for Linux and Windows | Microsoft Azure
ATREE’s biodiversity Atlas project - ATREE_India_Bio_AI4E Grantee Profile.pdf (windows.net)

To learn how Microsoft is working to empower every developer to innovate, every organization to transform industries and every individual to transform society through its differentiated Microsoft AI & Innovation vision, please visit microsoft.com/ai

Agriculture is complicated. The landscape is changing, there’s climate change and there are a million other factors that affect the farmer’s yield. But it’s what our entire population’s hunger and health depends on. Recent initiatives in AI are finding ways to get the crop to talk to the farmer about what it needs.

Credits:

Narration: Harsha Bhogle

Executive Producer: Gaurav Vaz

Producer: Archana Nathan

Research, Interviews and Scripts: Prthvir Solanki

Narrative overview: Charu Sharma & Shriram Parthasarathy

Title track, sound design and background score: Nikhil Rao, Abhijit Nath & Avyay Gujral

All clips and voices used in this podcast are owned by the original creators

We thank wholeheartedly all our guests who appeared on this episode


Ananda Verma, Co-founder at Fasal
Ranveer Chandra, Managing Director, Research for Industry and CTO, Agri-Food at Microsoft Research
Vikram Kumar, Associate Director at Wadhwani AI
Jibu Elias, AI Ethicist, Senior Researcher and Lead at INDIAai
Ram Dhulipala, Senior Scientist at the International Livestock Research Institute and Former Scientist at International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics

Links to clips used in the episode and citations:


Fasal Website and information about their IoT device
FarmBeats
News Reports on Locust Attacks in India
Brittanica Entry on the Pink Bollworm
Punjab Records 34% Cotton Crop Loss After Pink Bollworm Attack

To learn how Microsoft is working to empower every developer to innovate, every organization to transform industries and every individual to transform society through its differentiated Microsoft AI & Innovation vision, please visit https://microsoft.com/ai

In competitive sport, today, players don’t have the luxury of time to fix a problem in their technique or a strategic flaw in their approach. Time is of the essence here and AI is trying its best to conserve time. Both with its innate technology to predict and identify the problem and by becoming a tool that can help improve a player’s game.

Credits:

Narration: Harsha Bhogle
Executive Producer: Gaurav Vaz
Producer: Archana Nathan
Research, Interviews and Scripts: Prthvir Solanki
Narrative overview: Charu Sharma and Shriram Parthasarathy
Title track, sound design and background score: Nikhil Rao and Abhijit Nath.

All clips and voices used in this podcast are owned by the original creators

We thank wholeheartedly all our guests who appeared on this episode


Abhishek Binaykia, the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Product Officer at SpektaCom
Dr. Siddhartha Sen, a Principal Researcher in the Microsoft Research New York City lab
Kruttika Nadig, a Woman GrandMaster in the game of chess
Ashok Karanth is the Co-Founder and CEO of Edisn
Siddhartha Sen, Principal Researcher in the Microsoft Research New York City lab.

Links to clips used in the episode and citations:


Highlights of the Tendulkar inning
Interview with Tendulkar about the inning
Deep Blue vs Garry Kasparov
Cricket and AI (use in DRS and ball-tracking tech) 
Project Maia