New Delhi, February 18 People in India are willing to adopt new technologies, and companies here should focus on making their products easy to use, Zoom's Chief Operating Officer Aparna Bawa said on Wednesday.
This will help make AI accessible to more people and reduce the technology gap, she said.
"In India, people are willing to embrace new technologies and new things...Cell phones are available even in remote areas...so why shouldn't India embrace AI? And there are billions of people; if you can make things easy to use...if you can do that, and you are capable of doing that...I wouldn't see it as a competition between two major countries; the world is yours," she said.
The US and China are making huge investments in AI (artificial intelligence).
Bawa was speaking at a session - Scaling Trusted AI for 8 billion + - at the AI Impact Summit.
She said that several companies around the world are using the Zoom platform.
"And how do we do that? We do that because we are easy to use," she added.
Citing the example of ChatGPT, the COO said that it uses natural language to actually democratize AI, so that anyone can pick it up and use it.
"And that is going to be the critical thing," she said, adding that the use of AI will promote economic growth.
Speaking at the session, Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith said there is a need to bring AI skills to the global South, and India is a focal point for this activity.
"That's why, last year, we announced at Microsoft that we would bring AI skills to 20 million people across India. That's why, this week, through Microsoft Elevate, we're launching a new program to bring skills to 2 million educators, so that they can then bring those skills to their students," he added.
