Japanese internal affairs minister Yoshimasa Hayashi (center) poses for a photo with ministers from ASEAN member states in Hanoi on Thursday. HANOI - Japan and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations have agreed to work together on developing new artificial intelligence models and preparing related laws. The AI-sector cooperation was included in a joint statement adopted at a meeting of digital ministers from Japan and ASEAN member states in Hanoi on Thursday. The statement was proposed by Japanese communications minister Yoshimasa Hayashi, who attended the meeting. Japan and ASEAN aim to join hands at a time when the United States and China are boosting their presence in the AI sector.

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The demand for data and artificial intelligence (AI) continues to accelerate. An executive survey on big data and AI found that 99 per cent of firms have now made investments in these critical areas. A survey by EDBI and Kearney of the ASEAN countries including Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, and the Philippines found that if applied and executed well, AI could add $1 trillion to the region's GDP by 2030. However, despite the rush to embed data, analytics and AI into organisations' day-to-day operations, enterprises must realise that a radically different approach to data architecture is needed if they are to successfully put intelligence at the heart of their response to every business moment. Currently, just a fraction of data is properly used in analysis.

Artificial Intelligence (AI), IoT, big data, augmented and virtual reality, and 3D and 4D printing are becoming essential and familiar elements in …

An educated and informed consumption of media content has become a challenge in modern times. With the shift from traditional news outlets to social media and similar venues, a major concern is that readers are becoming encapsulated in "echo chambers" and may fall prey to fake news and disinformation, lacking easy access to dissenting views. We suggest a novel task aiming to alleviate some of these concerns -- that of detecting articles that most effectively counter the arguments -- and not just the stance -- made in a given text. We study this problem in the context of debate speeches. Given such a speech, we aim to identify, from among a set of speeches on the same topic and with an opposing stance, the ones that directly counter it. We provide a large dataset of 3,685 such speeches (in English), annotated for this relation, which hopefully would be of general interest to the NLP community. We explore several algorithms addressing this task, and while some are successful, all fall short of expert human performance, suggesting room for further research. All data collected during this work is freely available for research.

Following the opening of its London office in January this year, artificial intelligence (#AI) technology incubator and investor Skymind Global Ventures (SGV) announced a $800m fund to boost the AI #ecosystems in #Europe and #Asia.

In Southeast Asia, e-commerce is big business, with Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia and Thailand generating US$14.8 billion in online sales throughout 2016. According to a 2019 study from Facebook and Bain & Company, ASEAN's digital consumers' spending will triple by 2025. Within the e-commerce sector, online retailers are already embracing artificial intelligence (AI) applications such as chatbots, to deliver a more personal experience for shoppers online. According to a 2018 article by Rene Millman titled'Adoption of AI booming in Southeast Asia,' the adoption rate of AI in the region grew to 14 percent in 2018. The article, citing an IDC report'Asia Pacific Enterprise Cognitive/AI Survey,' revealed that 37 percent of companies would put AI adoption plans in place in the next five years.

I have years of experience in the enterprise software space, starting in my early years as a Customer Representative for WebHelp before expanding into market development for Intel which saw me take on a more Business Development role. My roles in companies such as Intel, Softwin and ABC Data were very Business Development-orientated which meant that I had to become an expert in the technology and in understanding how that technology could solve the problems that my customers faced. It also meant that I had to build and maintain relationships, skills that have served me very well in my recent role at UiPath. Throughout my career I saw how good quality enterprise technologies can really help drive a company's competitiveness and productivity, so UiPath was a natural fit for me when I joined them in 2016. I have helped drive UiPath's expansion into ASEAN, from setting up offices in Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, and South Korea, to hiring staff and providing strategic oversight of operations.

In Asia, no economic or business sector is as vibrant or commands more attention of policymakers as the digital sphere. This trend is well documented in a landmark study by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)'s first annual Digital Economy Report. The timely study was released earlier this month as countries across Asia grapple with a complex digital future. Digital technologies help cut costs, enable delivery of services without leakages, reduce opportunities for graft, promote ease of doing business, leverage an increasingly non-tactile world, grow economies, have the potential to create millions of new jobs and, it appears, even help fight fake news. On the flip side, there are concerns of the cost of the emerging digital economy in terms of loss of traditional employment sectors, eroding the right to privacy, abetting authoritarian statecontrol of citizens' lives, causing a spike in cybercrimes and, according to some, promoting a deracinated, atomised existence for human beings.

While consumers across ASEAN are excited about 5G's promise of faster home broadband speeds and mobile internet connections, it is the technology's low network latency and power consumption that offers a variety of opportunities for businesses. Globe Telecom in the Philippines rolled out Southeast Asia's first 5G broadband service in select areas of the country in June, partnering with telecommunications giant Huawei to give the world's largest community of social media users a home broadband service that is now the fastest in ASEAN. About 20 times faster than 4G, everything from instant high-definition movie streaming to cloud gaming will be less than seconds away once 5G is commercially available across the rest of the region in the next few years. Businesses, meanwhile, can unlock increased value from Internet of Things (IoT) applications, artificial intelligence (AI), advanced robotics and a multitude of other uses. A recent report from consultancy firm A.T. Kearney predicted that this increased value will be worth around US$147 billion for ASEAN businesses by 2025 – with US$81 billion of that additional revenue gained through the growing use of AI in industries such as trade, transport and financial services.