Narayana Murthy, cofounder of Infosys, reflected on the hype going on in India around Artificial Intelligence. He warned about the rising artificial intelligence trend in India, calling most of it “silly old programmes”.
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Narayana Murthy on The Rising Fashion In AI.
Murthy, while speaking at TiE Con Mumbai 2025, expressed that AI has become fashion in India for everything, where he emphasized that most “so called AI things are silly, odd programmes”. He even concerned that normal, ordinary programmes are touted as AI.
He said while speaking, “I think somehow it has become a fashion in India to talk of AI for everything. I have seen several normal, ordinary programmes being touted as AI.”
Mr. Narayana Murthy’s Fundamental Principles of AI.
Mr. Narayan Murthy even shared two fundamental principal of AI. Machine learning and Deep Learning. While clarifying Machine Learning he said, “nothing but a large-scale correlation. Based on a large amount of data, it helps you predict.”
He said that Deep Learning imitates the working of the human brain. While machine learning handles supervised algorithms, deep learning takes care of unsupervised algorithms.
“Deep learning, using the data it has, creates new branches of programmes or new conditions and then it will be able to take decisions. Unsupervised algorithms, which use deep learning and neural networks are the ones that have much greater potential to do things that will mimic human beings better and better,” Mr Murthy said.
“But what I am seeing being called AI is silly, old programs,” he added.
AI Impact On Employment Explained.
Murthy also talked about the Artificial Intellegence impact on employment. He clarified every technology revolution eats some jobs but when used wisely new doors of opportunities and jobs open.
“In each tech, certain jobs will be eliminated, but if used in an assisted manner, we can grow the economy,” a Business Standard report quoted him as saying.
“AI for example, if you use it in autonomous vehicles for transport, hospital care, it will lead to expansion of those companies and create jobs,” he added.
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