RIYADH, Saudi Arabia and ARMONK, N.Y., Sept. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) introduced at the moment the signing of a strategic settlement to drive adoption of synthetic intelligence in the carbon seize and industrial domains throughout the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Announced on the second Global AI summit in the Kingdom, the primary use case underneath this settlement can be in collaboration with the Ministry of Energy in Saudi Arabia. SDAIA, Ministry of Energy and IBM will use synthetic intelligence know-how to detect, map, and ultimately scale back carbon emissions throughout the nation.
Dr. Majid Al-Tuwaijri, the CEO for the National Center for AI, stated, “This agreement with IBM will contribute to creating opportunities by addressing key challenges in circular carbon economy, petrochemical and industrial domains, through the development of innovative solutions in the field of data and artificial intelligence, and the exchange of shared experiences and investment opportunities in this vital area to support achieving the goals of Vision 2030.”
“This agreement would allow us to leverage IBM’s expertise in technologies like artificial intelligence,” Eng. Ahmed Al-Zahrani, Ministry of Energy’s Assistant Minister for Development and Excellence, stated, “which will play a key role in promoting the adoption of the Circular Carbon Economy, achieving the goals announced during the Saudi Green Initiative.”
The administration of greenhouse fuel emissions is vital to the Kingdom’s reaching its goal of web zero,” said Dina Abo-Onoq, Managing Partner, IBM Consulting Saudi Arabia. “Using a number of satellites and differing kinds of imaging applied sciences, we’ll practice an AI mannequin to acknowledge and pinpoint totally different kinds of fuel throughout the whole nation. By doing so, it will assist with earlier and higher visibility of the issue which has not been potential with standard measurement approaches.”
As half of the general settlement, IBM will work with SDAIA to determine excessive worth functions of synthetic intelligence and machine studying to remedy challenges in public and personal sector organizations in the Kingdom, with a concentrate on supporting the Kingdom’s sustainability and industrialization aims.
Saudi Arabia is at the moment present process a significant transformation program to turn into a worldwide logistics hub and industrial powerhouse. The Kingdom has additionally set a goal of attaining web zero in emissions by 2060 and to help the worldwide effort to minimize emissions. New cities and infrastructure being constructed in the Kingdom, corresponding to NEOM or the Red Sea, are being designed with sustainability aims in thoughts.
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