by Editor | Sep 15, 2019 | News
On World Reconciliation Day September 9, 2019, the Roundtable “Framework for Peace and Security in the 21st Century” was co-hosted by Consulate General of Greece in Boston and co-chaired by Governor Michael Dukakis, Co-founder and Chairman of the Boston Global Forum, and Consul General of Greece in Boston, Stratos Efthymiou.
Thought leaders, such as Professor Stephen Walt, Harvard Kennedy School; Professor Nazli Choucri, MIT; Professor Thomas Patterson, Harvard Kennedy School; Professor Constantine Arvanitopoulos, former Minister of Education and Culture of Greece, the Karamanlis Chair at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University; Professor Christo Wilson, Northeastern University, Harvard Law School, Michael Dukakis Leadership Fellow; Professor Thomas Creely, Naval War College; Barry Nolan, Adviser of US Congress; and Nguyen Anh Tuan, Co-founder and CEO of the Boston Global Forum; attended the event.
After opening remarks by Consul General Stratos Efthymiou and leading talks by Governor Dukakis and Professor Stephen Walt, participants discussed the threats and challenges to peace and security and contribute ideas and solutions to solve them to build a framework in the 21st century. One of most challenging opposition to peace and security is dictatorship and totalitarianism of China. Democracy, openness, transparency, accountability, responsibility, international laws, norms. decentralization of power, promotion of citizens, and civic societies are very important for peace and security, and the world today need a new social contract, a new model to meet the rapidly changing society, which contains deep-applied AI and is connected by Internet.
AI World Society Model and The Social Contract 2020 are considered as parts of the Framework. The Boston Global Forum will continue discussing with thought leaders around the world and will officially launch the Framework for Peace and Security in 21st Century in Spring 2020 at Harvard University.
by Editor | Sep 15, 2019 | News
On World Reconciliation Day Sept 9, 2019, the Roundtable “Framework for Peace and Security in the 21st Century”, co-hosted by Consulate General of Greece in Boston and co-chaired by Governor Michael Dukakis, and Consul General of Greece in Boston, Stratos Efthymiou, was attended by thought leaders from Harvard, MIT, Tufts, Northeastern University, Naval War College, and the Boston Global Forum. They discussed ideas and solutions to solve challenges and threats to building a framework for peace and security in the 21st century. Democracy, openness, transparency, accountability, responsibility, and international laws and norms are very important for peace and security. Professor Christo Wilson spoke about technological threats and challenges, such as unregulated tech and Internet, centralised platforms, data problems, erosion of norms, etc.
In the world with deep-applied AI and is connected by Internet, a new social contract, such as the Social Contract 2020, and model of the AI World Society are important parts of the Framework for Peace and Security in the 21st Century. The Boston Global Forum and Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation will organize an AI World Society Conference on September 23, 2019 at Harvard University Faculty Club to discuss concepts of The Social Contract 2020, and Professor Alex Sandy Pentland will speak about concepts of the Social Contract 2020 at World Leadership Alliace-Club de Madrid Conference on 21 October, 2019 in Madrid, Spain, which is the organization of former heads of state and government, and AI World Conference and Expo 2019 in Boston, the industry’s largest and most comprehensive independent AI business event.
by Editor | Sep 15, 2019 | News
There are many fascinating insights from Dresner Advisory Services’ 6th annual 2019 Data Science and Machine Learning Market Study published last month. The study found that advanced initiatives related to data science and machine learning, including data mining, advanced algorithms, and predictive analytics are ranked the 8th priority among the 37 technologies and initiatives surveyed in the study.
- Marketing and Sales prioritize AI and machine learning higher than any other department in enterprises today.
- In-memory analytics and in-database analytics are the most important to Finance, Marketing, and Sales when it comes to scaling their AI and machine learning modeling and development efforts.
- R&D’s adoption of AI and machine learning is the fastest of all enterprise departments in 2019.
“The Data Science and Machine Learning Market Study is a progression of our analysis of this market which began in 2014 as an examination of advanced and predictive analytics,” said Howard Dresner, founder, and chief research officer at Dresner Advisory Services. “Since that time, we have expanded our coverage to reflect changes in sentiment and adoption, and have added new criteria, including a section covering neural networks.”
The original article can be found here.
According to Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation (MDI), AI is an important tool to support society and enterprises in multiple domains including R&D, Marketing, Sales, and Customer Engagement etc. In this effort, MDI invites participation and collaboration with think tanks, universities, non-profits, firms, and other entities that share its commitment to the constructive and development of AI.
by Editor | Sep 15, 2019 | News
Computer vision is one of the most popular applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Image classification, object detection and object segmentation are some of the use cases of computer vision-based AI. These techniques are used in a variety of consumer and industrial scenarios. From face recognition-based user authentication to inventory tracking in warehouses to vehicle detection on roads, computer vision is becoming an integral part of next-generation applications.
Computer vision uses advanced neural networks and deep learning algorithms such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), Single Shot Multibox Detector (SSD) and Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN). Applying these algorithms requires a thorough understanding of neural network architecture, advanced mathematics and image processing techniques. For an average ML developer, CNN remains to be a complex branch of AI.
For the Vision AI Developer Kit, Microsoft and Qualcomm have partnered to simplify training and deploying computer vision-based AI models. Developers can use Microsoft’s cloud-based AI and IoT services on Azure to train models while deploying them on the smart camera edge device powered by a Qualcomm’s AI accelerator.
The original article can be found here.
Microsoft ensured that the developer experience in training and deploying models to the Vision AI Development Kit is simple yet powerful. Developers with no experience in computer vision can also get started with the kit. The device acts as a perfect testbed to learn the core concepts of computer vision-based AI. This AI application is also aligned with AI World Society (AIWS) standards, which always promote AI technology to user-centric and ethical development. This will help people achieve well-being and happiness, as well as solve important issues, such as SDGs.
by Editor | Sep 8, 2019 | News
In July 2019, VietNamNet journalist Nguyen Thi Lan Anh interviewed Governor Michael Dukakis, Co-Founder and Chairman of the Boston Global Forum, about solutions for peace and security in the South China Sea. China’s redeployment of a government-owned survey vessel, together with armed escorts, into waters offshore Vietnam near Vanguard Bank on August 13, is an escalation by Beijing in its efforts to intimidate other claimants out of developing resources in the South China Sea (SCS). Morgan Ortagus, a spokesperson of State Department, said:
“The United States is deeply concerned that China is continuing its interference with Vietnam’s longstanding oil and gas activities in Vietnam’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) claim. This calls into serious question China’s commitment, including in the ASEAN-China Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea, to the peaceful resolution of maritime disputes.”
Governor Michael Dukakis said in the interview: “The world needs standards, and countries need to connect on the basis of common standards. There is no perfect model at the moment, but it is necessary to accept the best model available, thereby continuing to improve it. If you do not accept common social standards, it will cause conflicts and disputes.”
The article can be found here.
by Editor | Sep 8, 2019 | News
Governor Michael Dukakis, Co-founder and Chairman of the Boston Global Forum, and Consul General of Greece in Boston, Stratos Efthymion, will co-chair a roundtable discussion to build a framework for peace and security in the 21st century. The Boston Global Forum, Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership, and Innovation and Greece Consulate General in Boston are co-hosting this Roundtable on World Reconciliation Day at 5:30 pm, September 9, 2019 at the Greece Consulate.
Professor Stephen Walt, Harvard Kennedy School; Professor Nazli Choucri, MIT; Professor Thomas Patterson, Harvard Kennedy School; Professor David Silbersweig, Harvard Medical School; Professor Constantine Arvanitopulos, Tufts, Former Minister of Greece; Professor Thomas Creely, Naval World College; and AI World Society Young Leaders will join.
Participants will discuss about threats and challenges of peace and security, solutions to solve these threats, and propose ideas for Framework for Peace and Security in the 21st Century.
On World Reconciliation Day September 9, 2017 at Harvard University Faculty Club, the Boston Global Forum was proposed an initiative for peace and security in the Korean Peninsula.
by Editor | Sep 8, 2019 | News
In August 2019, the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School published the paper “Attacking Artificial Intelligence: AI’s Security Vulnerability and What Policymakers Can Do About It” by Marcus Comiter.
Christo Wilson, Associate Professor, Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University, a team member of the Social Contract 2020, and a Michael Dukakis Leadership Fellow, comments on this report:
“This is a pretty decent report. My only quibble is their term “AI attack” — in the cybersecurity community, these attacks are known as “adversarial learning”. If you look up the former term you won’t find anything, but the latter term will turn up all the relevant academic literature. The resident expert on adversarial learning at Northeastern is Alina Oprea, formerly of RSA Labs. I’m happy to make an introduction if it’s useful.
The problems outlined in the report are very real. Machine learning, wonderful as it can be, is also surprisingly brittle and downright dumb. One of my favorite examples is the case where a researcher fabricated an odd looking pair of sunglasses: when worn, it caused a facial recognition system to erroneously identify them as a celebrity. Adversarial learning is one of the hottest topics in cybersecurity at the moment, and there is an equal amount of work being done to identify new attack vectors, as well as harden machine learning systems against attacks. It’s still early days though, and there’s a lot of work to be done on both sides.”
by Editor | Sep 8, 2019 | News
Over sixty years ago, A Dartmouth professor named John McCarthy coined a term that would become an enormously successful, and problematic, marketing slogan: artificial intelligence. The term AI is now ubiquitous in the technology industry. Its use bears little relation to the things with which McCarthy was concerned, and it’s often used to sex-up stuff that has little to with what practitioners of artificial intelligence care about.
Today’s use of the term AI in industry often has nothing to do with that. If one digs into the details, many things that are claimed to be AI are nothing more than the application of statistics to large quantities of data to try and find patterns. That can be a worthwhile endeavor in itself, but it’s not necessarily very forward-looking. It’s more likely to be a novel application of well-developed methods within statistics and programming.
AI will stick around in the language for the foreseeable future because it can be a useful catch-all phrase for techniques at the edge of computer science, what Minsky referred to as just trying stuff out until something works. Just remember that when you hear the term used in industry, it doesn’t actually denote a Terminator, and most of the time it doesn’t even mean cutting-edge computer science. Most of the time, it’s just hype.
The original article can be found here.
According to Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation (MDI), AI can be an important tool to serve and strengthen democracy, human rights, and the rule of law. However, its misuse could undermine those ideals. In this effort, MDI invites participation and collaboration with think tanks, universities, non-profits, firms, and other entities that share its commitment to the constructive and development of AI.
by Editor | Sep 8, 2019 | News
Healthcare systems have evolved rapidly during the last decade and are now providing a variety of benefits to patients throughout the globe. This is because the healthcare industry has embraced artificial intelligence and is currently utilizing its many applications to provide a better and safer experience to patients suffering from different ailments.
However, while discussing the benefits of Artificial Intelligence (AI) brings to the healthcare industry, one shouldn’t forget that all that glitters isn’t gold. According to Bob Kocher, MD, an adjunct professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine, “if we are not careful, AI could…unintentionally exacerbate many of the worst aspects of our current healthcare system.” This doesn’t mean the advantages of AI should be ignored.
We need to remember that AI is highly dependable on machine learning algorithms; only a person, a specialized doctor, in this case, can view a patient holistically and consider several other factors before coming up with a treatment plan. Plus, as Eliezer Yudkowsky, the co-founder of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, warns, “By far, the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it”. It’s imperative that professionals have a comprehensive knowledge of the system they’re using and are familiar with ways to secure it. Hence, while the benefits of AI to the healthcare industry are no doubt numerous, AI, according to HitConsultant, should assist, not replace professional doctors in the healthcare industry.
The original article can be found here.
There are various pros and cons of AI to the healthcare industry to arrive at a more comprehensive decision, which is also highlighted and promoted by AI World Society (AIWS) for developing ethical AI applications to help people achieve well-being and happiness, as well as solve important issues, such as SDGs.
