The main theme of Vietnam International Digital Week 2024 this year is virtual assistants: Personal virtual assistants and private virtual assistants, powered by AI. AI is the core technology of the fourth industrial revolution. It is like the steam engine of the first industrial revolution, the generator of the second industrial revolution and the personal computer of the third industrial revolution. But what is the most important application of AI is still a big question. The world is still searching. Virtual assistants may be the most important application of AI. Will personal virtual assistants become like personal computers? Virtual assistants can be personal virtual assistants for each person, or they can be private virtual assistants for each organization.

Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung speaks at International Digital Week 2024. Photo: Le Anh Dung

Virtual assistants help each of us do our jobs better, freeing us from uncreative, laborious and time-consuming tasks, so that humans can focus on what they do best: creativity. The more data AI has, the smarter it is, while the less data humans have, the smarter they are. So, AI focuses on what it does best: processing data, while humans focus on what they do best: creativity. Each individual and each organization must build their own virtual assistant, based on their own data and knowledge, and for their own use. Then, AI is ours, not someone else's, and therefore, we will trust our own AI. AI used separately will not make us the same, but will make us more different. Difference is the reason for each person's existence. Shared AI is not created by us, but by others, and so before it can be widely used, it must be evaluated and adhere to public standards. As we use shared AI, we tend to become more like each other. So private AI and shared AI are two sides of the same coin, coexisting. When developing virtual assistants, technology companies and users have two different roles. Technology companies provide technology platforms, AI engines, and support tools to teach virtual assistants. Users input their data, their knowledge, and teach virtual assistants. It's like teaching their own children. Because of this separation, we don't depend on technology companies. We create our own AI. When we are alive, virtual assistants are our helpers, when we die, virtual assistants are us and continue to live. Humans will become immortal. Wealth is time multiplied by intelligence. Time is limited, intelligence is infinite. And intelligence can be empowered by AI. The wealth of each individual, each organization, each country will therefore increase. AI is new to all of us, so cooperation is the best way to develop together. Vietnam considers open source AI as a way to develop AI sustainably. Open source creates trust. Open source creates global development instead of technology monopoly. Vietnam is drafting a law to recognize the basic principles of AI, such as AI is to serve human prosperity and happiness, must ensure transparency and explainability, accountability, fairness and non-discrimination, respect for ethical values ​​and human rights, protect privacy, inclusive access, ensure security and confidentiality, control, risk-based management and responsible innovation. Virtual assistants have been developed and exploited quite successfully in many countries. In this year's International Digital Week program, we will have the opportunity to directly exchange, share and discuss with Ministers, representatives of management agencies of countries, international organizations, consulting companies, and leading businesses in this field. Vietnam has and will continue to prioritize promoting regional and international cooperation initiatives in the fields of digital technology, digital transformation and digital economy, in which priority will be given to cooperation programs on AI, development and use of virtual assistants. The annual International Digital Week will be an opportunity for national regulatory agencies, international organizations, associations, and global digital businesses to discuss, share, and establish digital partnerships, joining hands to build a sustainable digital world. I would like to express my sincere thanks to the Ministers, Deputy Ministers, and leaders of regulatory agencies, international organizations, associations, and businesses from 30 countries and international organizations for taking the time to attend the International Digital Week 2024, to review and discuss regional and international cooperation initiatives on artificial intelligence in general and virtual assistants in particular. I would like to express my sincere thanks to Quang Ninh province for supporting and coordinating with the Ministry of Information and Communications in organizing this important event.

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