by Editor | Jan 6, 2020 | News
Here is the highlight from President Vaira Vike-Freiberga’s essay:
The only thing missing in the AI world is Smart people who will be smarter all on their own, without aid or support of electronic props and prostheses. Who needs to be able to quote poetry or remember any facts, when they can be instantly summoned by a few flips of the finger? But what happens to human faculties when they all but go dormant, especially after a certain number of generations? There used to be a story told to biology students about a species of salamander that had been discovered in underground caves completely cut off from any access to daylight. Not surprisingly, they were completely white, without the least trace of pigment in their skins. Equally unsurprisingly, they were also blind. The reason for this, however, was not just an atrophy of visual functions, but the total loss of eye development early in their embryonic development. The moral of the story is that morphological structures as well as the functions they perform will atrophy without use, that is, without continued feedback from the environment in which they had originally evolved.
This is why it is comforting to know that UNESCO has already started to work on a vast program which will delineate the features of the kind of Education for Tomorrow that humans will need in the next century. We have to be careful, as a species, that we do not lose all the advantages that millions of years of evolution have left as our heritage, whether through inertia, laziness or overweening pride and arrogance. And, while we are at it, of course we also have to think of preserving our planet in a shape where it continues to be fit for human habitation. The planet will not care whether its dominant species are humans, salamanders or cockroaches. We are the ones who do care. Or should.
On December 31, 2019, the essay of President of World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid and former President of Latvia, Vaira Vike-Freiberga, for United Nations 2045 project, was published on AIWS Innovation Network (AIWS-IN) at Section AIWS Social Contract 2020 and United Nations 2045.
https://aiws.world/ai-in-the-next-century-of-the-un/482/
by Editor | Jan 6, 2020 | News
AI is rapidly spreading throughout civilization, where it has the promise of doing everything from enabling autonomous vehicles to navigate the streets to making more accurate hurricane forecasts. On an everyday level, AI figures out what ads to show you on the web, and powers those friendly chatbots that pop up when you visit an e-commerce website to answer your questions and provide customer service. And AI-powered personal assistants in voice-activated smart home devices perform myriad tasks, from controlling our TVs and doorbells to answering trivia questions and helping us find our favorite songs.
But we’re just getting started with it. As AI technology grows more sophisticated and capable, it’s expected to massively boost the world’s economy, creating about $13 trillion worth of additional activity by 2030, according to a McKinsey Global Institute forecast.
“AI is still early in adoption, but adoption is accelerating and it is being used across all industries,” says Sarah Gates, an analytics platform strategist at SAS, a global software and services firm that focuses upon turning data into intelligence for clients.
According to Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation (MDI), AI technology can be a force for helping people achieve well-being and happiness, unleash their potential, obtain greater freedom, relieve them of resource constraints and arbitrary/inflexible rules and processes, and solve important issues, such as SDGs.
The original article can be found here.
by Editor | Jan 6, 2020 | News
The Brazilian government has taken another step towards the creation of public policies around artificial intelligence (AI).
A national AI strategy will be created as a response to the worldwide race for leadership in the field and the need to discuss the future of work, education, tax, research and development as well as ethics as the application of related technologies becomes more pervasive.
A public consultation has been launched to gather input around how AI can solve the country’s main issues, identify priority areas of focus for the development and use of the technologies, as well as limits for it.
According to the summary on the purpose of the consultation, which ends on January 31, 2020, the government understands that AI can bring improvements to the country’s competitiveness and productivity, as well as the provision of public services, quality of life and to reduce social inequality in the southern hemisphere’s biggest economy.
Brazil adheres to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)’s human-centred AI Principles, which provide for recommendations around areas such as transparency and explainability.
Regarding to Artificial Intelligence for Government, Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation (MDI) established AI World Society (AIWS) to design Government AIWS Ethics and Practices Index for tracking the AI government activities in terms of transparency, regulation, promotion and implementation for constructive use of AI.
The original article can be found here.
by Editor | Dec 30, 2019 | News
On Global Cybersecurity Day December 12, 2019, at Loeb House, Harvard University, Professor Nazli Choucri, MIT, a co-founder of the AIWS Social Contract 2020 and AIWS Innovation Network, presented updated ideas of the AIWS Social Contract 2020.
The AIWS Social Contract 2020 will be officially launched and presented at AIWS Summit 2020, April 28-29, 2020 at Harvard University. This event will be co-organized by the Boston Global Forum and World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid, the largest forum of more than 100 head of states, head of governments of democracy countries, including Bill Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev, Jimmy Carter, etc.
The video can be found here.
by Editor | Dec 30, 2019 | News
On Global Cybersecurity Day, December 12, at Loeb House, Harvard University, at the launching of AI World Society (AIWS) Innovation Network, the Assistant Secretary of Business Development and International Trade, Government of Massachusetts, Mr. Nam Pham, congratulated AIWS Innovation Network and spoke on AI and cybersecurity. The Government of Massachusetts is one of the sponsors of AIWS Innovation Network.
The video can be found here.
by Editor | Dec 30, 2019 | News
The Boston Global Forum (BGF) greatly thank you for your significant contributions to BGF and MDI crucial initiative in 2019 such as AIWS Social Contract 2020 and AIWS Innovation Network. We wish you and your family a very Happy New Year. We look forward to welcome you to AIWS Summit on April 28-29, 2020 at Harvard University. The event is co-organized by World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid and the Boston Global Forum with participation of head of states, governments, and distinguished thinkers, to discuss about AIWS Social Contract 2020 and AIWS Innovation Network. Governor Michael Dukakis and President Danilo Turk are the co-chairs of the AIWS Summit 2020.
by Editor | Dec 30, 2019 | News
Techiexperts highlights of the trends and predictions for AI in 2020 include:
Integration of Blockchain, IoT, and Artificial Intelligence
Integration of AI to other technologies is one of the main concerns in the past. Today, experts have found a way to fuse Artificial Intelligence with other systems more effectively.
One of these advancements is the activation and regulation of certain devices, which enables you to gather real-time data. In 2020, you can run more AI features in vehicles. The same thing goes for Blockchains that can generate certain routine using AI to address security, scalability, and other alarming concerns.
The AIWS Innovation Network will connect key AI actors and provide services that can assist in the development of AI.
By key actors, we refer to influential AI end users, including governments, corporations and non- profit organizations, and to AI experts, including thought leaders, scholars, creators, and innovators.
By services, we refer to such activities as providing advice on AI projects, assisting in developing solutions to AI problems, offering training in AI subjects, and connecting AI event organizers with speakers.
Services will also include periodic conferences, forums, and roundtables on AI topics; development of AI apps, etc.
Improved AI System Assistance
This is one of the biggest improvements you should expect in 2020. Experts have predicted that AI system assistance will be more streamlined including the automation for customer service and other sales tasks.
While we now have popular assistants powered by AI such as Siri, Alexa, Waze, and Cortana, more and more investors are still working with some of the best AI software developers.
By next year, you can expect more apps and programs with Artificial Intelligence system, which enables you to perform various tasks. In fact, ComScore mentioned that more than half of all searches can be sorted out using voice commands by 2020.
AIWS Social Contract 2020 introduced 7 centers of power, one of them being AI Assistants.
The original article can be found here.
by Editor | Dec 30, 2019 | News
Recent successes in machine learning (ML) have led to a new wave of artificial intelligence (AI) applications that offer extensive benefits to a diverse range of fields. However, many of these systems are not able to explain their autonomous decisions and actions to human users. Explanations may not be essential for certain AI applications, and some AI researchers argue that the emphasis on explanation is misplaced, too difficult to achieve, and perhaps unnecessary. However, for many critical applications in defense, medicine, finance, and law, explanations are essential for users to understand, trust, and effectively manage these new, artificially intelligent partners.
Recent AI successes are largely attributed to new ML techniques that construct models in their internal representations. These include support vector machines (SVMs), random forests, probabilistic graphical models, reinforcement learning (RL), and deep learning (DL) neural networks. Although these models exhibit high performance, they are opaque in terms of explainability. There may be inherent conflict between ML performance (e.g., predictive accuracy) and explainability. Often, the highest performing methods (e.g., DL) are the least explainable, and the most explainable (e.g., decision trees) are the least accurate.
The purpose of an explainable AI (XAI) system is to make its behavior more intelligible to humans by providing explanations. There are some general principles to help create effective, more human-understandable AI systems: The XAI system should be able to explain its capabilities and understandings; explain what it has done, what it is doing now, and what will happen next; and disclose the salient information that it is acting on.
Regarding to explainable AI applications, Artificial Intelligence World Society (AIWS) also designed the AIWS Ethics and Practices Index to track the AI activities in terms of transparency, regulation, promotion and implementation for constructive use of AI.
The original article can be found here.
by Editor | Dec 30, 2019 | News
By now, almost everyone knows a little bit about artificial intelligence, but most people aren’t tech experts, and many may not be aware of just how big an impact AI has. The truth is most consumers interact with technology incorporating AI every day. From the searches we perform in Google to the advertisements we see on social media, AI is an ever-present feature of our lives.
To help nonspecialists grasp the degree to which AI has been woven into the fabric of modern society, 12 experts from Forbes Technology Council detail some applications of AI that many may not be aware of.
- Offering Better Customer Service
- Personalizing The Shopping Experience
- Making Recruiting More Efficient
- Keeping Internet Services Running Smoothly
- Protecting Your Finances
- Enhancing Vehicle Safety
- Converting Handwritten Text To Machine-Readable Code
- Improving Agriculture Worldwide
- Helping Humanitarian Efforts
- Keeping Security Companies Safe From Cyberattacks
- Improving Video Surveillance Capabilities
- Altering Our Trust In Information
According to Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation (MDI), AI applications are important for human daily life to help people achieve well-being and happiness, relieve them of resource constraints and arbitrary/inflexible rules and processes, and solve important issues, such as SDGs.
The original article can be found here.
