Opinion: Nepal should gamble on artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can help Nepal in its quest for development and prosperity.

Although unrelated, the last decade has seen two significant events: Nepal promulgated a new constitution after decades of instability and is now aiming for prosperity. At the same time, artificial intelligence saw a resurgence through deep learning, impacting a wide variety of fields. Though unrelated, one can help the other – artificial intelligence can help Nepal in its quest for development and prosperity.

Artificial intelligence (AI) was conceptualised during the 1950s, and has seen various phases. The concept caught the public’s imagination and hundreds, if not thousands, of movies and novels were created based on a similar idea – of a machine’s intelligence being on par with humans.