Hungary AI strategy ready, says minister

Hungary has prepared its Artificial Intelligence Strategy which addresses technical and human-sciences issues emerging from the evolution of AI, the innovation and technology minister said at Pannon University, in Veszprém, on Monday evening.

Artificial Intelligence raises a number of moral and social questions, one of which is to what extent will it overwhelm natural intelligence, László Palkovics said.

AI is emerging as part of the creative industry, and this raises the question of whether it should be considered a threat or an opportunity, the minister said.

“AI allows people to spend time on things with which they can create more value-added,” he said.

AI can be used in many areas from face recognition, health checks, polygraph tests, X-rays, noise indication of agricultural machine defects and self-driving vehicles to composing music and writing poems, he said.

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