In the last years, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has acquired a protagonic rol. The adoption of this technology is increasing thanks to the impressive growth in the amount of data, improvements in its analytical capacity and the birth of other complementary technologies such as machine learning and deep learning, affecting different areas of our daily lives. In this context, the Ministry of Sciences proposed a policy considered urgent to address: the adoption of a National Policy on Artificial Intelligence.

In 2019, a committee of experts in Artificial Intelligence was convened and a research process began in which more than 1,200 people from different areas participated, such as university academics, public and private sector proffesionals, lawyers, engineers, economists, communitactions people, among others. This group of experters created an AI Policy that would promote its development and regulate its uses in a legal and ethical manner. Its objective is to generate improvments in the citizens quality of life after the effect that the techonlogy has caused in the global economy and in the own way of human labor.

The study had three focal areas: enabling factors (the infrastrucuture that would allow development of AI), development and adoption (defining the actions to adopt Artificial Intelligence in our tasks), and ethics and economic impact (oriented to the benefit of people). Another of its goals is to bridge the gender gap regarding these technologies and begin to build a path  to change as a society,  together with AI, in the coming years. In addition,  the committee detected other development opportunities: Chile as a world data science center, ecosystem for  entrepreneurship and innovation,  inclusive technological revolution and more.

But the government is not the only one that has generated advances related to AI, national companies have also progress along with this technology. At Migtra, the solution Migtra Productivity uses Artificial Intelligence to estimate the arrival times of transport fleets (ETA service). The tool uses various variables (type of truck, driver profile, driving habits, among others) to increase the eficiency of  ground transportation fleets. This is how Migtra continues to generate new tools, together with IA, the improve safety and productivity in your fleets.

 

The document on the new AI policy can be reviewed in detail at

https://www.minciencia.gob.cl/legacy-files/borrador_politica_nacional_de_ia.pdf

 

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