Ashraf AboArafe
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, represented by the Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority “SDAIA”, organizes the first global version of the International Olympiad for Artificial Intelligence (IAIO) with the participation of more than 25 countries, starting from Sunday until Thursday, September 8 to 12, 2024, in cooperation with the International Center for Research and Ethics in Artificial Intelligence (ICAIRE) and the International Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (IRCAI) in Slovenia, under the auspices of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
SDAIA aims to organize this international Olympiad to be an international platform for competitions in the field of artificial intelligence, embracing talents and developing their skills, and to be a forum that brings together scientists and interested people from all over the world to exchange experiences, develop skills, and learn about the latest developments.
Sadaya also aspires for this Olympiad to be the first nucleus for its launch in various countries of the world in the future, as it is a distinctive step to motivate young men and women around the world to participate, to form a new generation with a deep understanding of artificial intelligence technologies that have become part of our daily lives and business sector systems. In preparation for the Olympiad, Sedaya organized several virtual lectures in the field of artificial intelligence through the Olympiad website with the aim of qualifying the international teams participating in the competition, and enabling interested students from different countries of the world to benefit from these lectures to expand their knowledge in this vital field. The lectures lasted for 5 weeks and included the following topics: Introduction to AI, Social impact of AI (ethics, fairness), Kernel Methods, Working with Data, Deployed deep generative models, Supervised learning, AI-Search, Learning Evaluation, Reinforcement learning, and Unsupervised Learning. Each country will participate with a team of up to 4 students, and students will compete individually over two days during the third edition of the Global AI Summit. The first day of the competition will be dedicated to scientific questions, and on the second day, students will solve scientific problems using AI technologies through a platform specially designed for this purpose. The International Artificial Intelligence Olympiad (IAIO) comes within the framework of SDAIA’s efforts to enhance the Kingdom’s global position as a leading country in the field of data and artificial intelligence, and to achieve the goals of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 2030 aimed at raising awareness of the importance of these advanced technologies and providing communities with the knowledge and skills necessary to master them.
