AI emerges from the ivory tower to solve real-world problems

(July 2024) Artificial intelligence dominates the headlines, but much of the work in that field is largely theoretical. 

That’s why events such as Huawei’s 8th Annual ICT Competition, held recently in Shenzhen, China, are so valuable for young tech talent, says Dr. Otthein Herzog, a Professor of AI at Tongji University in Shanghai. 

In a new Transform Talks interview, Prof. Herzog tells Huawei Editor-in-Chief Gavin Allen that neural networks and Large Language Models are “knowledge gateways” that will help us solve some of the world’s toughest problems.     

“The bottleneck of AI was always to formalize the knowledge needed to solve problems,” Herzog says. “But today, we can take data – images, texts, maps, whatever – and the systems extract the knowledge from this input. It really opens up a new dimension of AI applications.”

The press release related to the recent ICT Competition is here.