“We are entering an era that is going to lead to something incredible and profound that has never been seen before.” This is said by Omar Bin Sultan Al Olama, a 33-year-old Dubai native and Minister of Artificial Intelligence of the United Arab Emirates since 2017. It was the world’s first ministerial position in this field and demonstrates this country’s faith in this technology. And he also affirms it in a singular event: what is proclaimed as the largest technology fair in the world (Gitex, organized by Dubai World Trade Centre, and the parallel exhibition Expand North Star, of the Chamber of Digital Economy) and in which, according to the organization, 6,000 companies from 180 countries and more than 180,000 visitors have participated. This exhibition, which will have a European replica for the first time in its 43-year history, in Berlin from May 21 to 23, has brought together the largest exhibition of artificial intelligence present, with its challenges and threats.
The Dubai minister defends the supervision of the new technology (United Arab Emirates has signed the Bletchley Declaration), but refuses to join protectionist currents. “We are not going to be here. “We are going to govern to guarantee people’s lives in the areas that matter to them,” he says, citing misinformation and hoaxes as emerging threats and defending international cooperation as a tool. But he advocates letting “technology as a whole be freed, rather than confined and restricted.”
The two exhibitions held in Dubai under the motto AI Everything They are a faithful reflection of this conception. These are some of the most unique proposals. Some of them challenge the future European standard AI act either Artificial Intelligence Law.
Management. It is the majority offer in the two samples. Artificial intelligence has been inserted in all areas, from education and health to the creation of own applications or the generation of unique and personalized computer ecosystems. It has been present in aspects such as water management, the armed forces, the police, municipal administration, sales, industry, mining, finance, cybersecurity… Any human process gains efficiency. This is defended by Hazem Nabih, technology director for the Middle East at Microsoft, who assures that “the productivity of any company increases between 30% and 50%” with the new technology. One of the greatest challenges is related to information, which can be subjected to levels of manipulation that are unprecedented in complexity and scope. Hazem Nabih advocates for consolidated media in the journalistic field as a guarantee of reliability and ethics in the processing of information.
One of the trends seen in Dubai is the bundling of services, such as the one proposed by Chinthaka Athulanthmudali, representative of ITX360. This entity, based in Sri Lanka, offers solutions to “increase productivity, optimize processes and drive growth” in any area, from purely IT to automation and communication. All in one.
Content generation. It is another of the great axes of artificial intelligence. Warren Leow of Malaysia represents Imagine, a company born from an image database that has specialized in developing smart, fast and easy design tools for any creative process. Leow, who knows Spain, subjects one of his platforms to a test: “Bullfighter in the Alcázar of Seville.” He orders to do without low quality images, watermarks, blurred areas… The result is a non-existent woman in a fictitious setting, but of high quality. She does the same with corporate information that includes a well-known car brand with a no less well-known soccer team. The result is grammatically and stylistically impeccable. And you can combine everything to generate videos, web pages, messages on networks… Arnaud Ginioux, director of the company for southern Europe, shows some creations already made for big brands while justifying the absence of barriers so that platforms, with a cost less than 10 euros per month, generate hyper-realistic false content: “It is a tool. The responsibility lies with the user.”
Solutions of this nature abound in Gitex and some are aimed at children, such as the Indian cartoon creation platform Bhooshan’s Junior, which incorporates a dialogue option with artificial intelligence to be used directly by minors while viewing the product.
facial recognition. This tool, which already occupied a central space at the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) in Asia (Shanghai) four years ago, is advancing much faster than the regulatory claims of the European Union, which will prohibit its indiscriminate use. At Gitex, the accelerated race for its development continues and some companies have presented tools that “transform any camera into an intelligent observer that allows attendance control at school or at work, as well as the measurement of concentrations of people.”
In this field, the Saudi company T2 has presented Availo, a system to control employees’ working hours using the Internet of Things (IOT) technique through facial recognition or voice recognition for each employee. “You don’t need more than a smartphone to make sure they are present and on time,” the company says.
Robotics. It couldn’t be missed at a technology fair. Deep Robotics has brought its quadruped models aimed at industrial and rescue work. Vera Huang admits that the greatest advances have been motors, such as the ability to jump or climb stairs, but she clarifies, in reference to the potential of artificial intelligence: “Programs can be incorporated into it.”
Who has already done so is the well-known Dennis Hong, founder of RoMeLa and creator of Artemis, the android robot that plays soccer as a demonstration of the versatility achieved in its movement capabilities. “99.9% of the robots that exist today use servomotors and are very rigid. They’re great for factory automation or one-off household tasks, but you can’t really use them for walking. This robot [Artemis] It imitates biological muscle and allows it to be agile, fast and very robust. He’s also quite intelligent,” explains Dennis Hong.
“This robot,” adds the engineer, “does not use artificial intelligence to control locomotion. However, it is intelligent in the sense that it can recognize a good plan and make decisions autonomously.” “The future,” he concludes, “is that it can do anything a human can do.”
Health. Gitex has presented different proposals for artificial intelligence in this area, from the classic ones for hospital and health management (the most abundant) or diagnostic imaging to the most innovative ones, such as the low-cost robotic hand of Mand.ro or Rokit Healthcare’s Invivo 3D bioprinter for research in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. One of the most unique is Skia’s “virtual autopsy” tool, which uses a patient’s data, recreates a three-dimensional model and compares it with the data of the same deceased person to provide the causes of death with the help of artificial intelligence.
The giants Lenovo and Intel have presented their collaboration with Novo Genomics, a Saudi company specialized in personalized medical treatments for genetic diseases. The system Lenovo Goast It can process up to 32 exomes (coding parts of genes) in less than three hours.
Mobility. It is another of the great fields of artificial intelligence. Tom McCarthy, CEO of Aspire, has presented the A2rl, a driverless Formula 1 model managed by artificial intelligence. McCarthy details that it can reach 300 kilometers per hour and weighs 690 kilograms. But, although he will participate in autonomous vehicle competitions, it is not his final goal. “We are creating an ecosystem to attract the industry. The future is mobility,” he states.
The Emirati Sulmi electric motorcycle also moves in the same field, equipped with artificial intelligence and with a range of 300 kilometers, maximum speed of 155 kilometers per hour and recharging in 30 minutes.
Along with several models of electric cars from the main brands, the electric aircraft from AutoFlight Europe has also been exhibited in Dubai, a company that is already carrying out test flights in Shanghai in order to obtain the necessary certification, which will first arrive for its version. cargo cargo and, in about four years, for the model capable of carrying a pilot and between two and three passengers. Once they obtain the Chinese permit, they will begin to apply for it in other countries. “In Europe we hope that next year we can do some demonstration flights,” clarifies Jocelyn Moreau, head of the company based in Germany.
“The device can take off and land like a helicopter and fly like an airplane to reach between 200 and 250 kilometers. We hope the price will be below two million euros,” he says.
Care services. It is another area in which artificial intelligence has been introduced to offer closer services. This is the case of the human-like holographic assistant equipped with artificial intelligence and presented by Purple Go in the Dubai Digital City pavilion. Mohamed Akhdas explains that “it is a device that is already on the market.” The assistant is capable of identifying a person by their appearance, attracting their attention and maintaining a conversation with them, even joking. One of the participants in the event was attracted by the hologram based on the color of her shirt and invited to allow herself to be painted. In a few minutes, she laughingly presented a drawing that looked intentionally childish, but that exactly reflected the basic lines of the visitor’s image and her clothing. The extraordinary capacity for interaction can be used for any assistance service with precise instructions, for sales or for administration.
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