Experts believe that this type of AI could boost gross domestic product (GDP) by 7 percent and productivity growth by 1.5 percentage points over 10 years.
Like all artificial intelligence, generative AI It works through machine learning models, which are very large models that are pre-trained with large amounts of data. There is a World Economic Forum G20 Global Smart Cities Alliance which has developed the foundations for the responsible use of smart city technologies.
Nine out of ten Cities around the world want to implement artificial intelligence generative, but according to a Bloomberg Philanthropies report from 2023, only 2 percent are doing so.
AI is a part of our lives and will be integrated into many other functions over the years. At the moment, many cities are already using it more frequently. Photo: Unsplash
This is just the beginning, it’s been two years, but the use of generative AI will grow like foam this decade. Generative AI can do a lot for our citiesFor example, it can generate a new digital platform to connect local governments that implement it.
There are already Specific cases of how to optimize public transport schedulescreate multilingual chatbots for better access to services or to integrate smart vehicles that move around the city on their own like trucks or taxis.
These are five cities in the world what lead in using generative AI to become smarter.
- Buenos Aires: a versatile chatbot
According to the World Economic Forum, Argentina’s capital is already launched its chatbot in 2019. It’s called “Boti” and has evolved alongside generative AI. It has achieved a record 11 million conversations in January 2022 to become “a preferred channel for citizens.”
Served as Official government channel for testing and vaccinations during the pandemicbut has now expanded its scope to include services such as bike sharing and social care.
- Singapore: 100 AI innovations
This country city has been the first in the world to have a digital twinessentially a virtual model of Singapore. And now, following a government initiative launched last year, has created more than 100 generation AI solutions.
According to The Straits Times, AI will allows teaching staff to quickly develop new course contentand another is a chatbot for community centers.
An interdisciplinary research group, led by 17 professors from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The team is Examining the “man-machine relationship”improving existing AI initiatives in the city-state.”
Urban mobility is increasingly better designed in our cities thanks to AI.
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- Amsterdam: Generating sustainable materials
The Dutch have gone further and They have leveraged natural language processing, the backbone of next-generation AI chatbots like ChatGPTuses word data to establish new linguistic connections.
Now, in a novel project of Research from the University of Amsterdamwords are being changed to molecules for create new and sustainable materials. The team of experts focuses on the creation of salts of energy storage, sustainable steel, safe plastic and new plant proteins.
According to Bernd Ensing, senior lecturer on the project Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Molecules and Materials, “We build new molecules and new materialsUsing AI to help us with that, or even do it for us, will change the way we do our science. It will make us less dependent on what we might call “chemical intuition.”
- Dallas: autonomous vehicles
In the two largest cities in the state of Texas in the United States, AI is being used to improve mobility. Autonomous vehicles have already been tested with varying degrees of success. A new generation of self-driving trucks is now being tested between Dallas and Houston, which are trained with generative AI.
They have lidar sensorswhich can detect the distance to an object and continuously display a 3D map of the vehicle’s trajectory. This allows the vehicle to generate predictions of what will happen up to 10 seconds in the future and therefore anticipate problems.
In an interview with the Toronto Globe, Raquel Urtasun, CEO of the autonomous vehicle company behind this innovation, says that its “AI first” approach means that the system “learns from the data” instead of having to “teach it” to react to specific situations.”
If these next-generation AI vehicles prove to be safer and more reliable than their predecessors, there is the potential to address a range of issuesincluding supply chain delays, carbon emissions and labor shortages.
Integrating AI to turn the world’s cities into increasingly smart cities is the great challenge for thousands of mayors around the world. Photo: Unsplah
- Boston: The Bicycle of the Future
Clean mobility has become one of the great challenges facing our cities.
To the authorities of Boston would like to create a more bike-friendly city, and planners have been looking at Copenhagen. in Europe as a good example to follow.
The bottleneck however is the impact that These changes could have on the city. But with the Genetic AI that problem is easier to visualizeand Bostonians can now imagine and create a different design for their city.
Jinhua Zhao, professor of Cities and Transportation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has a say in this regard. He says that “with the help of generative AI, We can bring the Copenhagen style of bicycle infrastructure, overlay it on the Boston infrastructure. and the built environment of Boston, so that Bostonians can get a tangible sense of what our city will look like if we promote and build a bike-friendly city.”
