/PRNewswire/ — A report by CRI Online:
The World Internet Conference Specialized Committee on Artificial Intelligence (the WICSC on AI)hosteda special forumunder the theme “Embodied AI: Leading a New Paradigm of AI Development”on March 3in Barcelona,during the Mobile World Congress.
The forum also featured a roundtable
Notable figuresaddressing the eventincluded Francis Gurry, vice-chair of the WIC and former director-general of the World Intellectual Property Organization; Mohamed Ben Amor, director general of the Arab Information and Communication Technologies Organization; and Lara Dewar, chief marketing officer of the GSMA.
Others who gavespeecheswere Schahram Dustdar, co-chair of the WIC SC on AI, a member of Academia Europaea and president of the International Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance; Zhang Dong, executive vice president of China Mobile; Nakul Duggal, executive vice president and group general manager at Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.; and Wang Xiang, senior vice president at ZTE.
The forumalsofeatured a roundtable moderated by John Higgins, co-lead of the Standards Program of the WIC SC on AI and chairman of the International AI Governance Association.It was participated by Liu Dong, director of China Future Internet Engineering Center and Internet Hall of Fame Inductee;Jayne Stancavage, vice president of policy and regulatory affairs at Intel Corporation; Emanuela Girardi, president of ADRA;and Qu Zhenbin, chief solutions architect for AI+ at Alibaba Cloud.
They discussed the opportunities and challengesemerging in theembodied AIindustry.
The participants agreed that embodied AIis rapidly transitioning from research and development to large-scale implementation andis now a key focusinAIdevelopment.
They stressed the importance of deepening international cooperation to foster a healthy, diverse and inclusive global industry ecosystemandbuild a securecollaborativegovernance framework. These efforts are crucial to developing safe and reliable embodied AI andensuringtechnological progressbenefitshumanity, they noted.
They expressed the hope that the WIC SC on AI would continue to play a vital role in building global consensus andcreatea shared, intelligent future.
The forum was attended by over 100 representatives, including WIC SC on AI members, WIC members and representatives from international organizations, government agencies and institutionsin theembodied AIfield.
SOURCE CRI Online
