Artificial intelligence (AI) is already being used in many applications and in many life situations. The potential it has is enormous, especially in fields such as medicine. That development will continue, bringing serious challenges in various segments of society, but it is necessary to accept it.
The director of IBM’s development laboratory in Germany and one of the world’s leading experts on databases and artificial intelligence, Namik Hrle, also says that large companies and powerful countries will continue to develop AI, whether we want it or not.
“What we need to do is accept that, because we have no other choice, and adapt to AI in our conditions. That actually means finding examples (in business, in the economy) in which AI can carry out transformation and contribute to efficiency,” he emphasized.
He specifies that IT experts cannot do this alone and that experts from the specific field to which it applies need to take the lead, to think about how a tool can help them that could potentially optimize their work.
“The more you learn, the more knowledge you accept from that field, the more you experiment, and people will be inspired to use AI,” he said.
Namik Hrle emphasizes that the company IBM has been in this business for more than 100 years and that it is a witness, creator, or co-creator of almost everything that has happened in IT, and that their opinion on what follows, where this industry is actually going, is interesting.
He says IBM’s clients often use AI in HR departments, for example, to find the right candidates for a job, even for interviewing and selection. It is also used to help programmers to be more efficient in coding, AI as a coding assistant, and job automation.
“In job automation where a certain task, which is routine, can be automated using AI to be more efficient. Those are the most common examples,” he said.
He believes that we should all use the available tools, of which there is currently an abundance. He does not know much about the situation regarding the use of AI in the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), but he points out, “I wouldn’t be surprised if some examples, of what I mentioned, exist.”
Hrle says the spectrum of AI use is very wide, from the obvious misuse for example for terror or for aggression and genocide, on one extreme, to the most useful applications such as helping in the discovery of medicines for some diseases that were incurable.
As a foreign member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of BiH, Namik Hrle held a lecture earlier this month in Sarajevo on the topic titled “The Future of Information Technology: What is Next in Computing?”. He highlighted key trends that will shape the future of computing, including the explosive development of AI, quantum computing, and high-performance systems that will increasingly be integrated through hybrid cloud platforms. He calls these vectors of development.
“What is happening now, what is interesting, and where I see the future going, is the convergence of those three vectors. The convergence of those three vectors will lead to new value, strengthen each of them individually, and lead to completely new solutions for some problems we even thought were unsolvable,” he emphasized.
Namik Hrle belongs to the small number of experts who hold the title of IBM Fellow, the highest level of technical career, an award IBM grants for the highest level of technical knowledge, innovation, contribution to IBM’s business results, external and internal reputation, and promotion of technical talent careers.
Born in Banja Luka, a member of the IBM Academy and the Council of Technical Experts, a distinguished IBM inventor with 79 published patents, numerous outstanding technical achievements, author recognitions, and corporate awards, Namik Hrle has a global reputation as a top expert in the use of data and AI for digital transformation and reinvention of business applications, Fena writes.
