India, March 13 -- Infosys founder and India's tech mogul Narayana Murthy on Tuesday warned against the rising artificial intelligence trend in India, calling most of it "silly old programmes".

Speaking at TiE Con Mumbai 2025, Narayana Murthy said he is seeing a lot of "ordinary" programmes being touted as artificial intelligence since it has become a "fashion" to bring up AI in almost everything in India.

"I think somehow it has become a fashion in India to talk of AI for everything. I have seen several normal ordinary programs touted as AI," he was quoted as saying in a Moneycontrol report.

Murthy also explained the basic fundamental principles of artificial intelligence - machine learning and deep learning - and their applications....