In Southeast Asia, the adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies stood at 14-percent in 2018, a marked increase from the 8 percent in the previous year.

The use of AI will only trend upwards as organizations turn to this technology to plug the skills gap created by the digital transformation of traditional industries. This is set against the backdrop of a potential talent deficit of 47 million workers across Asia Pacific by 2030.

As AI becomes mainstream, today’s AI capabilities will open up to more general uses, otherwise known as Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Once this happens, there will be fewer tasks which humans can perform more efficiently or economically. The unique economic value of humans will then be restricted to special cases like psychological therapy, entertainment and arts or roles that require human engagement or interaction to deliver value.

Decentralized marketplace for Artificial Intelligence (AI) SingularityNET is in full swing to discuss the business value of Artificial Intelligence. Their CEO Ben Goertzel will be one of the speaker of the upcoming ConnecTech Asia 2019 Summit, which will be held on June 18 to 20 at the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore.

Goertzel also serves as Chairman of the Artificial General Intelligence Society, the OpenCog Foundation, the Decentralized AI Alliance and the futurist nonprofit Humanity.

Goertzel is one of the world’s foremost experts in Artificial General Intelligence, a sub field of AI oriented toward creating thinking machines with general cognitive capability at the human level and beyond.

He also has decades of expertise applying AI to practical problems in areas ranging from natural language processing and data mining to robotics, video gaming, national security and bioinformatics.

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