Time100 AI 2024: Time releases AI 2024 list of 100 people, Ashwini Vaishnav and Anil Kapoor among others included in the list

New Delhi| Time Magazine has released a list of the 100 most influential people in AI. Many Indian names are included in this list. The most notable names in the list are Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Prominent Indian celebrities also include Ashwini Vaishnav, Nandan Nilekani and actor Anil Kapoor. Regarding Ashwini Vaishnav, Time wrote, “Under Vaishnav’s leadership, the country (India) is expected to become one of the top five countries for semiconductor manufacturing in the next five years”. It is a key component for modern AI systems. Construction for this has started at many factories in India.
TIME has reported that Vaishnav is facing significant challenges in realizing these ambitions. India’s technology sector is suffering from low private R&D investment and lack of advanced manufacturing ecosystem. Its educational system is also moving to produce the specialist workforce needed for cutting-edge AI and semiconductor development
The list also includes Proton’s product chief Anant Vijay Singh and Amazon’s senior vice president of artificial general intelligence and leading scientist Rohit Prasad. Anil Kapoor’s name is also included in the list, as Time praised him, saying he had “won a historic victory in the case of unauthorized AI use of his photograph in the New Delhi High Court in September”. Anil Kapoor’s victory has opened the way for other people to protect their personality rights as well