TCS Makes Bold Move: Launching Largest-Ever Workforce GenAI Upskilling Program

16 Jan 2024 , 01:49 PM

According to news reports, TCS, the largest exporter of IT services in the country, will provide training to all 5 lakh software engineers on the forthcoming Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) potential. The CEO of the company’s recently established ‘AI.Cloud’ branch, Siva Ganesan, told PTI that as a business prospect, Gen AI is still in its ‘early days’ and that the use cases are still tiny.

According to him, the company, which revealed a few months ago that it was working on 250 projects using generative AI, is also utilizing the knowledge gained from Gen AI to expedite its ongoing work for clients.

‘The workforce is getting geared and primed and it’s a matter of time when all the organization itself is (Gen) AI ready,’ he said. ‘So it’s probably smaller use cases right now. It is a matter of time before the huge transformation that we also talk about that supplements assets and augment comes by. Is there a timeline to that, I think for right now it is wait and watch, we have to see in the coming quarters right of the game unfolds,’ he said. TCS is in investment mode as it prepares for the future, which will witness higher demand for AI offerings.

TCS is in investment mode as it prepares for the future, which will see a stronger demand for AI solutions. Officials stated that the company’s main goals are to equip its workforce with the necessary skills and to partner with the appropriate companies.

‘The workforce is getting geared and getting primed and it’s a matter of time when all the organization itself is (Gen) AI ready,’ he stated.

Ganesan said that one can easily do the math given the current rate of training, under which it has trained over 1.50 lakh staffers in the skillsets in roughly seven months, when asked for a target time period by when it plans to finish the staff training on Gen AI skillsets.

Its chief technology officer, Harrick Vin, stated, ‘We are very confident to create one of the world’s largest AI-ready workforce for the future so that I think we can safely say that with a high degree of confidence.’

According to Ganesan, a portion of the skills that the corporation is teaching also concentrate on non-technical areas that take the organization’s overall objectives into consideration.

Ganesan did not explicitly respond to questions on profitability or whether consumers’ easy access to tools like Chat GPT will result in a compromise.

He continued, ‘Gen AI solutions are complex to implement and require a great deal of rigour.’

‘in terms of the way we go about it, there are several things to consider. One is the right guardrails, security, confidentiality, you know, there is a lot of hard work that goes into the architecture and construction of these systems and what value will come out of deploying them or implementing them,’ Ganesan explained.

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