Despite already registering several years in the technological arena, the year 2023 has become the boom year for artificial intelligence. Companies like Google, Microsoft, and Meta are already competing for dominance in the market for this technology around the world and show that it will be a very close and competitive race in which even the governments of the countries are already seeking to form and take part in it.
In Venezuela, Despite the economic situation, the precariousness of public services and the delayed progress on the internet, the first steps have been taken to introduce the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI).one of them is the development of Sira, the “stellar presenter” created with AI to support the program “With Maduro +”led by President Nicolas Maduro himself.
However, according to a Yahoo Finance review, David Aragort, the digital security trainer of the Venezuelan NGO Redes Ayuda Venezuelamentioned that Venezuela is still “far behind” in AI developmentdue to the economic crisis, economic sanctions, and failures in public services such as electricity and the internet that limit the advancement of this technology in the country.
“If we are talking about the world that already has access to the internet, I would say that even at that level the impact that AI is going to have is still limited, at least for now, until it starts as a maturation process in which we go to realize what are the advantages that using these tools gives us for the work that we already do”Aragort mentioned.
For his part, Mariví Marín, director of the Venezuelan NGO ProBoxalso spoke about the subject and indicated that in Venezuela there is a gap in access to technology that suggests that the use of the Internet is a privilege and not a right.
“Somehow, access to the internet is understood more as a privilege than as a right and, furthermore, when you have a country in a humanitarian emergency, things like what happens on social networks, how it is manipulated or not, seems very far away. for the majority of the populationsaid.
In this sense, it should be noted that The Vice Minister for the Development of Information and Communication Technologies of the Ministry of Science and Technology, Gloria Carvalho, stated on April 20 that the country is in the “cutting edge of AI research and development”.
He also stressed that the AI had to be trained since, in his opinion, Artificial intelligences know more because of the information they have accumulated than because they are intelligent. “From Venezuela we are making great efforts to digitize our information”revealed Carvalho.
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