Expertise in AI to redefine Pakistan's future economy: Ahsan Iqbal.

ISLAMABAD -- Minister for Planning, DevelAopment, and Special InitiaAtives Professor Ahsan Iqbal on Thursday highlighted the importance of getting experAtise in Artificial Intelligence (AI) to compete in the world markets and achieve the goals of national development.

'The AI is a new driver or paradigm which will redefine the (country's) future econoAmy. Today in the world, AI is bringing a revolutionary imApact in every sector,' he said while addressing a ceremony here. During 2017: 18, he said the Pakistan Muslim League: Nawaz (PML: N) government had done a strategic intervenAtion for putting the country in the 4th industrial revolution by setting up national centers for AI, Cyber Security, Automation and Robotic, Big Data and Cloud Computing, Applied MathAematics, GIS Technology, and Genomics. 'The future game is all about algorithms. The estabAlished centers were supposed to prepare us for the 4th indusAtrial revolution,' he said.

The minister said these naAtional centers contributed sigAnificantly...