The Istanbul Artificial Intelligence Summit, organized for the first time this year by the Artificial Intelligence Turkey Platform (AITR), founded under the leadership of the Informatics Foundation of Turkey and Istanbul Technical University, took place on December 23rd at Istanbul İşkuleleri.

Hosted by Türkiye İş Bankası, AITR Istanbul Artificial Intelligence Summit took place with speeches by TBV Chairman Faruk Eczacıbaşı, ITU Research Dean - AITR Co-Chair Prof. Dr. Altan Çakır and AITR Co-Chair Levent Kızıltan, and panels with the participation of leading industry representatives. At the summit, which was attended by many academicians and business people, artificial intelligence technologies were discussed in detail.

Delivering the opening speech of the event, Faruk Eczacıbaşı, President of the Informatics Foundation of Turkey, said: "Smarter and more creative technologies such as GPT and BDMs have entered our lives and are used by millions of people. According to an academic study, 93 percent of the data sets that GPT-3 is trained on are in English. Despite this, even though it works at a level that 'works' in Turkish, it turns out to be shorter and less accurate than English. This encourages people with different mother tongues to write in English, thus contributing to the further development of English. As AITR, we have the opportunity to be a pioneer in this trend in Turkey. We lack data and there is not much to say about our usage. But I think we can see the opportunities ahead. Conceptual breakdowns, when used correctly, bring everyone closer to the finish line. We can easily count BDMs in this category. I imagine a picture like this: Imagine knowledge production on the vertical axis and knowledge distribution, i.e. networking, on the horizontal axis. At the intersection of these two axes lies a leverage that can move the world. As TBV, our two important platforms work on both the vertical and horizontal axes."

Public, business and community awareness has become an important topic

Prof. Dr. Altan Çakır said, "With the speed of development of today's technologies and the sudden entry of productive artificial intelligence-based solutions into our lives, the awareness and curiosity of the public, business world and society on this issue has become a very important topic. Therefore, the rapid adaptation of the business world, the development of disruptive initiatives and investment processes, the world of education and academic practices, and the determination of public policies need to be addressed as a whole within the scope of legal and ethical issues. AITR organized the Istanbul Artificial Intelligence Summit for the first time this year to bring together different segments with the important participation of the business world, academia and the public to discuss, evaluate and discuss the outcomes of artificial intelligence technologies for society."

Artificial intelligence will transform many things in ways that will be hard to reverse

AITR Co-Chair Levent Kızıltan said the following in his speech: "We had our first event at the same time with a technology announcement that came to the agenda almost a year ago. Then the world changed, the artificial intelligence hype wave left its mark on the agenda. Chat GPT really became a 'deep topic for chats'. Our aim was to make AITR an interface for the social balance of technological development, individual and public relations, and to overlap academia and commercial environments with the state at the right points. It is possible to say that artificial intelligence will transform many things in almost every aspect of life in the next three to five years in a way that will be difficult to reverse."

Within the scope of the event, "productive artificial intelligence applications and change expectations", "science and innovation with artificial intelligence, artificial intelligence studies for society", "the importance of artificial intelligence for the business world, development speed and scaling", "artificial intelligence investments, productive AI technologies in the focus of business development" panels were held.