For his part, Data and AI Regional Lead at Microsoft Middle East Eng. Chady Haddad echoed in a similar statement to QNA that Artificial Intelligence (AI) plays a pivotal role in solving complex economic challenges, bringing a quantum leap in many businesses by improving enterprise performance and customer experience and developing forecasting and planning capabilities. They are also used in workplaces, home offices, academic institutions, research laboratories, and manufacturing facilities around the world to help improve and enhance the lives of all groups of society, from students, teachers, farmers, software developers to security professionals. AI is useful in various areas such as energy, health care, financial services, education, and others.
The world has witnessed a series of technological revolutions with the launch of computers, mobile phones, smartphones, the Internet, and the cloud each changing our world, our business, and our lives. Now, the AI revolution will move our world to a new unprecedented developmental era. The rapid development of Generative AI models will unlock more possibilities to enhance research, raise productivity, and facilitate innovation and creativity, he added.
AI's next phase will witness large AI models that help with tasks such as summarizing content, managing documents, and streamlining sales flows, extending to areas such as designing new molecules for drugs, writing texts, drawing pictures, composing music, deciphering codes and execute video clips, stressing that Microsoft is aware that AI will revolutionize our future and will change the course of our day-to-day life and work; therefore it must be used ethically and responsibly. Microsoft's policies and regulations in AI are designed in a way that considers the responsible and ethical use of AI technologies, Eng. Chady Haddad continued.
The Data and AI Regional Lead at Microsoft Middle East spoke about the company's interest in AI as the company has decades of experience in its research. In 2019, Microsoft partnered with OpenAI, the research lab behind chatbot and ChatGPT, and the Dall-E2 image generator, which converts language prompts into new images.
He also reviewed many of the programs adopted by the company in the AI field, as it adopted OpenAI's advanced AI capabilities within its products and services, such as the upgraded versions of the Edge browser and the Bing search engine, working as personal assistants using AI. In addition, the new Bing Image Creator tool allows users of the new AI-powered Bing search, Bing Chat, or the Edge browser to create creative images through descriptive texts. (MORE)
Source: Qatar News Agency