On the sidelines of LEAP23, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has enhanced its game-changer status in the global data and artificial intelligence (AI) sectors with the opening installment of DeepFest, held in partnership with the Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA).
The inaugural DeepFest has gathered drivers of the global AI ecosystem to unveil multi-sector initiatives, along with a conference program under the theme AI Beyond Imagination, which homes in on AI implementation in areas such as clean tech, metaverse, women in technology and robotics.
Hiroshi Ishiguro, the director of the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory at Japan’s Osaka University, has been pioneering advancement in humanlike robotics since 1997 and creating realistic androids for over 15 years. He presented his own virtual twin, Geminoid HI-1, on stage at DeepFest.
This display is a testimony to the work being done in line with the future vision of a human-robot symbiotic society.
“By 2050, we want to realise a society in which people are free from the constraints of the body, brain, space and time. The technology is being developed already; with our automated robotic tech, we can create avatars that anyone can use easily. I believe we can create avatars that will allow anyone — from children to the elderly and everyone in between — to play an active role in society. With avatars, I believe we can change the world. We can choose to work, study and socialize with real-life robotic or computer graphic (CG) avatars,” said Ishiguro.
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