Computer Vision News - June 2023

21 Georgia Chalvatzaki My advice would be to shoot for the stars regardless of the difficulties. If you really want to do something, it does not have to be robotics or AI, whatever it is, you should feel an inner motivation and not get disappointed and lose your courage. You have to be persistent, and you have to be resilient. People that come from Greece, especially after the things that have passed (and also other areas that I could imagine), we have learned how to be resilient, and these are qualities that you can use to your benefit. Keep trying. This is the point. Do not give up, and keep trying! Over 100 inspiring interviews with successful Women in Science! investsomemoney ineducationand into making the universities more self-sustaining. The universities do a very good job in providing us with good foundations, and I think we can see many people that stem from Greece have very good careers outside of Greece. Unfortunately, Greece does not make any effort to go one step further to create facilities so that they can keep people there and advance research. I can imagine, on the one hand, that the main income of Greece is tourism, so everything would go into this infrastructure. They might think that deep learning and robotics are not relevant, but this is very short-sighted because, for example, right now on my island, thehotels havea shortageof people because during Covid many people found other jobs or acquired skills online. They do not want to do the job of cleaning rooms in a hotel, so who is going to do this in the future? You need robots. Also, you need AI systems to become more effective to be able to process bookings and all these things. If we think about it, automation is inevitable, and the countries that do not invest in the direction of science in general – I would put not only AI – are not going to be able to keep up. Unfortunately, this goes for not only my country but also other countries, especially in the south of Europe. You gave your advice to Greece. Now, I would like you to share some advice for a younger student from Greece who wants to succeed.