MBZUAI Talks – Advances in Operational Artificial Intelligence and Impact on Society

MBZUAI Provost, Professor Fakhreddine Karray, is our expert speaker for this installment of MBZUAI Talks.

MBZUAI Talks is a webinar series dedicated to demystifying artificial intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) and related concepts. Karray’s captivating talk on “Advances in Operational Artificial Intelligence and Impact on Society,” will give you an overview on the origins and advancements in the field of AI, with special attention paid to Operational Artificial Intelligence (OAI).

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MBZUAI Talks puts the University’s AI experts and AI concepts at your fingertips. The talks, hosted by world leaders in AI research, have garnered attention from around the globe. Topics include the history of AI, current developments, and even ventured into the future of AI and its impact.

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“It is expected that AI will grow the world ‘s GDP by 15% as early as 2025. This amounts to more than 15 trillion dollars per year of growth. We are indeed on the cusp of revolutionary technological developments fueled by advances made in the field of machine learning and artificial intelligence,” said Karray.

Although AI constitutes an umbrella of several interrelated technologies, all of which are aimed at imitating (to a certain degree) human intelligence, behavior, and decision making, it is deep learning algorithms that are considered to be the driving force behind the explosive growth of AI applications across key technology sectors including: disease diagnosis, remote healthcare monitoring, financial market prediction, self-driving vehicles, social robots with cognitive skills, intelligent manufacturing, surveillance, cybersecurity, and intelligent transportation systems, to name a few.

“Recent advancements in AI and novel applications have impacted other technological innovations, enabling the fields of Internet of Things (IoT), autonomous vehicles, virtual assistants, human machine intelligent interface, natural language and speech understanding, cognitive robotics, virtual care systems, eHealth and Fintech,” said Karray as he stressed the massive potential and importance of AI as a transformative science that will touch all aspects of human society.

Overall, Karray highlighted milestones that led to the current growth in AI, discussed future directions for AI, and enumerated challenges in making OAI useful to humanity and safe for society. His talk also demonstrated how significant accomplishments made in the field of AI are directly connected to key technologies expected to herald a new technological era  of prosperity – the dawn of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.