Dr. Ammar Jalali Menesh, while explaining the obstacles to the developme of artificial ielligence in the coury, considered one of the importa obstacles to the developme of artificial ielligence in Iran to be the economic conditions and stated: On the one hand, the erepreneurial ecosystem in the fields of technology in Iran is small, and on the other hand, the level The income in the society is low, and considering that artificial ielligence is depende on processing facilities and hardware, it is considered a luxury item for our society; It means that only a small part of people can use its products and services. Therefore, perhaps the expectation of the market size of artificial ielligence products in advanced couries is not very realistic for Iran.
The deputy of Iran’s science and technology information in Irandak noted: Artificial ielligence is more than a pure product, it is an enabler and helps to improve the existing products and productions and increase their productivity, while our coury is weak in the production of technological products. As a result, the number of products that can be improved using artificial ielligence is also small.
This university lecturer considered the next obstacle to the developme of artificial ielligence in the coury to be the problem of universities not being the ceer of the problem and said: Universities do not pay atteion to the real applications of artificial ielligence, although Iran’s scieific productions in the field of artificial ielligence have high scieific value in some cases, but in most cases Items are not efficie. He coinued: The tools and algorithms that are developed in academic research are far from creating software, services and products that solve industry problems and have a domestic or iernational market.
The vice preside of Iran’s science and technology information stated in Irandak: Universities still do not have a problem-orieed approach. It is better to first define a real problem in the field of artificial ielligence, then theses, theses and researches in the university move towards it. Examples of these issues are reducing costs in urban manageme, iellige energy manageme, diagnosis and treatme systems using artificial ielligence, iellige urban and road traffic manageme, polluta manageme, and iellige environmeal manageme.
In response to a question about the governme’s support, Jalali Manesh said: “We are not looking for governme support, although it is unfair to say that the governme does not provide any support, even though the vice preside’s science and technology departme helps in holding eves and costs for institutions’ equipme. It does, but we get most of the capital needed for erepreneurial teams from private investors.
He coinued: “The most importa institution that is not helping us now is the university.” Unfortunately, universities operate in the field of artificial ielligence without ideity and direction, while if they are properly guided and supported and properly politicized, they can be a good starting poi for the production of products and services in the field of artificial ielligence. In fact, the pre-acceleration process of some erepreneurial teams happens in universities and the results of many theses and projects and work teams formed in the university can be the input of the erepreneurial ecosystem in the field of artificial ielligence.
Jalalimanesh stated: The first thing that the governme can do is to direct the university from this laxity and indifference to a problem-orieed one and strengthen the connection of the university with the market, investors and the erepreneurial ecosystem. The design of lessons and the mechanisms of teaching and research in the university should be changed and defined for the practical lessons of team projects that lead to product production. Because now, most of the specialized human resources are still trained in universities, and if they do not have skills and creativity, the coury’s erepreneurial ecosystem will suffer from a lack of human resources.
This lecturer of Amirkabir University noted: policymakers should give importance to the erepreneurial ecosystem in a real way, not in a theatrical way, simplify the written laws and regulations as much as possible and facilitate the processes and regulations rather than trying to financially support erepreneurship.
The promotion regulations or the systems that exist to evaluate universities do not pay atteion to the employme of studes, and in many cases, studes who are even first studes also have a job crisis. While an importa part of university evaluation indicators should be based on how much professors or university institutions coribute to the erepreneurial ecosystem and how real are the erepreneurial ecosystems in these universities?
He considered the need for these changes to converge all compones in universities and said: There is no alignme between the real needs of studes and the design of university systems. Professors should converge more and design common lesson plans in a way that leads to creating a team and solving a real problem. Instead of training studes who study, we should train studes with the skills to solve a real problem.
Addressing the families who still believe that if someone is the first stude, he will have a good future, he said: Studes and families should know that if a stude cannot solve a real problem, have real production and communicate with the business world and the market. slow, will not succeed.
In the coinuation of his speech, the vice preside of Iran’s science and technology information in Irandak poied to the work done in Irandak and said: In the last few years, we have created several laboratories, including the human-machine ieraction laboratory, and developed a product called “Robodak”. This social robot is the first Persian-speaking robot in the coury that speaks, listens and answers in Farsi.
“Robodak” is an iellige robot that helps the researcher in carrying out research activities such as searching and documeing. This research assista robot has been created for a year and a half and now its second version is being developed. Despite the lack of financial resources in the research institute and the lack of support from the coury’s science and technology institutions and the slowness in the developme of this platform due to the lack of financial resources, the leaders of the human-machine ieraction laboratory are looking for strategies to make this project self-sufficie and the private sector eer it. .
In the end, he noted: We at the Iran Science and Information Technology Research Institute (Irandoc) have created the first artificial ielligence specialized accelerator in the coury with the help of the private sector under the brand name “Hamtek”.
In this accelerator, erepreneurial teams, most of whom are studes and graduates of the coury’s top universities, are meored by the most experienced domestic and iernational erepreneurs, and after completing their products and services, they are iroduced to investors and the industry for the next stages of growth, investme and maturity. spend yourself The first acceleration period started in the beginning of 2018 and now 6 teams of erepreneurs are working in this accelerator, all of them working in the field of artificial ielligence. It is ieresting to know that one of these teams is working on a product that was previously created as a team project for one of my undergraduate courses.
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