BENGALURU: To make engineering students job-ready, Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) is offering training on Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI) in collaboration with UK-based Chiac ASI.

ASI is predicted to be the technology of the future that can train robots and surpass human intelligence. The university has signed a memorandum of understanding with the private firm for this.

VTU Vice-Chancellor S Vidyashankar said, “Currently, under a pilot project, 100 lecturers and 1,000 students have been trained to use this ASI tool and study their curriculum along with the latest advancements in technology.  In addition, Chiac ASI will provide free internships to more than a thousand students and ASI textbooks to engineering college lecturers for effective teaching.”

Chandra Nagaraju, CEO and founder, Chiac ASI, said, “Every week, 27,000 research papers are released across the globe related to different streams of engineering. The ASI tool goes through these research papers and provides the content that can be made part of the curriculum and update them on what can be read and learnt.”

Emphasising that India has a bigger role to play in the field of ASI while USA and China are already in the lead, Nagaraju said, “From a national security perspective, it is an urgent necessity for India to establish leadership in the field of Super Intelligence before 2030.”

He also ensured that teachers will not be excluded from classrooms while students use this ASI tool to study in the classrooms.