Faculty at Indian Institute of Technology has launched a start-up which will train the young minds of the nation for the advent of the Artificial Intelligence by training them at nominal costs. The course is open to all the students , faculty and professionals who have a basic background in mathematics and Python. The fee for the students and faculty is INR 1000 and for the professionals, it is INR 5000. The course will include monthly contests along with a capstone project which will train the participants to build an app which works like Google lens.
The startup, One Fourth Labs, has an online school 'PadhAI' that will teach Artificial Intelligence in India at an affordable price.
In an official statement IIT-Madras said “Every year, the top performing students from courses on PadhAI will be invited to a 'summer garage,' an AI residency program at IIT Madras Research Park where they can work on research, tackle problems of societal impact, or find solutions to commercial value”.
The four-month course comprises 80 hours of lecture content and requires equivalent time in solving assignments. Interested candidates can register themselves for the course at -- http://padhai.onefourthlabs.in.
Registrations for the course are open until January 24, 2019.