Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence – GPAI

Context: The annual meeting of Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) Summit commenced in New Delhi in Bharat Mandapam on 12th December, which will last till 14th December. 

Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence or GPAI Summit 2023

• India is the Incoming Support Chair for the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI). 
• Key Themes discussed in the meeting are: ‘Application of AI in Priority Sector’, ‘Creating a Responsible AI’, ‘Role of AI in advancing healthcare’ and ‘Ensuring Resilient Employment in times of AI’.

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What is the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence?

• Mission: Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence is a multi stakeholder initiative, which strives to ensure that the AI in practice is aligned with human rights, diversity, innovation while encouraging sustainable economic growth. 
• Secretariat: Placed at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
• Membership: The  Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence is a global alliance of 29 countries, including the US, UK, Germany, Israel, Singapore, Australia, Belgium and France, as well the EU,
• India: India is a founding member of  Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence, having joined the multi-stakeholder initiative in June 2020. 
  • India will take over the presidency of the  Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) in 2024, and has already been a member of the steering committee since November 2022. 

Previous meetings of AI

• The first three Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence summits were held in Montreal, Paris and Tokyo, respectively.
• When Japan was hosting the GPAI, the Tokyo Declaration was signed. The declaration opposed the unlawful and irresponsible use of artificial intelligence and other technologies.

What is Artificial Intelligence?

• Definition: As per IBM, Artificial intelligence leverages computers and machines to mimic the problem-solving and decision-making capabilities of the human mind. 
• Algorithms: AI operates using techniques like Neural Network, Deep Learning, Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing. 
• Chatbots: Presently, AI has been democratized through chatbots like ChatGPT, Bard and Microsoft Bing Chat.
  • These chatbots employ Large Language Models (LLMs) to understand the inputs by users, and generate appropriate responses based on their training data. 
  • These types of AI Chatbots have popularly become known as Generative AI due to their ability to generate human-like responses. 

Regulation of AI

• USA issued an executive Order to regulate the threats posed by use of AI and extend oversight over the safety benchmarks that are used by various companies during the training of generative AI bots. 
• Recently, the EU has passed the first comprehensive legislation on AI, called the AI Act. The Act introduces safeguards on the use of AI, including clear guardrails on its adoption by law enforcement agencies, and empowering to launch complaints against any perceived violations.
  • The deal includes  restrictions on facial recognition technology, and on using AI to manipulate human behaviour, alongside provisions for tough penalties for companies breaking the rules.
• Bletchley Declaration: It is the first-ever global AI Safety Summit to address the frontier AI associated risks and work together on AI Safety. India has also signed the declaration. 

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India’s initiatives towards AI

• ‘AI for all’ is a self learning platform designed to teach AI to people from all walks of life. India’s effort towards AI journey focuses on social empowerment and inclusion at the core. 
• India’s AI Vision: India wants to take the Digital Public Infrastructure or DPI approach with AI, where it aims to build underlying systems – both databases and compute capacity – for facilitating the spread of AI.
• IndiaAI Hub: It is the national portal to provide an ecosystem for innovation and adoption for social impact. 
• YUVAai: It is a platform to enhance the skills of school students from classes 8 to 12 on using AI to tackle critical problems and become future-ready. 
• National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence: It is an upcoming strategy to help India leverage technology effectively.. 

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Source: The Hindu