Pundits suggest country embrace artificial intelligence

Thailand must embrace artificial intelligence (AI) to drive economic growth, improve the quality of education and strengthen its core industrial sectors, according to an academic and tech pioneers.

- SUCHIT LEESA-NGUANSUK

The country urgently needs to improve workers' skills and invest in human capital over the next five years, ahead of the arrival of the artificial general intelligence (AGI) economy.

AGI refers to the hypothetical intelligence of a machine that has the ability to understand or learn any intellectual task a human can.

“AI is an important tool for competition in the future", Somkiat Tangkitvanich, president of the Development Research Institute, said at the NAC 2025 NSTDA annual conference titled "Decoding AI: A Future Strategy for Competitive Edge", held by the National Science and Technology Development Agency yesterday.

He said AI is making breakthroughs in many fields, as it can be used to predict protein structure, analyse child language and discover exoplanets.

Mr Somkiat said there are four types of humans in the age of AI, with the first 'smart cyborgs' or people who are good at using AI, with the second type smart users who do not have much capabilities, but embrace AI.

The third type is smart humans who have capabilities but do not know how to use AI, and the last is people who do not have capabilities and do not know how to use AI.