10th conference on Knowledge and Information (IKT2019) kicks off

Tehran (IP)- The 10th conference on Knowledge and Information has kicked off in ICT (information and communication technology) center in Tehran with the attendance of deputy of technology and innovation of ministry of information and communication.

Iran Press/Iran News: The motto of this conference is "smart Iran" and it tries to convey knowledge from the universities to the industry.

Deputy of technology and innovation of ministry of information and communication, Sattart Hashemi states that the amount of data is increasing every day and the importance of data and calculation is undeniable for every one.

He added that 188 million emails are sent and 390 thousand applications are downloaded by each minute.

"The use of NPU (neural processing unit) in smart phone is highlighted nowadays, he noted.

He also elaborated on the effect of artificial intelligence in today’s lifestyle and said that transportation management is done in this way by the use of navigation applications.

"Also,artificial intelligence helps us  to cure liver failure and as we know the biggest center of liver transplant is located in shiraz,Iran," he said.

He also mentioned that we are really in lack of human resources in the field of artificial intelligence.

He summarised his speech by saying that machines learn as human learn, but the speed of learning process in machine is faster than human.

IKT2019 has started today and will last 3 days.

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