AI ambitions face race against time

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• The government is taking the right steps, covering about 50% of the strategy, particularly by establishing a collaborative system between educational institutions and big tech to cultivate ready-to-work talent, she noted.
• Thailand's artificial intelligence (AI) strategy is heading in the right direction, but the country might run out of time before it can turn policies into real economic power, say digital industry leaders.
• The nation must accelerate execution, widening AI access for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and building a national data infrastructure if AI is to become the country's next economic engine, said executives.
• Thienprasit Chaiyapatranun, president of the Thai Hotels Association, said hotel operators project AI could comprise 5-10% of their operations at present, mostly back-office tasks or management rather than services, which largely rely on
• However, the gap we must bridge by 2027 is speed and the digital divide for SMEs, reducing the concentration of technological capability that is currently confined to large corporations,"
• The National AI Strategy for 2022-2027 has the right pillars of ethics, infrastructure, talent, innovation and adoption, but over the next few years Thailand should not limit itself to competing only in generative AI or software AI, she