Author: Ashik Ahmed

A number of examples are cited in the literature; most recently, Indian billionaire, and chairman of Bharti Enterprises, Sunil Bharti Mittal narrated how his company nearly lost millions of dollars to an AI-powered scam in Dubai. In the incident, Mittal created an AI clone of his voice and used it to con a senior executive at the firm into releasing a major amount of cash. Mittal himself once narrated the incident during the NDTV World Summit where he said that the fraudster had even mastered his voice. It was almost perfect and Mittal froze when he listened to the recording…

To support and advance the UAE’s AI positioning, UAE’s premier university United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) has announced the official commencement of its Artificial Intelligence Agenda 2025-2031. The launch event was organized on 22 nd October, 2024 and was witnessed by important personalities like Zaki Anwar Nusseibeh, Cultural Advisor to the UAE President and Chancellor of UAE University and other academics and administrative personnel of UAE university. Speaking at the address, Nusseibeh also outlined this initiative falls in line with the UAE’s more comprehensive AI strategy recently approved by the UAE Cabinet. On this note, the agenda increases the UAEU’s…

New Travel Without Borders at Dubai Airport will replace standard control with smart gates and AI and eliminate passport control stations. Under this system, passengers will not be required to disembark to allow checks on their documents while in the airport. Instead, the airport will switch on the artificial intelligence-powered facial recognition cameras that will follow passengers through their journey from entry into the airport until they are aboard the flight. Speaking to this writer, Khaled bin Madia Al Falasi, Deputy Assistant Director for Smart Services at Dubai’s General Directorate of Residency and Foreigners Affairs said this new system is…

A first of its kind application, Places UAE, is now available which will revolutionize the way people get to know about the food locations in UAE.. Using the latest artificial intelligence, it provides extraordinary dining options for over 10,000 restaurants, bars, cafés, and so forth to facilitate to find the right place among the crowded city in terms of food destination. The application has one main spotlight to it and that is the search option using artificial intelligence that allows people to search without imposing any set conditions. It overcomes the constrains of common filters, making the search for dining…

At the Global Future Councils 2024 in Dubai, Dr. Erik Brynjolfsson, a professor of Stanford University, was convinced that artificial intelligence (AI) does not come for the job but to help workers. In the “Keeping AI on Track” session, Dr. Brynjolfsson of the Digital Economy Lab, Stanford, described AI as the most disruptive technology since the Industrial Revolution. But he stressed that he means augmentation with AI rather than completing work with it. He went further on to say that most employees perform several tasks, and while AI performs optimally in some of these tasks, other tasks require human input.…

Dubai can already boast of its progressive thinking and steady growth, but by the mid of the century the changes that are to happen there will redefine the very concept of the city. Its population is forecast to reach 7.8m – more than current Sydney – the government has unveiled a masterplan for the emirate over the next 16 years. The vision of the Dubai 2040 depicted here is one of space-age transport, vast metropolis, and large-scale environmentalism. A Large and a Palm Payment for a Mega Metro The Dubai Metro will be expanded greatly, with a total length of…

Speaking to the issue of job automation during the Global Future Councils conference in Dubai in 2024, Stanford University’s Dr. Erik Brynjolfsson argued that popular viewpoints on AI-related job displacement are misconceptions. He stressed that AI rather should be regarded as an assistant which helps workers with particular tasks and does not take a whole occupation. At a panel discussion dubbed “Keeping AI on Track” Dr. Brynjolfsson described AI as the most transformative technology since the Wattle steam engine and remarked on its capacity to bring change across the sectors that propel improvement. AI is referred to as a GPT…

Dubai’s Emirati engineers are set to build the MBR Explorer a spacecraft that is set to orbit the belt between Mars and Jupiter for seven years. This development comes as part of the Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt (EMA), which has recently achieved a major milestone: last permission on craft design. MBR Explorer weighing 2,300 kg will be launched in 2028 to cover a distance of five billion kilometers, which will make it go around six asteroids before it drops a lander on the seventh. Its mission will provide useful information about the asteroid belt, and thus increase the…

In a roundtable discussion at GITEX Global 2024, Peng Xiao, Group CEO for the UAE-based G42, highlighted the nation’s rising place in AI. Founded by Wang Xingjie, G42 is a powerhouse for AI innovation in the region backed by Microsoft. Xiao attributed this to UAE’s activities, such as Ministry of Artificial Intelligence and Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence initiatives. He pointed out that these developments have turned the UAE from the country that used Artificial Intelligence to the country that adopts and innovates it. Most importantly, the country has pledged to harness Artificial Intelligence (AI) for the country’s…

In October 2024, at Gitex Global 2024, another one of the world’s largest technology exhibition and conference fair organized by Dubai World trade Center, withрип AI in entertainment emerged as the latest trend when Sheeraz Hasan showcased his Hollywood.ai and Bollywood.ai platforms to the tech world. This was a convergence of companies, startups with great talents, and those enthusiasts in the world of technology, addressing issues such as AI, 5G and smart city solutions. Both Hollywood.ai and Bollywood.ai belongs to Hasan, propelling the entertainment industry with the aim of creating disruptive content with AI and new methods of narrating a…