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IIT Hyderabad First in India to launch Bachelor course in Artificial Intelligence

IIT Hyderabad First in India to launch Bachelor course in Artificial Intelligence: Details, Features, Significance, Highlights

IT Hyderabad has announced the launch of a full-fledged bachelor’s programme in Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology. IIT Hyderabad has become the first institute in India to launch full-fledged Bachelor’s programme in AI technology.

IIT Hyderabad will be the third institute to globally to offer the B.Tech course in AI.

Other institutes providing similar courses in AI are US-based Carnegie Mellon University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

The Bachelor’s course in AI would fill the demand gap which far exceeds the current supply.

The Bachelor’s course in AI will train students in the fundamentals of computer science, AI and Machine Learning, in addition to sensitizing them to the ethical issues in deploying AI-based solutions. The course would focus on application verticals such as healthcare, agriculture, smart mobility, among many others.

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence refers to the process of making a computer, a computer-controlled robot or a software think intelligently, in a similar manner the intelligent humans think.

Artificial Intelligence is designed by studying how human brain thinks, and how humans learn, decide, and work while trying to solve a problem, and then using the outcomes of this study as a basis of developing intelligent software and systems.