A professor of Iran's Tarbiat Modarres University has said that statistics show that 90 percent of the world’s data was created in the last 2 years and 3.7 billion people use the internet today.

Iran PressIran News: Ahmad Reza Sharafat who attended the 10th Knowledge and Information conference on Tuesday delivered his speech on the topic of artificial intelligence saying that it really is not possible to define the term 'intelligence' and that is why artificial intelligence was chosen since the 1950s.

He added:  "Artificial intelligence had great improvement since 2012 and actually it was a rebirth for these phenomena," Iran Press reported. 

"Artificial intelligence will not be able to do argumentation and summarization function, yet," he said.

The 10th Knowledge and Information conference was held at Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Center in Tehran with the attendance of the Deputy Ministry of Information and Communication Technology for Innovation.

The conference was held under the motto of 'Smart Iran' and seeks knowledge exchange between different universities and industries.

The 3-day conference began on Tuesday.   212/ 207

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