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Indian Express
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- Indian Express
No odd-even scheme, crackdown on old vehicles, EV push: What's on Delhi's plan to fight pollution
Written by Drishti Jain The odd-even vehicle rationing scheme launched by the previous Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government may not make a comeback this pollution season, with Chief Minister Rekha Gupta calling it 'troublesome'. Stating that it inconvenienced the people of Delhi, Gupta added, 'What if a family has only one vehicle at home? We must make decisions keeping in mind the needs and realities of Delhi's citizens.' The CM was speaking at the launch of the 'Air Pollution Mitigation Plan 2025' on Tuesday at the Delhi Secretariat. Gupta said a clean and healthy Delhi is the government's vision and reiterated that air pollution directly affects the health and well-being of citizens. The government aims to tackle air pollution through green initiatives, electric mobility expansion, traffic reforms, and scientific innovation. Gupta stressed the need to convert Delhi's transportation system to electric. To this end, 2,300 e-autos will be deployed at Delhi Metro stations and battery-operated e-rickshaws at various hubs. The government also intends to roll out 10,000 electric buses by 2027. Under the action plan, titled 'Shuddh Hawa Sabka Adhikar – Pradushan Par Zordar Prahar', the government will be installing sprinklers and anti-smog guns, which will be monitored using GPS, cameras, sensors and dashboards. 'The government has identified 13 pollution-causing hotspots across Delhi; mist sprayers will be installed on poles here,' Gupta added. The Chief Minister said pollution is affecting the quality of life. 'And vehicles are a primary source of pollution, both outside and locally. Now, overage vehicles will be regulated at Delhi's borders,' she said, adding that Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras will be installed at the city's entry points to identify end-of-life vehicles. Additionally, SMSes will be sent to overage vehicles registered in neighbouring states, warning them not to enter Delhi with effect from July 1. The plan will also use AI to monitor pollution caused by construction and pollution sites. Now, every site measuring more than 500 sqm has to be registered with the Delhi Pollution Control Committee, and the registration should be displayed on the site. The DPCC portal will be equipped with AI to check if they flout the rules. Taking a dig at the previous government, Gupta said, 'Past governments treated pollution like a two-month problem, but the double engine sarkaar is tirelessly working on the vision of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to mitigate it from the roots.' Environment Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa said these steps have been thought out thoroughly by the government in the last 100 days.
Time of India
3 hours ago
- Time of India
Google Deepmind CEO says global AI cooperation 'difficult'
Artificial intelligence pioneer and head of Google Deepmind's CEO Demis Hassabis on Monday said that greater international cooperation around AI regulation was needed but "difficult" to achieve "in today's geopolitical context".At a time when AI is being integrated across all industries, its uses have raised major ethical questions, from the spread of misinformation to its impact on employment, or the loss of technological London's South by Southwest (SXSW) festival on Monday, Hassabis, who has won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research on AI, also addressed the challenges that artificial general intelligence (AGI) -- a technology that could match and even surpass human capability -- would bring. "The most important thing is it's got to be some form of international cooperation because the technology is across all borders. It's going to get applied to all countries," Hassabis said. "Many, many countries are involved in researching or building data centres or hosting these technologies. So I think for anything to be meaningful, there has to be some sort of international cooperation or collaboration and unfortunately that's looking quite difficult in today's geopolitical context," he said. At Paris's AI summit in February, 58 countries -- including China, France, India, the European Union and the African Union Commission -- called for enhanced coordination on AI governance . But the US warned against "excessive regulation", with US Vice President JD Vance saying it could "kill a transformative sector". Alongside the US, the UK refused to sign the summit's appeal for an "open", "inclusive" and "ethical" AI. Hassabis on Monday advocated for the implementation of "smart, adaptable regulation" because "it needs to kind of adapt to where the technology ends up going and what the problems end up being".
India Today
4 hours ago
- India Today
Salman Rushdie says he has never used AI, warns it could replace writers but first it needs to learn comedy
When OpenAI launched ChatGPT in 2023, the reaction was mixed. On one hand, everyone was excited to see cutting-edge technology and what artificial intelligence could do for humans. On the other, fears began to linger about AI replacing humans in various jobs. One of the roles people were most concerned about was that of writers, as AI platforms like ChatGPT and Gemini could write everything from essays to novels. And since then these tools have become much famous writer Salman Rushdie believes that writers shouldn't fear AI — at least not for now — as it lacks one very important skill: a sense of humour. Speaking at the Hay Festival in Wales, Rushdie quipped that writers are safe from being overtaken by machines, at least until a bot can write a book that genuinely makes people laugh.'I've never tried AI,' he said. 'I pretend it doesn't exist. It has no sense of humour, you don't want to hear a joke told by ChatGPT. If there's ever a moment when a funny book is written by ChatGPT, I think we're screwed.' Rushdie's comments on AI came during his first major in-person appearance in the UK since he was seriously injured after he was stabbed while on stage in the United States. The attack left him blind in his right eye, but he has continued to make public appearances and comment on developments in literature and writers have been among the first white-collar professionals to raise the alarm about the rise of AI and its potential to replace humans in writing work. In recent years, several prominent authors have voiced concerns that AI companies are training language models using their copyrighted works, without permission or 2023, a group of more than 8,500 authors came together and signed an open letter to tech companies asking them to stop using their books for training AI tools.'These technologies mimic and regurgitate our language, stories, style, and ideas. Millions of copyrighted books, articles, essays, and poetry provide the 'food' for AI systems, endless meals for which there has been no bill,' they wrote in the growing tension between technology and creativity is even prompting many in the literary community to call for regulation and transparency. Writers argue that while AI can mimic sentence structure and tone, it lacks the emotional nuance, lived experience, and cultural insight that define truly impactful literature.
