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Pakistan Must Position Itself to Benefit from AI, Automation, and Bio-engineering or Risk Losing Out (Sir Syed Ahmed Khan Lecture: Key Messages)

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  • Mahboob Mahmood

    (CEO, Knowledge Platform.)

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Technology is progressing very rapidly and becoming central in our lives. It took IBM over 20 years to develop a program to beat the reigning chess master of the time. It took three years to develop a computer champion of the 300 times more complex Chinese game the ‘Go’. Then it took only seven months for a computer AI program, developed with no knowledge of the game or its rules, to beat the old ‘Go’. An AI-based program, which is purely local, has been developed to help children learn. The program is called “Parhai Buddy”. We need to realise that AI, automation, and bioengineering are all coming together soon, and Pakistan must position itself to benefit or risk losing out. What we see today in terms of work, education or learning is changing rapidly.

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  • Mahboob Mahmood, 2022. "Pakistan Must Position Itself to Benefit from AI, Automation, and Bio-engineering or Risk Losing Out (Sir Syed Ahmed Khan Lecture: Key Messages)," The Pakistan Development Review, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, vol. 61(1), pages 113-114.
    • Handle: RePEc:pid:journl:v:61:y:2022:i:1:p:113-114
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