Artificial Intelligence increasingly prevalent in ASEAN

Four Indonesian entities signed a letter of intent in Jakarta with AI Singapore, the national artificial intelligence programme. Just one of the initiatives

Article by Tommaso Magrini

Generative artificial intelligence applications are gaining ground in the ASEAN region. And it is doing so alongside concrete applications that can contribute on several fronts. The National University Health System (NUHS) in Singapore, for example, plans to use Amazon Bedrock and generative artificial intelligence to improve the patients’ experience. It is experimenting with Amazon Bedrock to develop a solution that automates patients’ discharge summaries, so that physicians can focus on patient consultation. In the meantime, Bangkok Biznews is taking advantage of the Claude2 foundation model on Amazon Bedrock to refine and develop summaries of its own news, making it easier and faster for readers to consume the content. For what concerns Malaysia’s 123.rf, its AI image generation service uses Stability AI on AWS with a significant application of Amazon Sagemaker. But there are also those who are developing homegrown applications. For example, a similar instrument to Chat GPT is in the pipeline as a result of a new collaboration agreement between Singapore and Indonesia. Four Indonesian entities signed a letter of intent with AI Singapore in Jakarta, the republic’s national artificial intelligence program, to co-develop a new large-scale linguistic models instrument using technology similar to Chat GPT. The collaboration between the countries to create such tools for the region, is important to face the Southeast Asian underrepresentation in language models commonly used today. Indonesian Deputy Minister of Communications and Information Technology Nezar Patria added that the collaboration highlights how AI has helped the workers of the country to become more efficient in their work. By 2030, AI could add $366 billion to Indonesia’s gross domestic product and nearly $1,000 billions in added GDP across all Southeast Asia.