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Starting next year, UNI will have an engineering degree among its many specializations. artificial intelligence, two words that are heard a lot in recent years. One of the best known examples of using AI is ChatGPT, an information processing tool that is very useful for creating texts and answering any type of questions. But artificial intelligence is everywhere and in our daily lives. This is how Dr. Wester Zyla, director of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at UNI, explains: “From the moment you wake up and go to sleep, you are somehow interacting with some artificial intelligence model. For example, when you ask Siri or Alexa [asistentes inteligentes] For some problems, when you receive emails and see “anti-spam” filters, or when you use Waze.” It’s everywhere. “It’s an emergency, and there has been strong demand in recent years,” says Zella, who also comments that this The new profession is in line with the National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence and the law that encourages its use.

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The needs in the country are endless, and AI specialists will help solve the problems of our national reality: “They will be able to solve real problems in any sector of our society. They can work with other engineers, doctors and lawyers in any field such as agriculture, education, mining, fishing, tourism, sports, politics and governments. “AI is considered the new electricity because when it was introduced, it changed lifestyles and different industries,” Zila adds. More and more paths are opening for artificial intelligence in the country.

In pursuit of cyber crimes

Today, the most valuable thing businesses and individuals have is their data. Personal information is the most valuable treasure that many criminals or cybercriminals would like to access. In the face of this social problem, the cybersecurity profession emerged. Engineer Rosario Villalta, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at the Peruvian University of Applied Sciences (UPC), explains that this new profession was launched at UPC in response to the need of people and companies to protect their information: “All companies are developing a large number of transactions and operations digitally using the Internet, processes that It gained momentum due to the pandemic.In the same way, those who want to sabotage information, steal information, or commit a criminal act have evolved and new forms of attacks have emerged.

All day long, we are vulnerable to online theft or unauthorized transactions of our money. It is not new to see complaints of citizens who are victims of cybercriminals in the news or on social media. Students interested in technology gaps will be trained by cybersecurity professionals. With curiosity, innovative spirit and solid moral principles, they will be able to outsmart the criminal and prevent future crimes.

Create disruptive applications

Tech giants like Facebook, Google, Apple, and Amazon are companies founded with knowledge of computer science. “It is a modern profession that aims to study algorithms, the ways in which computers structure information to make it innovative. On Facebook you can get more than a million images per second; or on X (formerly Twitter) more than a million tweets.” For the computer to do this, it It is necessary to study algorithms, and the internal way these data structures work,” explains Dr. José Herrera, Director of the Computer Science Specialization at UNMSM.

“This profession has the same network as Harvard, Stanford and other universities in the world with the aim of developing these innovations also in Peru.” To create utilitarian applications like the ones on our mobile phones, it is necessary to know how the algorithm and artificial intelligence inside them work, and that is why this race comes, to give skills and abilities to young people so that they can invent new tools for daily use on their own. “It generates disruptive applications,” says Herrera, anticipating solving the problem of citizen insecurity, predicting natural disasters or organizing the files of the judiciary. Graduates will be able to create their own companies, and why not have a new technological giant on Peruvian soil.