On the morning of October 24, the Ministry of Information and Communications coordinated with the People's Committee of Ninh Binh province to organize a conference on "Data strategy for developing artificial intelligence applications and promoting digital transformation in Ninh Binh".

Speaking at the conference, Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Phan Tam said that the Party, State and Government have identified digital transformation as playing an important role in national development. In particular, digital transformation is not simply a supporting tool, but a factor that profoundly changes production methods.

The productive force has a harmonious combination of humans and artificial intelligence (AI). Therefore, digital technology has become a basic productive force in the digital age, a new production tool. The application of digital technology also generates new resources: data.

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Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Phan Tam. Photo: Le Duong

According to Deputy Minister Phan Tam, digital technology helps improve the quality of labor, especially through AI. For the first time in the history of human development, a new group of technologies has strongly impacted all three main factors of the productive force: labor, tools and resources. Therefore, many countries have considered digital technology as a new basic productive force.

Regarding data, Deputy Minister Phan Tam said that it is a resource, a new land and needs a new management system to release value.

“In the future, most of the value will be created from data. The more data, especially the more different types of data, the greater the opportunity to create new value. The person who owns the data and the person who creates new value from the data are in many cases not the same. Therefore, building institutions to separate data ownership, value data assets, and divide benefits according to packaging is very important,” Mr. Tam emphasized.

Regarding artificial intelligence, according to Deputy Minister Phan Tam, we have experienced the extraordinary capabilities of artificial intelligence through famous products such as ChatGPT, Gemini... "How will Vietnam have to research and develop to take advantage of AI's capabilities?" , Deputy Minister Phan Tam asked.

According to Mr. Phan Tam, our potential is limited, it is difficult to create AI that can compete with famous products. Therefore, our orientation will be to develop narrow AI, specialized AI, private AI, internal AI of each organization and each individual.

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Delegates present at the conference. Photo: Le Duong

“Data is the raw material for training AI. Therefore, to accelerate the development of AI in Vietnam, let's use our own organizations' and individuals' data to develop AI applications. These AI applications will bring great, fast and practical values, helping to transform the operations of organizations, helping to make individuals and organizations smarter, helping to create new values, helping our country immediately solve immediate problems for development", Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Phan Tam shared.

Within the framework of the conference, delegates also discussed the topic of Data Strategy for AI application development. Accordingly, the units had presentations on "Data infrastructure deployment and the need for AI application in Healthcare"; "Opportunities and challenges in the new context: Artificial Intelligence (AI) and some recommendations"...