Why AIDevNepal is working on a mission of “AI Research Hub” in Nepal
Nepal is full of natural beauty. Not only beauty but also the resources-(human resources, and natural resource). Its geography is being able to give the birth to Gurkhas, who are well known for strongest and talented fighter in the world. Science says whenever the speed is high, the energy is high . The speed of water is highest in Nepal. So if we properly mobilized these resource then no one will be in rank one except us. The Research and AI plays an important role for shaping resources into development.
It is well recorded by now that the focal point for job creation has to be around people and knowledge. The old reliable industries –health and medicine, agriculture, marketing,art and craft,education,music, manufacturing, construction — are important in their own right, but cannot carry the economy into the future. Instead we need to shape new economic forces that build on our innovative abilities.
The future we desire is projected to be in knowledge- and technology-intensive industries such as life sciences, green technologies, agrifood and Artificial intelligence. In each of these areas the concentration and critical mass of expertise, the availability and development of cutting-edge technology platforms, and the presence of a supportive policy and legislative framework for innovation will be key determinants of competitiveness and success.
This is a global deep pockets game where the intensity of the competition is fierce and heedless of local sensitivities, where top talent is highly mobile and where confidence is an essential ingredient.
In that context the emerging debate about the direction of research and development activity in science and technology and the focus of nations investment in same is worth dwelling on. It may seem like a philosophical debate among a narrow group that are ultimately to some degree competing with each other but it is actually a lot more important than that.
Artificial Intelligence or AI in general refers to the science of computers developing intelligence like humans. Basically, it is technology that’ll allow computers to do some simplistic stuff that humans can do.
As technology improves , we as a race are becoming increasingly impatient. While typing emails. we used to get name suggestions before typing the whole name. When using our smartphones , we prefer talking instead of typing. AI will be most useful in getting computers and robots to do stuff that’s possibly too dangerous for humans. Check out Boston Dynamics , a company owned by Google, that has used AI to make robots replicate animal movements and navigate weird terrains. Think of a forest fire , and what we can potentially achieve by making a robot access areas that’s not possible for humans.
In Healthcare, trillion dollar industry continues to find applications in every new technology. There are so many rural areas such as manang , mustang, darchula with no access to doctors and basic diagnostic healthcare. Imagine what could potentially happen if we’re able to teach computers to diagnose simple ailments in humans. Some work on this periphery is potentially being taken up by IBM Watson Health. It’s still in extremely nascent stages though. Some applications where we can find the applications of AI are listed below.
AI For Agriculture:
to track and predict various environmental impacts on crop yield such as weather changes.
Use of Agricultural robots.
Crop and Soil Monitoring
AI For Banking and Finance:
Automatic detection of missing and incorrect transactions
Virus and intrusion detection and controlling over the banking system.
Implementations of KYC .
Audit
Share market and share price prediction.
AI For Crime control and natural disaster control
Prediction of Suicide.
Prediction of theft and robbery.
Fake account detection in any social media.
Possible crisis prediction and management system on the natural disasters.
Earthquake prediction system
Flood predictions system
Fire Alarm .
AI for Medicine and health :
Detection of overdose or underdose of medicine by symptoms of patients.
Cancer detection system
Drone Carrying medicine to remote areas where there is physically difficult to deliver medicines.
Disease recognition ( Health: Diagnostic care… Automatically classifying image data, such as scans, x-rays, etc. )
Drug discovery
Mining medical records
Designing treatment plans
AI for Business and marketing:
Product recommendation
Auditing
Programmatic Advertising
Speech / Text Recognition (Conversational Commerce)
AI for Traffic and Transportations:
Traffic light using computer vision ( control of traffic in the absence of traffic police , decision of traffic signal by analyzing the volume of traffic rather than timing , i mean deep video analysis. )
Nepali vehicle number plate recognition : It’s possible we can write an abstract for it .
Short path finding for fuel saving in transportation
Traffic jam prediction.
AI for Tourism
To guide the tourist according to their destinations.
To recommend the places to visit according to their hobbies and interests.
To help them in finding the hotels and homestays.
Chatbots helps in solving the problems of tourists.
AI for Cyber Security:
To detect and block the intrusion
Protection from leakage of information.
Protection from unauthorized login if accounts by notifying the actual user.
AI for good Budget allocation Prediction:
Cost estimation of any development project
Prediction of extra budget in providing government services
Priority evaluations of works.
AI for quality control:
Comparisons of same categories of products and services.
Survey of goods and services from social medias and evaluations.
Control of proportions of raw materials in industries
Use of imaging technology and butterfly network in quality control
Mining the industries records.
AI for entertainment :
Movies recommendations and Youtube video recommendations
Creative games
Intelligent simulators
AI for Education Training:
Treating students/trainee according to their individuality
Content intelligence and pattern intelligence
Intelligent method of teaching.
AI for Smart city:
Vehicle management
Intelligent power/electricity management and leakage control
Corruption control
Smart safety
Smart security
Improving infrastructure and optimizing the use of these resources.
In conclusions the “AI and Research” is a tool for solving the problem of every sectors with reliable, unbiased and optimized way.
