The document discusses artificial intelligence (AI) and the UAE's efforts to become a global leader in AI. It outlines the UAE's national AI strategy, which aims to boost the economy and improve government services using AI. The strategy includes increasing GDP by 30% and saving 50% of annual government costs by 2031. The document also addresses challenges to adopting AI like privacy, skills shortages, and ensuring ethical use. It highlights some of the UAE's achievements to date in partnerships, education programs, and early use cases of AI-enabled government services.
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Clearing the Path to an AI Future in UAE
1. Clearing the Path to an AI
Future in UAE
Dr. Saeed Aldhaheri
Chairman of the board,
Smartworld
@DDSaeed
2. Agenda
• What is AI and Why Now?
• Potential economic benefits of AI in the UAE
• The UAE AI strategy and achievements to date
• Challenges facing AI adoption and how to realize
its full economic benefits
3. My Interest in AI and disruptive technologies
Audit in the age of AI
5. World Race
to lead in AI
• The world is racing to win the AI race
• Competitive advantage, economic growth, societal impact
• Opportunities and challenges
• What does it mean to us!
Tim Dutton: politics + AI: 13-07-2018
6. AI Impact on the
Global Economy
• The Middle East is expected to
accrue 2% ($320 billion) of the
total global benefits of AI in
2030.
• In relative terms the UAE is
expected to see the largest
impact of close to 14% ($96
billion) of 2030 GDP.
• 33% annual growth rate AI in
the UAE AI automation is projected to increase global
productivity rates by 0.8-1.4% annually over
the next 50 years. McKinsey Global Institute
7. AI as a New Factor of Production in the
Economic Growth
• AI is able to replicate work activities at a much greater
scale and speed
• AI augmented growth can add $182 billion for the
UAE, and 1.6% economic growth rate
• Three channels of growth:
• Intelligent automation
• New virtual workforce (robots and chat bots)
• Learn and improve
• Labor and capital augmentation
• Enhances skills and abilities of workforce and physical
capital
• Innovation diffusion
• Not only do things differently, but do different things
• More hubs, accelerators, incubators programs
8. AI economics: What does AI Technology
reduces cost of?
• “ the rise in AI as a drop in the cost of prediction.”
– Ajay Agrawal
• AI is making prediction better, faster, cheaper
• A big game changer
• Implications
• More predictions
• Entering a new era of predictive commerce
• Examples: demand forecasting, price prediction and optimization,
recommendation engines)
• Convert non-prediction problems into a prediction one
• E.g autonomous cars
• HR as a series of predictions problems : recruitment, promotion,
retention
9. AI & Robotics in Automation
More than 80,000 robots
Worldwide handling millions
of orders each day
Spyce robotic kitchen in Boston
11. What is Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• “The theory and development of computer systems able
to perform tasks normally requiring human intelligence,
such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision
making, and translation between languages.” Google,
2017, & Oxford English Dictionary
• “AI is software or a computer program with a mechanism
to learn. It then uses that knowledge to make decision in a
new situation.
• Ability of machines to use algorithms to learn from data
and use that “knowledge” to make decisions
12. What makes AI
so Important
Now?
• Solving complex problems
• Pattern recognition and image classifications
• complex predictions
• Translation between languages
• Potential impact on society and economy
• Competitive advantages for early adopters
• Why now?
• Increase in computing power and the effect of the cloud
• BiG Data
• enhanced algorithms (ML, DL,,etc)
13. The UAE AI Strategy
• “The UAE Centennial 2071 begins now, with
the launch of massive projects such as the AI
strategy to set up the basis for the coming
phase”,,,
• “AI “the new wave upon which all our services,
sectors and future infrastructure will rely on.”
• “… The implementation of AI technologies will
help develop new sectors and create various
opportunities for our national economy.”
14. The UAE AI Strategy
Vision:To boost government performance
Goal: to make UAE the first in the world in
the field of AI investment in various vital
sectors, as well as create a new vital
market with high economic value.
By 2031:
• 30% boost of UAE GDP
• 50% saving on annual cost to government
• 90% resistance of financial crises
• 100% use of AI in services and gov data
analytics
15. Activating the AI Strategy: Achievements to
date
• Still in early stage, but noticeable efforts
• AI strategic plans, or road map rolled out by some entities
• Early use cases for AI-enables services are encouraging
• Partnerships
• HCT and Oracle: training students
• RIT-Dubai and and Smart Dubai Office: MSc in Data science
• MoU to train Emaratis on AI at oxford University
• UAE AI summer camp & UAE Coder program
• International level: the global AI governance Forum
• Still a lot need to be done
• AI road map for the future
• Working to incorporate AI in school curricula
• Preparing people for change
• Laws and regulation
Smart Dubai sign MoU with RIT-Dubai to
develop Master’s Degree in Data Science
AI MoU to train Emiratis at Oxford University
UAE AI summer camp UAE coder program
16. Reinventing Government Services using AI and Robotics
Shehab chatbot by DCT Abu Dhabi
Automating call centers using AI Robotics automation AI-Human augmentation
Autonomous Vehicles
17. Future of Jobs and The skills needed in the Future
• 43 percent of work activities in the
UAE can be automated today with
current technologies. McKinsey report
Implication: workers need to evolve
to adopt to automation and invest in
skills that workers of the future will
require.
• 1.9 million jobs in UAE will be
affected.
• 65% of children entering primary
school today will end up working in
new jobs that do not yet exists.
• New jobs: e.g data scientists
In 2020, AI will become a positive
net job motivator, creating 2.3
million jobs, while eliminating only
1.8 million jobs.
Gartner prediction 2018
18. New AI-Driven jobs
• Trainers: teach AI system how to perform
• domain experts
• Explainers: help provide clarity
• Algorithm forensics analyst
• Sustainers: help ensure that AI systems are operating as
designed.
• Ethics compliance manager
MIT Sloan special collection report
19. Challenges facing AI
adoption
• Privacy
• Technology issues
• The need for huge training data
• Data Quality
• Algorithmic bias
• Ethical issues with AI (e.g, unemployment, responsibility)
• Shortage of talents and skills
• Data science, cybersecurity, AI
• Cybersecurity risks
• Security of autonomous vehicles AI systems
• The Trust factor
• Legal framework
• UAE: Established a regulation Lab (RegLab)
• Provide safe testing environment for new technologies
• Setting up an example for other countries to follow
20. “We are proud of the UAE contribution to
humanity’s journey of progress, and its
transition to a future driven by new
advanced technologies. We are working
hard to equip future generations with the
skills that will be required in the future”.
Let us be part of becoming the world’s most prepared country for Artificial Intelligence.
H.H. Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, vice president of UAE
attending the opening session of the annual meeting of the global future
councils in Dubai, November 2018
Editor's Notes
- A good description of how important AI will be to us is the quote by Andrew Ng, a former chief scientist at Baido,, and adjunct professor at Stansford University.
The second industrial revolution was about electrifying the world and how electricity transformed the world in transportation, manufuctring, agriculture, health care, and so on. Today AI is expected to start an equally large transformation on many industries. transportation and the autonomous vehicles, health care and identification of tumers, manufacturing and the use of robotics, speech recognition, language translation.
The IMF pegged oil’s contribution to GDP growth in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) at 34 percent.
According to the source, the data are ILO estimates. In 2017, the estimated youth unemployment rate in the United Arab Emirates was at 5.07 percent
On July 20, The Chineese state council issued a strategy for China: New Generation artificial Intelligence development plan and has a goal that by 2030, China leads the world in AI. s China declares its intentions to pursue a “first-mover advantage” to become “the world’s primary AI innovation center” by 2030
in July 2017, China published a comprehensive national strategy worth $150 billion to make the country the global leader in the field by 2030.
- In June 2017, Japan released an AI strategy with a three-phase roadmap towards AI industrialisation based on the country's existing strengths and the problems it faces.
- The effect of AI is going to be so pivotal to all businesses over the next decade that PwC estimate it will boost the UAE economy by 14% in GDP – or a massive $96 billion.
Gross Value Add GVA is a close a proximation of the GDP
Any discussion of AI and growth must begin by looking at the role of new technologies in the economy, particularly as they affect productivity. Traditional models look at capital and labor – “factors of production” – as the key drivers of economic growth. In these models, economic growth attributable to innovation and new technologies is captured in “total factor productivity
AI is a capital-labor hybrid, able to replicate work activities at a much greater scale and speed, often well beyond human capabilities
the pair of graphs on the
left shows AI’s impact on total GVA; the pair on the right, the impact on the growth rate. The two growth scenarios depicted for each country are a “baseline” (business as usual) scenario, that is, with no AI effect, and an “AI steady state” scenario illustrating the potential effect of adding AI as a new factor of production.
Three channels of growth:
Intelligent automation: it can create new virtual workforce using chatbots to improve customer interaction and robots to do complex and precise tasks
Labor and capital agumentation: it can complement and enhances the skills and abilities of existing workforce and physical capital. The case of using AI to assist paralegal in their job to cut time to find relavent information. Also, helping doctors to diagnose cancer using IBM Watson oncology and suggest treatment options.
Innovation diffusion: drives innovation in the economy
Accenture analysis shows that some current functions in the industry – such as bank
tellers, loan officers, mortgage brokers, claim processors, underwriters and other routine white-collar office jobs – can all be usefully augmented with AI and machine learning.
- Ajay Agrawal the founder of the Creative Destruction Lab, home to the greatest concentration of AI start-ups on the planet.
- Prediction: taking information you have to generate information you don’t have
Price prediction allows dynamic pricing to give flexibility to adjust pricing to respond to market demand
- HR analytics or called people analytics
Two things happen:
- When economists look at A.I. they see something very different. Economist Ajay Agrawal explains: "What economists bring to the conversation is that they are able to look at a fascinating technology like artificial intelligence and strip all the fun and wizardry out of it and reduce A.I. down to a single question, which is, 'What does this technology reduce the cost of
In October 2016, Otto and Budweiser completed the worlds first shipment by self-driving truck. The truck drove itself for almost 200 km from fort Collins to colardo springs. The driver was out of the drivers seat during the entire 120 mile journey.
Amazon claims that number of employments increased globally as new facilities and warehouses are open.
Amazon system provide productivity gain and reduce cost. In Manchester warehouse, Amazon has 2500 robots installed. Productivity gain about 5 times
Wordsmith is essentially an AI that can auto generate articles and natural language reports from large data sets
When dealing with large amounts of data, Automated Insights’ Wordsmith technology allows writers to focus on being creative by using AI to auto-generate the first version of their story for them. The technology has already been used by the Associated Press and Yahoo! to auto-generate data heavy articles. Now, users can sign up to access the beta for the public version of Wordsmith, with an official release planned on January.
Ultimately, the Wordsmith platform another tool to help writers.
- In other words, AI is the ability of machines to use algorithms to learn from data, and use what has been learned to make decisions like human would
- AI don’t need to take break or rest and they can analyze massive volume of information all at once
- Because of the ability of AI systems to learn and make decisions, AI systems can accomplish many of the tasks that were reserved for humans.
Solving complex problems difficult for traditional computing methos
AI implementation is happening at such a rapid pace that we can not keep up with and only very few understand its implication on the world. These will generate a number of challenges
It is hard to imagine the sheer number of things that AI will be able to improve, transform or create that will cover all areas of life
Legal implications world wide: laws and regulation need to be updated to incorporate the newly trends of AI era, especially, privacy laws, new policies need to be establish for jobs …etc
Ethical development: ethical aspect of this technology is important to encourage companies to be ethical for developing AI solutions to better serve humanity and improve standard of living around the world. These polices are needed sooner than later
- To boost government performance and efficiency.
government workers can save huge amounts of time by automating basic, repetitive tasks, like data entry and analysis. According to a report from Deloitte entitled Ai-Augmented Government, automation measures could save the federal government over 96.7 million man-hours and over $3.3 billion annually in the U.S. alone.
50% saving to government: process automation is expected to reduce wasted time, cutting paperwork,
- MoU signed at April 2018 between the Minister of AI and Oxford University to train Emaratis in AI. The three-year memo stipulates the implementation of three training programmes in cooperation with the UAE Council for Artificial Intelligence and Oxford University through a series of specialized AI-oriented workshops.
- RTA autonomous vehicle strategy
- A platform for international dialogue on AI to facilitate policy recommendations and create a roadmap for adoption
- Deployment of AI in transportation, healthcare, energy, finance, and legal syste
Dubai Police has announced their strategic plan for AI
Preparing people for change on the job landscape by raising awareness on these new jobs and develop people’s sills through training programs
Remind me of a book called enchanted objects by David Rose, in which a time will come where people will be wearing eye lenses that help better understand the world they see!
- “Shehab” is an automated chat robot that provides support to more than 100K customers. It adopts AI when interacting with customers.
Received more than 4000 calls in the first month when it is launched.
The robot pharmacist can store up to 35000 medinces and dispenses around 12 prescriptions per minute, reducing waiting time and eliminate human error. DHA will install robot pharmacists in all DHA hospitals. This help reducing number of pharmacists. The pharmacist role still exist to interact with people and give them instruction of how to use the medication.
A debate and polarized views.
AI will not change the job market, not at least in the near future, but it will does on the long run. It will change the nature of work, job losses in certain industries, especially in roles with manual and repetitive tasks, and will be offset by new jobs that will be performed by a hybrib: human-machines.
- According to the Forum’s Future of Jobs report, some jobs will be wiped out, others will be in high demand, but all in all, around 5 million jobs will be lost.
Already jobs exist now that had never been heard of five years ago: the role of data scientist, which is in huge demand, is one example.
Other jobs will start to require skills not previously associated with them.
Data analytics requires a combination of business and technical skills to perform the analysis and interpret the results in order to provide meaningful insights.
Companies will face an increasing trends for domain experts: retail analysts, engineers, accountants and others who know how to prepare and contextualize data. Organizations they will need ways to train these employees in the specific data skills they need
- Geoff Mulgan CBE, said at the event that plenty of new jobs will also be created as a result. Jobs that rely on human interaction and are often provided by the public sector – carers, teachers, etc.
AI is expected to remove many jobs in the service industry but will create more jobs in high tech roles that involve managing and utilizing data
Humans in these roles will complement the tasks performed by the cognitive technology, ensuring the work of machine both effective and responsible, that it is fair, transparent, and auditable.
At one end of the spectrum, trainers help natural-language processors and language translators make fewer errors. At the other end, they teach AI algorithms how to mimic human behaviors.
Customer service chatbots, for example, need to be trained to detect the complexities and subtleties of human communication. Yahoo Inc. is trying to teach its language processing system that people do not always literally mean what they say. Thus far, Yahoo engineers have developed an algorithm that can detect sarcasm on social media and websites with an accuracy of at least 80%.
Consider, then, the job of “empathy trainer” — individuals who will teach AI systems to show compassion
the forensics analyst needs to have the proper training and skills to perform detailed autopsies and explain their results.
for example, an AI system for credit approval was discriminating against people in certain professions or specific geographic areas. Other biases might be subtler — for example, a search algorithm that responds with images of only white women when someone queries “loving grandmother.” The ethics compliance manager could work with an algorithm forensics analyst to uncover the underlying reasons for such results and then implement the appropriate fixes.
Due to AI and robotics
The automation economy
Software used to predict future criminals showed bias against black people
AI systems are making decisions in a variety of industries today -- or will be doing so in the near future -- that could have an impact on virtually everything they touch. "But the reality is that we don't yet have the standards in place to govern what's acceptable and what's not.
Autonomous vehicles provide an example. "They're sure to be involved in accidents that cause damage or injury, just like human drivers today," Biltz said. "The difference is that we have a clear understanding for defining fault and blame for human drivers, and that doesn't yet exist for AI.“
Bias: The question is here what causes these drawbacks when AI is based on algorithms which seem to be pretty neutral? The answer lies in the fact that algorithms are built and maintained by humans, who in turn are biased by nature.
The UAE president issued a law to allow the cabinet to grant licenses for future technologies.
The regulation lab provides safe testing environment for new technologies which will help to establish future laws about their use. The lab will be launched in January 2019