It took four decades for television to become popular, and the same happened with the radio, the car… but it took less than a decade for the smartphone and social networks. Twitter, Netflix, Facebook managed to reach 100 million users in 1500 days, and Instagram and TikTok in less than 1000 days. And one of the records was set by ChatGPT: in 45 years it reached 100 million users worldwide.

And that is that what used to take 200 years to become widespread has taken less over time, even now taking a year, according to Flumarketing founder and digital strategist, Andrés Silva.

This panorama was part of the International Forum on Economics and Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Sales that took place on June 5 in Samborondón, where the importance of implementing artificial intelligence (AI) in education, business and even in everyday life was discussed.

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According to the speaker, it is important to educate people to create their own companies. “Let’s prepare the public for this new era,” Silva said, mentioning several success stories that decided to create their own companies, such as the Uruguayan entrepreneurs who created PedidosYa and the Colombians with Rappi. “Let’s have more people like this, but to have more of these people, we need to change the education system (for) people who develop divergent, creative thinking and innovation and these new technologies so they can create their own business models,” he said. he said. Silva.

He also indicated that it is important for citizens to “absorb these issues”, and then exert pressure on public opinion and then put it on the agenda of “politicians”. “If we don’t create that pressure, it will be very difficult,” he said.

Eduardo Salgado, executive president of Mediken, the company that organized the forum, said that AI is exponential and referred to ChatGPT being used for various applications in everyday life and business, but believes that it is essential to implement it as a privacy policy of the State, especially on level of education.

“The law should be reformed in order to include the topics of technology, digitization, and artificial intelligence in the study program, so that from childhood they have models and education and concepts so that when they grow up they will be more productive in the lives of children, students and as businessmen,” he said.

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For Salgado, AI “must lead us to be able to work for ourselves and not depend” only on the state or private companies, as he believes the technology will reduce the number of ordinary jobs.

“We need to create an ecosystem in a country like Ecuador for people to take the journey and the wave of technology and artificial intelligence so that in the future they can be productive people and contribute to social security or their own savings,” he said.

According to Silva, as a reference, AI is currently still in its “infancy” stage in terms of progress, so “we haven’t seen anything, so we have to prepare, and it’s also progressing very quickly.” , the transition from childhood to adulthood will last a decade,” he emphasized.