“If you think that artificial intelligence already knows you, wait for what comes next”

There was not a conference on the central stage of the Web Summit, this Tuesday, the first full-time day, that did not talk about artificial intelligence. Perhaps the conversation between Putin and Maduro’s opponents escaped this topic. But almost all the others, in a more or less in-depth way, covered the “hot topic” of the moment.

And based on the testimony of Linda Yao, vice-president of Lenovo, the procession continues in the churchyard.

“People will be amazed by the hyper-personalization that AI can bring. If everyone thinks that intelligence already knows you now, wait for what comes next”, he said.

Artificial intelligence was also the reason for the communication made by Microsoft president, Brad Smith, a regular presence at the Web Summit.

Smith considered that the world has already seen three industrial revolutions, first with steam, then with electricity and, later, with computers.

Brad Smith understands that artificial intelligence will be the engine of a new industrial revolution, which, however, will have different concerns.

“We have to recognize that we need to do something in this industrial revolution that people didn’t need to worry about before. We have to build an industrial revolution that is responsive to the needs of the planet,” said Brad Smith.

The Microsoft strongman recognizes that “we cannot afford to build ‘data centers’ and consume electricity without thinking about what it means for local communities, countries and Planet Earth”, he appealed.

But returning to artificial intelligence, stories of large companies that anticipate other applications using AI also came to the stage.

The president of Alibaba, a Chinese giant, a sales platform between companies, came to present a type of GPT Chat for business.

Questions are asked in natural language and, within seconds, the platform, called Accio, brings together offers and ideas.

Another presence was the executive president of Qualcomm, one of the most important chip production companies, who came to the Central Stage to show how “AI” and the ability to speak in natural language will change the way applications are designed.

Or tasks that currently require using three or four applications could be much simpler in the future. We simply talk to the cell phone and “it” (the phone) takes care of it.