{"id":3459,"date":"2017-03-16T16:12:05","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T16:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/?p=3459"},"modified":"2017-03-16T16:12:05","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T16:12:05","slug":"government-digitally-recreate-heritage-buildings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/2017\/03\/16\/government-digitally-recreate-heritage-buildings\/","title":{"rendered":"Government to digitally recreate heritage buildings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a bid to promote the country&#8217;s architectural heritage, the central government will be digitally recreating monuments using 3D technology, an official said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>At an Assocham event on &#8220;Artificial Intelligence (AI) &amp; Robotics&#8221;, Union Science and Technology Secretary Ashutosh Sharma said India needed to deeply think of using Artificial Intelligence to fulfill its need for creating two crore jobs annually.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IIT-D), (under a project) recreated the lost city of Hampi, 3D printed it and also embedded all the information related to the monuments, sculptures, their whole history,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We (Union Science and Technology Ministry) are going to reproduce using the same technology now all the monuments,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Emphasising the impact of Artificial Intelligence on sectors like education and healthcare, Sharma called for &#8220;strong policy statements&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To deal with the future, we need to modify existing policies and introduce new elements and policies,&#8221; the minister said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We certainly need best of our technologists, scientists, even social scientists, economists to think very deeply about using artificial intelligence to generate jobs,&#8221; he added.\u2014IANS<\/p>\n<p>Image:\u00a0Alamy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a bid to promote the country&#8217;s architectural heritage, the central government will be digitally recreating monuments using 3D technology, an official said on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":3460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3459"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3461,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3459\/revisions\/3461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}