ethical use as weapons and replacing human up to singularity - where the AI technology will surpass the human intelligence.
city system. UTEM through Melaka AI of Things (MAIoT) academy is supporting the initiative; signifies quadruple helix commitment from university, government, industry, and community. Several others AI societies are actively promoting the technology like the existence of Malaysia AI and Robotics Society (MAIRS).
Magnified with compelling evidence: robotic evolution in Predator drones for instance were an unmanned plane that able to target terrorists with deadly accuracy. This can actually be seen in Afghanistan and Pakistan; cars that can drive itself; and ASIMO, the world’s most advanced robot that can walk, run, climb stairs, dance, and even serve coffee (Kaku, 2011). AI technology, is it a dream or hype? According to Michio Kaku (2011), a physicist and founder of string theory, there is less than meets the eyes upon closer examination. Tremendous breakthroughs have been made in the last two decades, but facts must be put into perspective. The nightmare of fully autonomous, conscious, and murderous robots is still in the distant future. According to Thomas Dean of Brown University, it will take many decades of hard work before robots become as smart as a mouse, rabbit, dog, or cat, and then a monkey. AI is the future. Ironically, the technology has already been in the market. Either in cameras, air conditioners, automobiles, washingmachines or the search engines and browsers. Google, for example, is among the key players in AI technology besides Amazon, Ali Baba, Facebook, and many others. Smartphones: embedded with AI technology is used as a promotional strategy to push it in the market as leaders. Smile detector, red eye, real time automated editing on photos, that make DSLR almost insignificant is already the trend.
Uplifting Malaysia by leveraging on local talent capabilities in AI; is a way forward. According to Kaifu Lee, who an AI expert practising at leading technology companies, said it took almost 60 years for AI to form a real breakthrough through Deep Learning technology. UPLIFTING MALAYSIA BY LEVERAGING ON LOCAL TALENT CAPABILITIES IN AI; IS A WAY FORWARD.
So, why the sudden quantum leap in AI?
The market will growth over 50%; according to the Research and Markets 2018 report in Artificial Intelligence (AI) Market: Global Industry Analysis, Trends, Market Size, and Forecasts up to 2024. This is contributed by the availability and demand of voluminous data that need to be analysed and interpreted, the growth and opportunity of the cloud technology, the increasing needs of virtual assistants, and larger investment in AI technology. Huge implementation of AI technology has led to the increase of efficiency, greater profit, lowering cost, faster decision, and optimised cost. Advance and cheaper computing power, data storage capacity, and parallelization; are among the chief reasons. Rapid uptake happens among primary industries are healthcare, automotive, finance and tourism.
The questions rise - is Malaysia producing the right talent?
Since late 1990s, local universities have trained AI talents; either through computer science, information technology or engineering education programs. To name a few - AI research centres like Centre of AI and Robotics (CAIRO) UTM, and Centre of Artificial Intelligence and Technology (CAIT) UKM. Universities like UUM, UTEM, Monash University and MMU has offer postgraduate programs specialising in AI for the last decades. Significant numbers of books and academic journals on AI related topics were published ever since.
Melaka state as apioneer of sustainable and smart cityprogram, has a high adoption of IT as enabler to support its integrated
Harvard University started a pilot program named Embedded EthiCS in computer science education to bring in the
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