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AI center in Camarines Sur inaugurated

The Camarines Sur Polytechnic College (CSPC) and the Department of Science and Technology-The Philippine Council for Industry, Energy, and Emerging Technology Research and Development (DoST-PCIEERD) inaugurate the Artificial Intelligence Center for Community Development at the CSPC campus in Nabua on Friday, July 28, 2023. The center aims to improve disaster forecasting in the 5th District of Camarines Sur.

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00:00 Our workstation has 4 A1000 GPUs, RTX 1000.
00:06 It is being used for training.
00:10 It can be accessed from anywhere.
00:12 It is remote accessed.
00:16 Compared to an ordinary computer, how powerful is this?
00:21 How many times more powerful?
00:23 I can say that it is 100 times more powerful.
00:25 If we do our deep learning model in an ordinary CPU or GPU,
00:31 it can reach minutes or hours.
00:34 Here, it is just a matter of seconds.
00:37 What is the thing that you have been computing for a long time?
00:42 It is deep learning.
00:44 We train for a day, an hour.
00:48 Before, we left our laptop for a day.
00:51 You train for the predictive model of the water level?
00:56 Including input features such as rain, water, and other inputs.
01:02 So, you will make a predictive model of the rain, water level,
01:10 and in one hour, this will be the level.
01:14 First question, Director. First, how important is this center for building our resources,
01:24 especially for artificial intelligence?
01:26 Why Bicon? Why CTS-CTS-UB was the grantee of this project?
01:32 First, artificial intelligence has already reached a wide audience.
01:39 In fact, it is for basic. It is in our cellphones.
01:42 We do it all the time. Online shopping.
01:44 You will be surprised. It already lists down the things that you thought you need.
01:50 That is how intelligent systems are being employed in artificial intelligence tools
01:58 or deployed in artificial intelligence tools.
02:00 So, the question probably is that why perhaps community development?
02:06 The reason why we approved such a proposal is exactly because they have a niche.
02:14 They wanted to have more applications that involves communities and their challenges
02:20 and their aspirations.
02:23 So, if we say community, it serves, artificial intelligence should actually serve the needs of the communities.
02:31 The needs to be safe, the need to be secure, the need to be developed and economically progressive.
02:39 And as far as we know, there are no other artificial intelligence research centers
02:46 that are attempting to develop tools and applications that will ultimately benefit communities.
02:54 And why Bicol? Because they had an idea. They were the first to present the idea that
03:01 artificial intelligence can be relevant even in our future.
03:07 How immediate are the effects of the benefits of the project?
03:13 Actually, the project implementation is not easy.
03:17 Since we need to have a responsible AI.
03:22 So, we need to make sure that the decision support system that we are going to use is
03:29 knowledge and information on that.
03:32 The generated forecast is substantial.
03:35 And we should make sure that it gives the right information.
03:44 Because if we provide a premature forecasting for them, it will affect the people.
03:54 So, we need to make sure that our forecast is accurate.
04:02 So, now, based on your own expertise and opinion and experience,
04:10 can you forecast when that will happen?
04:14 Yes. We need to collect data for a span of a year in order for us to gather more accurate data.
04:26 Because if we gather only for 6 months, the weather will change.
04:30 And we have summer and rainy season.
04:33 So, we need all those seasons for the good duration of that year.
04:38 We will make sure that we will not expect a typhoon.
04:45 But we will use that data to train.
04:49 We are very proud that we come to Missouri as the lead province for doing NCSPCs among the state universities
04:57 together with our other leading divisions, such as the NAB and NACA, UNC and NCF,
05:04 and other higher education institutions.
05:08 Because we believe that the opportunities are there.
05:15 And we can take advantage of these opportunities.
05:21 We can take advantage of the AI technology.
05:24 We can take advantage of the other disciplines that our state universities have.
05:28 The Commission on Higher Education, Chairman Poi De Vera, said that he wants to increase the research output
05:35 of colleges and universities to make them more internationalized.
05:39 With this project, how will CSPC/PSUB help in internationalization of colleges and universities in the country?
05:52 Actually, this is one challenge that we are now giving in TETOS with our internationalization program
06:00 and the diversification of needs with our partner institutions now.
06:05 We know for a fact that our respective programs are now building stronger ties with prospective partners abroad.
06:16 And besides, just like with the research we have in the College of Computer Science,
06:23 we have had MOA signing just yesterday with an institution, an upcoming one again by August 14.
06:30 Two colleges, universities in Indonesia for that matter, Dave, are partnering specifically for the College of Computer Science
06:39 for student-faculty exchange and even research collaboration.
06:43 So I think this is to address the call of the Commission on Higher Education, ensuring that attention perhaps should be given.
06:54 In fact, in my recent Board of Trustees meeting, I got reminded by the Chair and members of the Board of Trustees
07:01 to look into how the CSPC now is working on its internationalization.
07:08 So basically, we have positioned our institution with ASEAN and beyond.
07:16 And in this continuing effort, we would want to see CSPC making marks in the different places in the world.
07:25 As I was reminded also to work on the QS rankings, which is actually a pervasive effort
07:34 where this research, I think, and other researches of our young, but intelligent and smart faculty are now doing.
07:44 And that's why I have here our VP for Research and Extension, Dr. Salazar, and our VP for Admin
07:50 to ensure that we have the needed funding. And if we do not have the needed funding, we go to DOST for more funding.
07:58 So that all these efforts are building on research capability of our faculty will make an impact,
08:05 not just here in the community, not just in Bicol region or in the country, but in the world.
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