The INSAIT Institute at Sofia University is one of about 50 organizations in the world that receive an invitation to participate in the historic first global Alliance for Artificial Intelligence in the world. The initiative is from IBM and Meta, and the two companies announced it a few hours ago in the US. It aims to bring together the world's greatest minds from the private sector, academia and institutions in the name of building open, safe and accountable artificial intelligence.
The total number of members at the founding of the Alliance was carefully selected and included some of the strongest universities and development centers in the world. The Bulgarian INSAIT registers its name with leading scientific institutions such as NASA, CERN, the universities of Harvard, Yale, Berkeley, ETH Zurich, etc., as well as technological companies such as Sony, Linux, Intel, AMD and Dell, the MES reported.
The Bulgarian Institute not only participates in the Alliance, but also registers its name among the founders of the initiative, which aims to change the future of artificial intelligence globally. The global influence of the organizations included in it is also indicative of the aggregated data - their total budget for development activity exceeds 80 billion dollars per year, they employ a total of 1 million people, and the students studying in them are 400 thousand.
At their joint announcement, IBM and Meta emphasized that this is a key moment for the development of artificial intelligence and its future. These technologies are introducing capabilities almost daily that can improve the way we work, live, learn and interact with each other, they point out. However, they say this incredible progress has been made possible by decades of innovation in an open ecosystem between science, business and institutions. As artificial intelligence advances, however, humanity must also develop the ability to manage safety. This is also a top priority for the Alliance, behind which its members stand.
A strategic goal is also to shift the focus from large corporations that develop technologies with their own vision for artificial intelligence. That is why the Alliance places the focus of the future transformation precisely on open cooperation and the use of the expertise of the widest possible range of organizations (small companies, academic circles, scientific agencies, large enterprises, institutions and others). They must also become an engine of the evolution of artificial intelligence, and one of the global centers that have the potential to be among the driving forces of this transformation is the Bulgarian INSAIT. /BGNES
