Between a chatbot and an Artificial Intelligence helpdesk passing through Virtual Reality and the Mobile business yesterday, in Milan, during "Wow", the fourth edition of the Samsung Business Summit, it was all a flurry of billions because in this new technologies the digital giants are engaging with colossal investments. So much so that, according to PwC, between now and 2030 Artificial Intelligence and its engine, fifth generation networks or 5G, will be one of the main drivers of global growth with a contribution of over 15.700 trillion dollars, more than the GDP of India and China combined. As a result of these investments, global GDP will increase – again according to PwC – by 14 percent. First of all, in three years Samsung, of the 161 billion dollars it has allocated for the development of all its activities, has allocated over 22 to AI, equivalent to about 19 billion euros, as Youngky Kim recently declared , president of the Korean chaebol. And precisely to confirm this commitment to ultra-fast network activities, 5G, Samsung has acquired control of the Spanish Zhilabs, a specialist in network services for the Next Mobile Economy.
There was also Di Maio
Yesterday, in addition to Carlo Barlocco, president of Samsung Electronics Italia and Carlo Casaleggio of Casaleggio Associati, Suk-Jea Hahn, head of the Global Mobile B2B Team, Thomas Riedel, head of Samsung Network Europe and Nick Dawson, director of the global Mobile B2N Team. Among all these super-experts, Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio could not be missing – as Casaleggio is there, among other things – who has promised a few million euros for innovation platforms. In closing and before the round table, Enrico Mentana who presented Open, mobile-to-mobile journalism.
His Majesty the smartphone
Ultimately what does AI promise to be and do? First of all, the triumph of His Majesty the smartphone which, thanks to the extraordinary acceleration of the speeds of the new networks and their super-capacity, will be able to concentrate exceptional performances that will occur in every industrial sector, public and consumer, with strong productivity recoveries. Strong recoveries already in place of which Casaleggio has extensively reported. "A technological breakthrough - said Barlocco - because for companies it doesn't just mean integrating mobile devices into their work but rethinking the entire economy of the future as mobile-first". And Samsung deserves credit for a record that is based on 500 million connected devices, sold every year, which will soon number one billion. By 2020, every Samsung device will be AI-enabled and connected. In the world of ultra-fast and intelligent connections, the IoT, robotics and above all businesses will change. However, this gigantic fleet of machines in perpetual connection will - as already happens - cause major security problems, as indeed for years the Def-Con event in Las Vegas mercilessly reveals. With network and password breaches and gigantic damage.
The hacker spies on you from the connected toaster
Nick Dawson wanted to underline how the immense amount of data that will travel in increasing quantities on the networks will also be exposed to very aggressive violations. And the availability of highly protective platforms, such as Samsung's Knox (Gartner has judged it the most efficient in the world), is essential and vital for this explosion of data. With a very amusing and clear metaphor Dawson closed his report thus: “The bad guys, that is, the hackers can try anything. We try to prevent them from entering, for example, and it happened, from the connected toaster to get to capture the most secret passwords". So watch out for the extreme violability of intelligent technologies that will make growing amounts of data travel at frightening speeds – in addition to destroying jobs – because protecting all these amazing technologies will cost us a lot of billions.
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