YEREVAN, OCTOBER 6, ARMENPRESS. Visionary talk by prominent scientist and entrepreneur Noubar Afeyan, Q&As between a human and Morpheus robot working with artificial intelligence, panel discussions, and fishbowl session dedicated to upcoming changes in social life. The first day of the Global Innovation Forum (GIF22) was full of impressive presentations.

Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board of Moderna, Inc., Noubar Afeyan said that they were looking forward to this event, which is a unique format of being next to Armenia. "For many of us come from different parts of the world where Armenians have been forced to live over the centuries, GIF is an opportunity to share the knowledge we have acquired in foreign countries," said Afeyan. He built his speech around the idea that challenges and threats are not strange things to Armenians and they need to be considered as problems requiring joint solutions. “If only we were the only country in the world, those challenges would be pretty enough, but of course, these challenges are happening simultaneously with the world that is facing unprecedented insensitive challenges, including global insecurity and wars, pandemics, social media manipulation, inequality and injustice, refugee crises, inflation, supply chain disruptions, climate change. And so let me say challenges are things that should drive us, that should focus our mind to resolve them and nothing more,” added Noubar Afeyan.

Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation for Armenian Science and Technology (FAST), Senior Partner of McKinsey & Company Andre Andonian touched upon the topic of the reasons and trends for the spread of artificial intelligence solutions. Artificial intelligence is used in drug discovery, and in many other spheres. More than 90 percent of new enterprise applications will embed AI by 2025. According to statistics, 85 million jobs will disappear by 2025, but 97 million jobs will be created instead. By 2030, the contribution of AI to the world economy will amount to 16 trillion dollars: just as much as the GDP of China and India combined.

ABBYY founder and chairman of the board of directors David Yang introduced Morpheus robot, the first emotional artificial intelligence. First, the audience listened to the music composed by Morpheus, and then Yang moved on to the report itself, which focused on the question of whether AI systems can become members of the human family, or whether they will remain as "soulless beings". "It is possible that by 2050, some states will legalize marriages between humans and robots. My family is making an effort to understand the criteria that AI Companions must meet to become part of the human family, as is the case with dogs and cats," said David Yang.

According to Yang, Morpheus can speak in human language, make jokes, be bored, sad or love. It can also create music, videos and communicate with people. "10 million pages of textual information, thousands of musical performances and hundreds of videos were used to create Morpheus' worldview," added David Yang. At the end, the attendees watched a video where a person asks the robot Morpheus questions and receives surprisingly reasonable answers.