{"id":7164,"date":"2023-09-22T13:53:34","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T11:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.bart.sk\/en\/?p=7164"},"modified":"2024-01-25T12:40:57","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T11:40:57","slug":"take-away-slovakiatech-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bart.sk\/en\/take-away-slovakiatech-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"What did I take away from the SlovakiaTech conference?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>At the end of September, the international SlovakiaTech conference was held in Kulturpark for the fifth time. This time, the main topics of lectures were AI, security and green technologies. Since we&#8217;ve been trying to use AI to optimize our work at Crossuite for a long time, I chose several presentations on this topic from the program. Here, in my opinion, are the 5 most important observations that I take home from the conference:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AI is still just a tool. It isn&#8217;t meant to be a substitute for humans, just a way to increase work efficiency. Therefore, it should be used as your helper. Interesting fact: In April 2023, a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nber.org\/system\/files\/working_papers\/w31161\/w31161.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">study<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was carried out at MIT and Stanford which tracked <\/span><b>how much AI helps employees with different levels of knowledge<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. It turned out that <\/span><b>it doesn&#8217;t help the most qualified at all<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. &#8220;Low-skilled&#8221; employees, on the other hand, showed a 35 percent increase in productivity with the help of AI.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>2.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whether we like it or not, AI has forever changed teaching and the way assignments are completed and homework written. Just as a calculator or Google has changed the way we work, <\/span><b>with the advent of AI, education itself and the way they assign work to be done at home, must change<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. However, this topic has been discussed for a long time &#8211; as soon as in 2020, a series of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ajtyvit.sk\/barbora-dancova-blizke-stretnutia-s-umelou-inteligenciou\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">trainings<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for teachers was held under the guidance of teacher Zuzana Tk\u00e1\u010dov\u00e1, who also spoke during the discussion at SlovakiaTech. At the same time, <\/span><b>how AI can be used, for example, by personal assistants for children with special needs<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, was also discussed. I&#8217;m very curious where this will lead and how important documents will be written in the future, such as master&#8217;s theses, which ultimately decide on obtaining a degree.<\/span><br style=\"font-weight: 400;\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bart.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-6.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11177 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bart.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-6.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"3546\" height=\"2660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>3.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">People are aware that AI is also changing the perception of the concept of intellectual property. <\/span><b>The European Union has even developed the first regulations, the so-called <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europarl.europa.eu\/news\/en\/headlines\/society\/20230601STO93804\/eu-ai-act-first-regulation-on-artificial-intelligence\"><b>Plus AI Act,<\/b><\/a><b> which define what AI is and when its behavior is unacceptable.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> By the end of the year, the governments of the individual countries are to decide in what form they&#8217;ll incorporate this act into their laws. I think that this issue will also affect us, programmers. Although cases where artists <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2023\/08\/ai-art-copyright-ineligible.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">fought with AI for their rights<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are more publicized, court hearings on the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electropages.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/another-lawsuit-against-ai-ai-generated-code-illegal\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">legality of AI created codes<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> have already appeared.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>4.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Slovakia is going to use AI in spatial planning!<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> This was confirmed by 3 prominent figures of urbanism and innovation, Mi\u0161o Hladk\u00fd from Creative Industry Ko\u0161ice, Rado Mizera from Solved.fi and Pe\u0165o Breyl from the Regional Innovation Center. I&#8217;m looking forward to when it really gets moving.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>5.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AI can have a negative impact on the environment because it needs huge data centers with high water and energy consumption to process information. Some countries where these resources are scarce, are even fighting against their construction. <\/span><b>According to statistics, an average data center uses as much water as <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/algorithmwatch.org\/en\/protests-against-data-centers\/\"><b>3 ordinary hospitals<\/b><\/a><b>.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> For example, a Google data center planned in Chile, where there are often periods of several months without rain, requires 169 liters of water per second to function. Therefore, if AI is to be a global standard, these data centers must work on their efficiency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Bonus:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the conference, a practical demonstration was presented in which<\/span><b> AI was to select random people<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. It turned out that it practically <\/span><b>still prefers men<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> when choosing. And although the programmers tried to fix it, AI still found some hidden gender connection in the data. What I learned from this is that<\/span><b> AI can find in information even what a human would probably never find<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Whether this is an advantage or a disadvantage I cannot yet assess.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Lectures were mainly a great motivator for me. They forced me to think about AI beyond what I currently use it for, whether at home or at work. It&#8217;s also been confirmed to me that artificial intelligence won&#8217;t help me much when it comes to programming. I rather feel like things take me longer with it&#8230; But on the other hand, I can use AI in areas where I may not feel quite so sure. Anyway, I wonder where this new feature will take us. I believe that it&#8217;ll lead to a better future.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At the end of September, the international SlovakiaTech conference was held in Kulturpark for the fifth time. 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