Call it Indian IT 3.0. After Y2K and the BPO boom, Indian software engineers are making rapid inroads in acquiring Artificial Intelligence (AI) skills.
AI, considered the holy grail for nerds, is seeing increasing adoption and this is resulting in a huge requirement for techies who understand how to use this technology.
A report by Stanford titled AI Index 2019, points out some interesting trends. It states that the average penetration of AI skills in India in select sectors is 2.6 times the global average. Stanford, along with LinkedIn, analysed sectors such as software & IT, education, finance, manufacturing and hardware and networking.
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Apart from manufacturing, India topped in AI penetration in all the other sectors. Stanford analysed this information based on the logic that for a given country, the relative skill group penetration is the ratio between the penetration rate of a given skill group in each country and the global average penetration rate.
Source: The Hindu BusinessLine
