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The International Digital Transformation Conference (IDTC) aims to explore the latest trends, challenges, and opportunities in digital transformation and to provide a platform for government officials, universities, education institutes, private sector firms, and international IT companies to exchange ideas and insights.

THE SPEECH OF HIS EXCELLENCY THE MINISTER OF HIGHER EDUCATION AND SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH, PROF. DR. MAHMOUD ABU MOWAIS, AT THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

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20Jun
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Honorable audience, in higher education, there are three directions for digital education:

First: the use of artificial intelligence (AI) such as CHAT GPT and machine learning, and here these technologies are already being used to personalize learning experiences, adapt content to individual learning styles, and provide real-time feedback to both teachers and students. AI and machine learning can also help in automating administrative tasks and data analysis, which saves teachers valuable time to focus on teaching.

Second: the use of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR), as both can create wonderful learning environments that simulate real-life situations and scenarios, and this can be especially useful in fields such as medicine and engineering.

Third, Gamification and Navigation, as Gamification has gained great popularity in recent years, and involves applying game design principles to learning experiences, making them more attractive.

 

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Artificial intelligence is capable of improving people's lives and addressing the major challenges facing the society, but at the same time it is also capable of dramatically increasing risks to security and safety, violating civil rights and privacy, affecting human labor, and unequal opportunities, and this leads to increasing inequality.

The most important risk of artificial intelligence is that it becomes smarter than us, because our human brains can solve equations and drive cars thanks to the talent for storing information and devising solutions to problems, and we have nearly 86 billion neurons in our skulls and brains.

On the contrary, the technology behind the artificial intelligence program, for example (Chat GPT), is characterized by between 500 billion and trillion communication cells, which puts it in a very advanced place compared to humans. Therefore, artificial intelligence models know hundreds of times more than humans, and they are enormously able to learn quickly, which is known as the control problem.

Therefore, it is important to establish clear guidelines and regulations to ensure that AI systems are designed safely and their outputs are controlled to check for any signs of bias or abuse.

 

 

In conclusion, let me ask, is AI a goal or a means?

What is the difference between digitization and digital transformation?

Where are we from digital entrepreneurship and where to be our universities?

I hope this conference will come up with recommendations that answer these questions, and contribute to strengthening and developing the system of education, higher education and scientific research based on contemporary technology.

 

Long live Palestine,

Peace, mercy and blessings of Allah be upon you

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