India 20th on Nature AI Index, 3rd in research This story is from December 26, 2020 India 20th on Nature AI Index, 3rd in research Chandrima Banerjee | TNN | Updated: Dec 26, 2020, 06:16 IST Representative image Elephants don’t play chess. They don’t need to. They need to know how to forage for food, protect themselves from predators, mate and migrate. In 1990, this argument changed how the world thought of Artificial Intelligence. MIT professor Rodney Brooks said AI must interact with the physical environment and not just rely on complex (and slow) computation of symbols, the way human brains do. So, they don’t all need to play chess.