Intelligent Assistants and AI in the UAE

Flashcards about Intelligent Assistants, AI concepts, and the UAE's AI strategy.

What is an Intelligent Assistant?

Software applications that use artificial intelligence to perform tasks or services based on user commands or questions.

What are the Key Features of Intelligent Assistants?

Automates repetitive tasks and provides information, understands and processes spoken language, learns user preferences, and integrates with various applications and devices.

What is an Intelligent Virtual Assistant?

Software-based assistants that interact with users in a conversational manner, primarily through voice or text interfaces.

What are the Key Features of Intelligent Virtual Assistants?

Conversational interface, context awareness, task management, and learning and adaptation.

How do Intelligent Assistants Collect User Data?

Wake words and continuous listening.

How do Intelligent Assistants Understand Requests?

Voice recording, data transmission, voice recognition, natural language processing (NLP), machine learning algorithms, and task execution.

What is Amazon Alexa?

A cloud-based voice assistant by Amazon, integrated into over 100 million devices.

What are the Components of Natural Language Processing (NLP)?

Syntax, semantics, and pragmatics.

What is the Process of Speech Recognition?

Audio input, preprocessing, feature extraction, and decoding.

How do AI Models Analyze and Interpret User Intent?

Identifies the user’s objective and extracts key details from the user’s input.

How are AI Models Used in Action?

Learn from historical data to predict and understand user intentions, simulate the human brain to enhance comprehension, and evaluate the entire conversation context.

What is an Ontology?

A formal representation of a set of concepts within a domain and the relationships between those concepts.

What is a Knowledge Graph?

A network of real-world entities and the relationships between them, stored in a graph database.

What is Contextual Understanding?

The AI's ability to grasp the context in which data appears, enhancing its relevance and accuracy.

How do AI (Intelligent Assistants) use ontologies and knowledge graphs?

To store, organize, and retrieve knowledge.

What are some Amazon Tools for Intelligent Assistants?

Amazon Transcribe, Amazon Lex, Amazon Weather Service API, and Amazon Polly.

What is a Smart Home Virtual Assistant?

A system where a virtual assistant helps manage and control various devices and functions in a home through voice commands or a smartphone app.

What is Shopping Virtual Assistance?

A digital tool that uses AI and machine learning to assist users in navigating online shopping environments.

What are the key functionalities of a shopping virtual assistant?

Product recommendations, price comparison, voice-activated shopping, and seamless checkout.

What is a Virtual Intelligent Assistant for Everyday Student Life?

Helps students efficiently manage their schedules, streamline academic tasks, and assist in day-to-day activities.

What is Data in the AI Decision-Making Pipeline?

Data comes from various sources, such as sensors, social media, and online transactions; can be structured or unstructured.

What is Data Storage?

Magnetic, optical, or mechanical media that records and preserves digital information for ongoing or future operations.

What is Data Processing?

Cleaning, transforming, and organizing data to ensure it is suitable for analysis by AI algorithms.

How do Humans and Machines Learn Patterns?

Humans through sensory experiences and repeated exposure; machines through data and algorithms.

What are the stages of student preparation for exam?

Training (answers are given) and Testing (answers are hidden from students).

How a machine learning model is trained and tested?

Training examples are collected and prepared along with related distinctive features of each, then the trained machine learning model is tested using hidden test examples.

What is Classification?

The process of predicting the category of an object based on its features.

What is Regression?

Helps us predict continuous values or numbers.

Supervised vs. Unsupervised Learning

Supervised is like learning with a teacher and unsupervised is like exploring without a map.

What are Association Rules?

Used to discover interesting relationships, patterns, or associations among a set of items in large databases.

What is Strategy?

A set of deliberate actions designed to achieve a long-term or overall goal.

Why is a national strategy for AI needed?

Economic competitiveness, innovation and research, ethics and regulation, education and workforce development, infrastructure and resources, public trust and engagement, and global collaboration and standards.

What is the UAE Vision for AI?

To become one of the leading nations in AI by 2031.

Who is the UAE Minister for AI, Digital Economy and Remote Work Applications?

His Excellency Omar Sultan Al Olama.

What are some of the UAE AI-related Initiatives?

UAE Strategy for Artificial Intelligence, CEO for Artificial Intelligence, UAE Council for Artificial Intelligence, National Program for Artificial Intelligence, and Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Technology Council.

How is AI being used in various sectors in the UAE?

Reduce accidents and cut operational costs, minimize chronic and dangerous diseases, help conduct accurate experiments, manage facilities, provide water sources, increase productivity, cut costs and enhance desire for education, increase forestation rate, reduce accidents/jams and draw effective traffic policies.

What are the responsibilities of the CEO for AI in the UAE?

Strategic planning for AI, promoting best practices in AI, adopting AI across the entity's units and projects, acting as an AI advisor, establishing governance frameworks, raising awareness about AI activities, and enhancing individuals' competencies in AI fields.

What are the tasks of the UAE Council for Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain?

Proposing policies to create an AI-friendly ecosystem, advance research in the sector, and promote collaboration between the public and private sectors to accelerate the adoption of AI.

What is the AI Powered Government Award in the UAE?

To recognize entities with top use cases in streamlining, expanding and improving government services through AI-powered solutions.

What is the First Bachelor Degree in Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the UAE?

The program started at the British University in Dubai to educate the young generation to implement AI technologies across all sectors of life and is now hosted at Birmingham University, Dubai.

What is the UAE AI Camp?

Empowering high school students, university students and government executives to lead AI and transform it into a strategic power that supports the economy.

What are the responsibilities of the Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Technology Council (AIATC)?

Guides policies and strategies for research and investments in artificial intelligence (AI) and future technology in Abu Dhabi.

What are the AI Integration Requirements in Public Sector?

Clear Objectives and Strategy, Technology Infrastructure, Skilled Workforce and Training, Regulatory and Legal Frameworks, Data Management and Quality, Public Trust and Transparency.

What is the world’s first dedicated AI university?

Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence.

What is Jais?

An open-source bilingual Arabic-English large language model, similar to OpenAI ChatGPT; developed by Inception, a unit of Abu Dhabi AI company G42, Mohammed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence and Silicon Valley-based Cerebras Systems.