By Desaraju Surya
AMARAVATI: Farmers in Andhra Pradesh will soon be guided through Artificial Intelligence and other emerging technologies on resource-efficient crop planning for achieving optimum output and, also, in tune with the market trends.
This is expected to ensure higher sustainable income for farmers and increase the Gross Value Addition of the agriculture sector to the Gross State Domestic Product.
A Generative AI chatbot, also known as Conversational AI, tool will, likewise, be made operational in the agriculture department to enable farmers to access all relevant information in both text and voice formats in the local language.
The Commissionerate of Collegiate Education (CCE) will soon open an Artificial Intelligence-powered chatbot that will provide 24×7 access to all college information to students.
Lack of such facility now has been forcing lakhs of students to personally visit the educational institutions for any information, at the same time increasing the workload on the Commissionerate staff.
Now, the CCE will use Generative AI chatbots to eliminate these problems and make the system student-friendly.
AI could also be put to use to analyse student data to reduce dropouts.
These are some of the Gen AI projects the Andhra Pradesh government is planning to implement in different departments for improved citizen services and outcomes.
The Andhra Pradesh government is focused on moving towards an Artificial Intelligence-powered governance for improved delivery of quality services to citizens.
Accordingly, various initiatives are being planned where AI and other emerging technologies like Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics will be put to use.
To bring in inclusivity in governance, the Information Technology, Electronics and Communications Department will open a Gen AI chatbot that will guide citizens on various schemes of the government, application process, grievance registration.
This will be a unique Telugu-speaking chatbot that can process different dialects of the language for easy comprehensive of people from various regions.
Experts, however, warn that AI and ML “cannot be the panacea for all ills”.
There are many “limitations” to Gen AI as it could be difficult to verify and explain the generated output.
“Gen AI may generate biased or inaccurate information, which could have serious consequences. AI models are not inherently ethical or responsible,” the experts note.
“It can be challenging to verify and explain the output generated by generative AI, which could lead to mistrust and low public acceptance of AI-powered government services,” they further warn.
“AI models generate responses based on patterns in the training data, but they do not have the ability to verify the accuracy or truthfulness of the information they generate.”