India has less than 2,000 skilled senior engineers to match this industry needs: Report - Times of India

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At a time when the

tech giants

like Google and Microsoft are looking at India for experts in AI technology, a report has claimed that the country currently has less than 2,000 senior engineers who can build AI core products.

Citing data from specialist staffing firm Xpheno, Moneycontrol reported that the total active accessible

Indian talent

with the minimum required skills, experience and exposure to core AI is a little under 21,000.

Core AI products

and services means AI-based apps, tools and platforms, among others

AI skilling programmes in India

This comes as

IT services companies

have said that they have been training thousands of employees in

AI skills

over the past year.

While Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has said it had trained 350,000 employees in AI skills, Infosys claims that eight out of 10 employees are AI-ready. As per Accenture, it is upskilling 250,000 employees in AI.

Another IT firm HCLTech is said to have trained 50,000 employees and Microsoft India had previously announced plans to skill 2 million people in AI by 2025. Nasscom has also claimed that 650,000-700,000 people are trained on AI.

'AI not limited to engineering'

According to the report, experts said that there are aspects of AI skilling that fall outside engineering and building core technology.

"The (AI) training that people are doing is more mass market," Jagdish Mitra, a tech veteran and board member of the non-profit National Skill Development Corporation, was quoted as saying.

"And that's not what will be valuable. What will be valuable is process-specific, application-specific and industry-specific skilling that will make a difference to how the skills are being used. It has to be more specific, otherwise it's like a man walking around with a hammer trying to find a nail," Mitra added.