“Artificial intelligence will serve to make our day-to-day decisions right”. The Adeje Summer University (UVA) began its thirtieth edition yesterday with a conference by Beatriz Crespo, a doctor in Sports Medicine and Performance as well as an expert in innovation and technology, who addressed the positive side of artificial intelligencethe combination of algorithms to create machines They have the same capabilities as humans.
“The problem of humanity is that we do not die, but we do get sick,” said Crespo, who considered that using artificial intelligence such a quantity of data could be crossed that it would be viable to reduce the number of diseases such as diabetes or cancer. “71% of deaths in the world are caused by non-communicable diseases, so they can be prevented through good lifestyle habits and that is where decisions have to be made,” said the researcher, to emphasize that “it is here where Artificial intelligence can help humansjust in the selection of those decisions ».
The Adeje Summer University will have more than a dozen courses and workshops this year that will be given over the next week, until Friday the 21st. The first edition was developed in 1973.a collaboration between the Adejero City Council and the University of La Laguna (ULL) that has addressed hundreds of debates through courses and different activities. The rector of the ULL, Francisco García, present at the opening ceremony yesterday, stressed that this initiative “must continue to be fresh, young and capable of change”, in addition to the fact that “it serves to see where we come from, where we are and bet for the future reinventing ourselves and advancing to continue being useful to society, which is ultimately who we serve”.
Jose Miguel Rodriguez Fragamayor of Adeje, stressed that this academic event “tries to respond from the beginning to the problems that are generated at all times and that is why The choice of artificial intelligence as this year’s leitmotif is not accidental». Fraga also took advantage of his intervention to highlight the “commitment to knowledge” in the municipality that “not only carries out the Summer University, but also has seven editions of the Tourism degree taught in Adeje.”
