What is Artificial Intelligence?
Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to the
simulation of human’s mental intelligence in machines that are programmed to
think like humans and mimic their actions. Artificial Intelligence can be applied to a machine
that will exhibit traits associated with a human mind such as learning and
problem-solving.
From automated chatbots for problem-solving to facial recognition and ethical issues, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been a hot the technology adopted by all tech giants including Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Oracle, etc. AI has been detrimental in improving the lives of people by automating kinds of stuff that require huge manpower.
Not only businesses but countries and governments are also
leveraging AI
to fight the deadly COVID 19 pandemic that has changed the lifestyle and have
infected more than 10 million people globally. It is also helping scientists to
monitor climate changes globally.
Role of Artificial Intelligence in Fighting Covid-19
Ericsson recently held a workshop on AI for good and sustainable business. Dr. Aleks Krotoski, Ericsson UnBoxed Office, Social Series, and the host, said that they will be looking at the future of communication technologies.
We will look at how AI is helping us in the fight against coronavirus. How is it helping us in climate change?
For the White House call to action to battle Covid-19,
Ericsson partnered with the National Institutes of Health, Georgetown
University, and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy on
their open research dataset challenge Covid-19. This challenge has 10 open
tasks ranging from understanding Covid-19 risk factors in finding treatment
protocols.
These were the latest and greatest developments in big data to
understand the basic behavior of the novel coronavirus.
“There were issues to go through, from
ethics to genome sequencing. With this rich talent, we were able to deliver
back to the White House. It was an incredible experience. Data was retrieving and sifting”
To keep the economy running, it is very important to come
out of the house, but as more and more people are coming out, the coronavirus
is also spreading tremendously. We need to leverage AI, machine learning and
big data analytics to trace patients exhibiting earlier symptoms and isolate
them
Sustainability and Artificial Intelligence
Cecilia Nystrom, Program Manager, Data and Analytics,
Ericsson Business Area Managed Services noted that they were working with AI
researchers and collaborating with them to determine how they could use their
expertise in the telecom domain and AI domain. They can use this information to
help the society in the battle against Covid-19.
“We also learned
about climate change. Sustainability is really a great topic. We can do AI to
increase the efficiency of mobile networks. If you have the opportunity to
reduce energy consumption, you can also reduce costs”
The combination of business and sustainability is extremely
powerful. The data volumes in mobile networks are really growing right now. It
also means that new opportunities are also being enabled by all of this.
However, it can also harm energy consumption.
Overconsumption of energy particularly
oil and gas is leading to global warming which is increasing the average
the temperature of the globe
AI now acts as an
an additional tool that builds in more intelligence into the networks. For example,
you can use AI in the mobile
networks to predict the traffic and use effective resources which will end up
saving a lot of energy as well
Jorgen Gustafsson, Sector Manager, AI Infrastructure,
Ericsson Research noted that they are looking for insights as the world is looking
to flatten the curve and protect the privacy of the users, which is also very
critical. The telecom network has produced a lot of data. We can take this
aggregated data and leverage advanced AI
to squeeze out insights.
Ethics of Using AI System
Paul McLachlan of Ericsson says that they are taking ethics
very seriously. They are very mindful of ethics. They are leveraging AI to
develop and further improve ethics and data governance.
Data localization is also a very
important part that needs to be considered. Recently, the Indian government
banned 59 Chinese applications including Tiktok, Shareit, UC Browser for
violating data localization norms
We must also consider
the fact that certain AI-based technologies violate the basic and fundamental
principles of human rights.
On June 9, IBM decided to ban the use of
facial recognition technology in its business development products and services
used for mass surveillance and racial profiling. This is a welcome step started
by tech giants like IBM, Amazon, and Google.
Amazon has put a one-year moratorium on
selling law enforcement agencies its facial recognition platform “Rekognition”
Google also points out that there is a severe disparity in error rates as detection technology don’t work for dark-toned skin.
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