MoI launches online foundation course for public opinion mining analysis (artificial intelligence-AI)

Union Minister for Information U Maung Maung Ohn attended the opening ceremony of the Foundation Course for Public Opinion Mining Analysis (Artificial Intelligence – AI) in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday.
Speaking at the event, the Union minister said that Artificial Intelligence (AI) spearheads the smart technology revolution in the IT era and is widely used in international countries.
It is also used in health, education and industrial sectors reducing manpower. In other words, the AI is replaced with the manpower. In the media trend, it can create AI virtual news for the people to analyze the misinformation. Moreover, the AI is automated and it can save human resources.
Then, he highlighted the usefulness of AI as the search engine in this digitalization, as well as in public areas like navigations, traffic lights, jetties, airports and research of neighbouring countries and European countries.
He also urged the trainees to learn the subjects well during the course and apply the knowledge for the sake of the department, country and people.
Then, U Wai Phyo Aung of the Myanmar Computer Vision Developer Team reported on the courses to be taught at the training and opened the video clip featuring AI technology.
Seven trainees of the Media Development Department joined the online training course that will last for three months.
It will deliver Data Science, Python Programming Language, Text Classification and Semantics. — MNA/KTZH