The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Enlargement of the images produced by this fake news technology, and the risk it poses, has been the focus of criticism in recent months.
In this regard, the John Davis, Director of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Public Sector for Latin America, Canada and the Caribbean“It’s absolutely right that we take a responsible approach to AI and it’s absolutely right that governments learn from it, but the most important thing is that governments better deliver the benefits of this technology because it’s really powerful and directly affects citizens.”
These reports have been released during this time AWS Summit 2023 en Washington DCThere he emphasized that “like all companies committed to creative AI, We take a responsible approach And we do our best to ensure that no inherent bias is inserted that could introduce inappropriate language or other inclusion, diversity, and equity-type biases.”
The area is “a work in progress, but I believe the more we can engage with governments and large corporations, the more we can work together. .”
Challenges in Latin America
In line with this, he argued that AI is a part of everything involved Digital transformation for companies and governments It is in this process that he sees challenges still present, such as access to existing infrastructure.
“The current challenges in this regard in Latin America are related to digital skills, because we see opportunities to train people interested in digitization,” he explained.
This was later reconfirmed Mark Peterson, Vice President, AWS Global Public Sector DivisionHe revealed that the Smart Factory Believers program, a joint venture with Deloitte and part of its CIC (Innovation Centers) program, will be expanded to public schools in the District of Columbia next fall.
While the focus is on the US, like other AWS projects and initiatives, it will expand to Latin America as well. For now, “this project will deliver tools Robotics, curriculum and support for educators at five middle schools, will help expand learning opportunities in science, technology, engineering and math and generate greater interest in related careers.
In that sense, Highlighted the progress of Brazil – a market that today leads the way in progress in public and private digitization. from being with 2022 presidential election, AWS was able to move more than one million data per minuteIt became clear that the cloud was necessary to assist in these processes, but for this to happen, the organization was working to build knowledge about cloud use.
“What we need to do now is to promote the benefits of having all the information in the cloud and how secure it is so that citizens and companies know,” he commented during the event, adding that as a company they are interested in knowledge and support. Training to understand everything related to digitization.
Digitization stage
Another challenge pointed out by the executive is related to the scale of digitization 75% of companies and governments in Latin America are at the adoption stage of cloud technology, which means there is still a lot of room for improvement.Being one of the main stimuli of knowledge.
Another 25% of companies using the cloud in the region require a policy the cloud Because “they understand that it will drive the digital transformation of companies, government agencies and citizens”.
