Specialists revealed that “robot” science and artificial intelligence today occupy the first place among the sciences affecting global economic development. To keep up with these super fast changes. The specialists said that the world will soon see cars without drivers, restaurants without workers, as well as complete electronic markets, as the consumer can try clothes electronically thanks to the three-dimensional image on the computer.
According to the artificial intelligence expert, the founder of the Robot Academy, Dr. Saud Al-Muhaidib, science is the main engine of the economy and the economy is the soft power that controls the world, and for that the world is racing to develop its scientific capabilities and it becomes clear to the discerning beholder the superior wisdom in including robot science and artificial intelligence as one of the main elements in Vision 2030. Referring in this regard to the insight of the leadership in creating a vision to build a generation that is empowered in robotics and artificial intelligence. This resulted from a depth of knowledge in the impact of technology on production, to create a generation that possesses basic capabilities in programming and digitization.
From user to maker
Dr. Saud Al-Muhaidib remembers and reminds those around him about the days when people lived before the computer, and how the Kingdom moved in a record period to the world of technology. She started as a user, then a maker, and today she has become a pioneering model in the field, and this can be seen in the huge curve of the impact of digital transformation on human life; It is indispensable to use smart software in daily life for what it offers to facilitate life, you see it in airports, factories, hospitals, courts, banks, ministries and schools.
Al-Muhaidib indicates that the whole world is heading towards the inclusion of artificial intelligence sciences in various aspects of life, such as medical devices that move in your body independently according to the data that these devices read, so they diagnose and treat diseases, and other devices in your car that facilitate its driving or drive itself and others in your home or work. Even your website on “Facebook” and “Twitter” and others have begun to use artificial intelligence mechanisms to analyze information and then produce the result that changes according to the data and changes according to the accumulations of data, and the use of complex mathematical concepts had the upper hand in enabling the machine to learn and even guess smart decisions, and whenever we can Developing fertile imagination and then converting it into cognitive patterns. We were able to transform imagination into algorithms and then into a machine that simulates human actions and imitates his movements and reactions.
What is the future of data science?
Al-Muhaidib believes that data is the basis of knowledge, gathered in the human mind and built in the form of relationships that represent cognitive meanings, but this huge data needed huge spaces to store it and a long time to analyze and use it in decision support places, and with the development of storage capacity, devices became more capable of containing huge data, But the enormity of data made it difficult to benefit from it because it took a long time to analyze it to take us back to square one, had it not been for the development of the speed of computers, and so on in a race between increasing data and increasing operational capacity. With the emergence of machine learning theories, scientists began to think about using mathematical concepts, and with successive experiments, scientists were able to develop mechanisms that make the guess more accurate. Scientists continued to build various mechanisms, taking advantage of mathematical concepts and harnessing them in building relationships between data. Mathematics, statistics and other sciences will continue to be used to make huge leaps in the modern renaissance that we see in the developed world today and in Saudi Arabia more clearly.
You won't live without it
Artificial intelligence expert, founder of the Robot Academy, Dr. Saud Al-Muhaidib, said: The huge development that takes place every day makes it difficult to guess the future. No one expected, with the advent of computers, a tenth of what we have today. Even if we review science fiction films, it does not match what people have reached today. And what we see of the impact of the introduction of artificial intelligence and robotics on us is only a window to a different future that needs mentalities that practice analysis and logic more than they use muscles. These smart cities that we are building today in the Kingdom are a global scientific precedent and a technical field that makes us put one step ahead of others, and a high-tech environment in its industries, services and ways of thinking that prepares our children for an ideal educational environment. Our children to be able to absorb and develop the developer.
Artificial intelligence is the electricity of the future. As famous scientist Edward Ng said, you can't live without it. For that, it was necessary for everyone to learn this science. He does not necessarily have to be a scientist, but to the extent that he is able to adapt it to his specialization or work. Scientific research says: the huge shift that the computer made in the world in the past forty years, artificial intelligence will happen in the next ten years two hundred times as much.
16 times the data speed
Assistant Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Wireless Networks at the University of Jeddah and supervisor of digital transformation, Dr. Abdullah Al-Daraani, confirmed that since the launch of Vision 2030, the wheel of digital transformation is accelerating through strategic plans and scientific methodologies that help build services and platforms that enable the beneficiary to accomplish tasks with a distinctive global competitive standard, and this The standards stemmed from a high-performance digital infrastructure, and the data speed became more than 16 times higher. It also achieved a global position among the top 10 developed countries in the world due to its strength and technology in enhancing the digital infrastructure. Al-Daraani pointed out that this distinctive environment was achieved through strategic partnerships with the private sector to raise the speed of communications and increase the geographical coverage with the latest optical technologies that increase the speed of data exchange as well as the volume of data used through the vast telecommunications networks.
He stated that the partnerships made it possible to cover more than 3.5 million additional homes, and also enhanced the provision of basic services to beneficiaries at rates of up to 100% for all regions, and through the great interest in government digital services and ease of access to them in a distinctive beneficiary journey through which satisfaction can be measured and developed. It is necessary to have an entity concerned with evaluating and regulating it, which was evident in the approval of the Council of Ministers to establish a digital government authority.
Leadership development initiatives
In the opinion of Dr. Abdullah Al-Daraani, digital human capabilities had a great interest by promoting many initiatives concerned with developing leaders, managing digital projects, developing competencies, and hackathon competitions from all institutions concerned with communications and digital transformation in Saudi Arabia, while adopting and building digital capabilities through distinguished initiatives such as "Your Digital Consultant", "Your Digital Path", "Future Skills Camps" and digital challenges of all levels and skills were an important factor in contributing to raising efficiency and ability to use the latest technologies and creating job parity with future skills, which creates an ideal environment for investing in digital content and creating a work environment Ideal for global companies interested in the future. The presence of government institutions such as the Saudi Authority for Data and Artificial Intelligence (SADAIA), the National Center for Artificial Intelligence, and the National Office for Data Management contributed greatly to solving many obstacles and helped in shaping the future by inferring data and developing them using advanced artificial intelligence theories, which is reflected positively. In making highly successful decisions that depend on the language of numbers and derive their success from understanding the graphic reality and predicting the future based on scientific foundations that have proven successful.
Create more jobs
Al-Darani says: The Kingdom’s investments in building smart cities are based on a deep and proactive vision of the world’s transformations, according to the latest global studies, into virtual reality. Smart cities will be attractive to life and investment and an economic force with high-performance governance.
The use of robots and increased reliance on them in providing daily services has boosted operational efficiency, spending efficiency and quality of performance in proportions that are consistent with national targets and are directly reflected in raising the national GDP.
He continues by saying: The application of smart digitization during the past years has contributed to the Kingdom obtaining many international acclaim and successive achievements, and it is evidence of the strength of the methodology and standards of digital work in Saudi Arabia, and the digital economy and digital content have contributed to raising investment, which is positively reflected in raising Employment rates and the creation of new job opportunities enable Saudi youth to shift from the hypothesis of job search to the reality of job creation.
Riyadh.. the first digital capital
Assistant Dean of Library Affairs at King Saud University, Dr. Ali bin Theeb Al-Aklabi, explained that information technology is the business and technical tasks that depend on computers and smart applications that take care of importing, producing, organizing, managing, preserving and making information available. The importance of technology in managing information more and more clearly in the present time as a result of the hugeness of information dealings on the Internet until the data has become huge and dealing with it requires more focus on developing information technology capabilities in a way that keeps pace with that hugeness and corresponds to its size that is constantly and rapidly growing. The Kingdom has gone through advanced stages in the process of digital transformation until it has become a role model, and the selection of Riyadh 2020 AD as the first Arab digital capital during the work of the Arab Council of Ministers for Communications is only one evidence of that.
He added that what we are witnessing from humanity’s relentless race towards digital transformation in all ways and requirements of life, and one of the most important capabilities of digital transformation after the availability of legislation is the wide spread of applications, devices and equipment based on the Internet of Things that began to appear for the first time in 2000, and for the Internet environment to move from being the Internet of Communications to the Internet of Things, and humanity begins to create what is known as smart buildings and roads, and thus smart cities that have begun to employ the capabilities of the Internet of Things to meet the needs of contemporary life, and to provide the best services and develop them in a way that achieves the best returns, and the best services depend on that in the capabilities of artificial intelligence that depends on Data and receives commands through Internet of Things applications that facilitated the control of tools, devices, and living organisms including humans, plants, animals, and even inanimate objects by providing those things with sensors connected to the Internet, and they have special and specific identifiers that are installed through an appropriate medium, so that data is received and sent to and from those things, and with With the emergence of a lot of medical equipment and devices connected to the Internet, it has become possible to activate Internet applications that contribute to the development of health care. As it is possible to achieve communication between patients and health care providers and follow-up of disease cases remotely in some types of diseases that do not require attendance at the clinic headquarters on an ongoing basis, as is the case in monitoring diabetes and insulin control devices; As the hospital is able to take daily readings by connecting to the device that was provided to the patient while he is at home, and it is also possible to invest in the Internet of things, provide medical instructions, and avoid some wrong procedures through its applications.
Cyber security and threat protection
Al-Aklabi stated that cybersecurity programs supported by artificial intelligence can provide data and information protection by proactively dealing with threats in order to detect any unusual activity in data storage locations, so that they can stop these threats or warn them before any danger occurs, hence the importance of data. Big data in support of decision-making, by analyzing big data efficiently, taking into account the constantly increasing volume of big data. Big data also provides a competitive advantage for organizations that have been able to devise practical solutions to dismantle their complexities, classify them, and analyze their content in order to achieve added value and rewarding returns as a result of their analysis. The importance of big data that is structured and processed and the use of advanced tools to analyze it has many benefits, including: making better decisions, discovering untapped opportunities and potential weaknesses, and finding solutions to what the analysis of big data reveals of potential problems in the areas of work, while increasing the opportunity for the organization to compete at different levels. Excellence, providing better services, and increasing the predictability of planners.
The Internet of Things.. the beating heart
Al-Aklabi points out that, with regard to the industrial sector, there is an increasing need to employ the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence in the work of production, distribution and operation, and control these multiple industries to control work, control the level of quality, increase production, and spare humans dangerous or arduous tasks and works, as they can do With very important services in the areas of transportation, agriculture, travel, tourism, home management and control, and so the Internet of things as well as artificial intelligence will be the beating heart in the new stage of human development in light of the emergence of smart cities, due to its contribution to saving time, effort and money with the wonderful services it provides.
Today, we have smart cities such as the city of NEOM, which has begun to build the foundational technical infrastructure for building advanced smart cities that are characterized by perceptual features, including augmented reality, virtual and mixed reality, to form sustainable smart cities that work by analyzing data and employing the capabilities of artificial intelligence and the Internet of things, whose outputs will undoubtedly be satisfactory. It meets the requirements of the quality of life for its residents, as it operates at high internet speeds with the latest generations of the Internet through the strongest and best service providers, so that digital technologies and solutions can work efficiently and stably in NEOM.
decision without human intervention
Al-Aklabi highlights the importance and capabilities of artificial intelligence in the next stage. As artificial intelligence has already entered our lives in the educational, health, technical and social fields, and it will shape the future of humanity in all fields, with all its negatives and positives, and in order for things to be clearer, what is meant by artificial intelligence is an attempt to enable the machine to simulate human intelligence through machine learning. Through pre-programmed software, which is called machine learning, and there is the advanced level, which is deep learning for the machine to be able to understand and learn on its own, and the goal is for the machine to be able in some tasks through artificial intelligence to make decisions without human intervention, and the employment of artificial intelligence and the digital environment will contribute In the service of human knowledge by improving research work, increasing production, sustaining activities, and speeding accurate performance in business.
Mohammed Al-Shahrani (Dammam) @mffaa1