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The Indian Institute of

Technology, Kharagpur will launch a six-month Artificial

Intelligence (AI) course at three centres in the country, a

top official of the institute said Thursday.

IIT-KGP, Director, Partha Pratim Chakrabarti told a

press meet here that the certified programme is aimed at

strengthening India's talent pool in Machine Learning and

AI.

Chakrabarti said the courses, which will begin from

March this year will be offered at IIT KGP's Kolkata facility,

at IIT KGP's Kharagpur campus and at a rented premise at

Bengaluru.

He said thousands of new jobs were being created in AI

sector every year with AI growing at 10-15 per cent on annual

rate and there was need to have more skilled people in the AI

sector.

"AI is the future which will more invade our lives in

the coming days," Chakrabarti said.

Head, Centre for Artificial Intelligence, IIT KGP,

Prof Sudeshna Sarkar said, the course with 300 students will

consist of 16 modules - each having 12-hour duration.

Around 2 lakh jobs in AI are expected to be created by

2020 in India, Sarkar said.

She said the classes will be taken by IIT KGP faculty,

reputed academic institutions and industry experts.

There will be 60 per cent from the IIT KGP faculty and

academics and 40 per cent from industry who will be teaching

the students in the 16 modules, Sarkar explained.

She said the demand is getting higher in AI in the

country than the total number of AI-skilled professionals and

there was need to bridge that gap.

The course modules have been carefully designed to

cover mathematical and algorithmic foundations, AI

fundamentals

and statistical and machine learning methods.

"The courses will have a blend on fundamental

theoretical principles as well as hands-on component and

industry use cases and students will have the opportunity to

work on live projects.

"Every course module will be based on assignments and

exams and a certificate will be awarded based on successful

completion of the modules. It will be rigorous," she said.

The students will be selected competitively from

working professionals and senior students.

Tools and platforms will be introduced to make the

students, from working professionals and senior students,

technologically competent and ready for jobs.

The AI course, application for which commenced on

January 2 for screening and shortlisting, will start from

March 10, this year.

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