New Delhi, Aug. 27 -- India is moving from the era of AI pilots to broad-scale adoption and wants to be a maker and shaper of artificial intelligence, with Google highly optimistic about the country's long-term AI trajectory and seeing rising demand for advanced digital infrastructure, Alexander Smith, Principal, Global Infrastructure, Asia Pacific, Google, said.

"We're extremely optimistic about India and its long-term capabilities and its AI pathway. I think India is really demonstrating that it does not just want to be a taker of AI, it wants to be a maker and it wants to be a shaper," Smith said in an interview with ANI.

Smith said the last few years had largely involved organisations experimenting with AI, giving employees access t...