Like most other sectors of Pakistan’s economy, the artificial intelligence sector is dominated by men. But Mehwish Salman Ali, the CEO of Data Vault Pakistan, is trying to change that — one code at a time.
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00:00So, we are introducing regional plus Urdu languages to the world.
00:25So, for example, if there is a woman who only speaks a Saraiki language or a Pashto language,
00:30she can ask GPT in Pashto language whatever she needs as well.
00:33Isn't it great?
00:34And that GPT is going to answer you according to your culture, according to your values.
00:48I guess the entire world is male-dominated, but West is doing a lot of things to include
00:52women.
00:53In Pakistan, I see there is a lot of resistance still.
00:58We are growing, but I guess we need more time to be there.
01:12Society will label you as characterless for that, just because you are a woman.
01:15If a man is working entire night into the office, he's a hero.
01:18See how hard is he working, see how beautifully he is managing everything, but when a woman
01:23does the same, it's not accepted in the same way by the society.
01:32I'm not saying that I will give a woman a priority if her skills are low, but I'm saying
01:36if the skills are the same of both men and women, then I will give a priority to women,
01:40because definitely we all need more women into our industry.