New Delhi March 9 (IANS) In a bid to promote the countrys architectural heritage the central government will be digitally recreating monuments using 3D technology an official said on Thursday.
At an Assocham event on Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Robotics Union Science and Technology Secretary Ashutosh Sharma said India needed to deeply think of using Artificial Intelligence to fulfill its need for creating two crore jobs annually.
The Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT-D) (under a project) recreated the lost city of Hampi 3D printed it and also embedded all the information related to the monuments sculptures their whole history he said.
We (Union Science and Technology Ministry) are going to reproduce using the same technology now all the monuments he added.
Emphasising the impact of Artificial Intelligence on sectors like education and healthcare Sharma called for strong policy statements.
To deal with the future we need to modify existing policies and introduce new elements and policies the minister said.
We certainly need best of our technologists scientists even social scientists economists to think very deeply about using artificial intelligence to generate jobs he added.
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Government to digitally recreate heritage buildings
