by Editor | Jul 21, 2019 | News
As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes an increasing part of our daily lives, it’s no wonder that educational institutions are racing to catch up with the need to develop more talent to keep the engine of AI development running. Increasingly, educational institutions from elementary to higher education as well as adult and professional learning are being transformed by intelligent systems that are helping humans learn better and achieve their learning objectives.
AI systems are being used to tailor and personalize learning for each individual student. Through the power of machine learning based hyperpersonalization, AI systems are being used to develop a custom learning profile of each student and customize the training materials for each student based on their ability, preferred mode of learning, and experience. In addition to customized materials, AI systems are being used to augment tutoring with personal, conversational education assistants. These autonomous conversational agents can answer questions from students, provide assistance with learning or assignment tasks, and reinforce concepts with additional materials that can help reinforce the curriculum.
Regarding to AI applications in Education, Michael Dukakis Institute (MDI) is also working with universities and think tanks to share the commitment to the constructive and development of AI for avoiding bias and obtaining core ethical values in the school system and society in general.
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by Editor | Jul 21, 2019 | News
WeChat is a window into the future of the internet in many different ways. Based in China and boasting over 1.1 billion global users, it’s one of the world’s most advanced and popular apps.
New research from the University of Toronto’s CitizenLab pulls the curtain back on how WeChat’s real-time, automatic censorship of text and images is used to exert control over political discussion on topics ranging from international issues like the trade war with the US to domestic scandals like the disappearance of court documents in a 2018 dispute between two multibillion-dollar Chinese mining companies. All discussion is ultimately subject to the Chinese government’s approval.
Researchers found that newsworthy events like the arrest of a Huawei executive on charges of fraud and the CRISPR-baby scandal in which a Chinese scientist announced the birth of girls with edited genomes triggered waves of censorship. So did a host of other issues, like conflict with the US and domestic corruption or other problems. According to Michael Dukakis Institute (MDI) and AI World Society (AIWS), AI and advanced technology should be applied and developed to promote ethical norms and practices for helping people achieve well-being and happiness, and it could not be used as a real-time automated censorship for digital dictatorship.
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by Editor | Jul 21, 2019 | News
Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation announces the AI World Society (AIWS) Young Leader Program. People under 35 years old in the world can apply and attend projects of AI World Society Initiative as build AIWS Ethics Index, the Social Contract 2020, they also can practice leadership by encouraging communities to contribute, practice initiative of AI World Society to build a better world with deeply applied AI and AI for good.
AIWS Young Leaders will be mentored and assisted by leaders and thought leaders in the world such as Governor Michael Dukakis, President Vaira Vike-Freiberga, professor Thomas Patterson (Harvard), professor David Silbersweig (Harvard), professor Alex Sandy Pentland (MIT), professor Nazli Choucri (MIT), Nguyen Anh Tuan, Kazuo Yano, and more.
Michael Dukakis Institute encourage students of universities, high schools in the world to apply and contribute. AIWS Young Leaders can contribute or attend events from their places through online, they do not need to come to Boston. To apply, please send a letter introduce about yourself and your commitment for AIWS Young Leaders Program to [email protected] from August 1, 2019.
by Editor | Jul 21, 2019 | News
In a discussion to build the Social Contract 2020, Professor David Silbersweig, Academic Dean, Harvard Medical School, contributed ideas toward it.
In Internet, Data, and AI age, citizens and governments are connected with TCP/IP Standard of Internet, the Internet dramatically changed the world, and big data and AI continue transform the world with no boundaries and no physical distance. However, there are still differences in political and societal models around the world. Dangerous conflicts still continue this situation in politics.
For a better world, we need a new democracy and new politics as new societal standards to meet requirements of Internet, big data, and AI age. Every countries need to meet with these new society standards to connect each other. If a nation does not meet these standards, they must to be isolated from the rest of the world.
by Editor | Jul 14, 2019 | News
Vint Cerf, one of the fathers of Internet, discuss about The Social Contract 2020:
Vint Cerf recollects the founding of the idea of the social contract by Rousseau, which is about “what the relationship between citizens and the government is.” The people in theory gave up some autonomy in return for safety and a society, which they live in. It makes sense because if that people have the ability to do whatever they wanted, they can do that and no one is safe, but the other end, little freedom of action and limited opportunity was not a good society either.
He was convinced that the introduction of computer-related things, such as computers, the internet, social media, and AI, created a challenge for both governments and citizens. Citizens need to learn to become more literate, eg. knowing which sources are reliable, or deciding informations from search engines are reliable or not. He also note that cultures may react differently to technological developments.
He states that the solutions to these problems would not lie on algorithms, and that these problems actually stems from our cultural and societal norms. It should be solved by ourselves, via debate and discussion. However, it can only be done when there’s a universal underlying technological understanding, and when bad-faith actors are not of concern.
Issues will not go away when lawmakers and people in power “suppress the deficits”, giving examples such as passing a law and not doing anything after that, or writing an algorithm and leaving it as it is. It can only be done when worked with the culture, and helping people understand how technology can be abused and how they can defend themselves.
Boston Global Forum will introduce ideas and discussions of The Social Contract 2020 in future AIWS Summit segments.
by Editor | Jul 14, 2019 | News
On July 13, 2019, in Cambridge, MA, Governor Michael Dukakis, had dinner and discussed with Vint Cerf, one of the fathers of Internet. Mr. Vint Cerf is honored as World Leader in AI World Society.
Governor Dukakis and Honorary Cerf discussed politics, cybersafe, deepfakes, and new digital currencies at the dinner. This is leading to the building of the Social Contract 2020 that Boston Global Forum and Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation are building, with contribution from top thought leaders of Harvard, MIT, and other top universities.
Governor Dukakis and Mr. Cerf shared ideas and thoughts in these discussions.
by Editor | Jul 14, 2019 | News
Facebook has been dealing with criticism and scrutiny since it unveiled Libra. But the backlash shows that the project is a real wake-up call.
David Marcus, Facebook’s blockchain chief, might have known he’d be playing a lot of defense after Facebook revealed its plans to create a digital currency. But no one can be truly prepared for ending up in the crosshairs of the US president.
The new currency, called Libra, “will have little standing or dependability,” Donald Trump tweeted on Thursday, adding that he’s also “not a fan of Bitcoin and other Cryptocurrencies, which are not money, and whose value is highly volatile and based on thin air.”
“I am not a fan of Bitcoin and other Cryptocurrencies, which are not money, and whose value is highly volatile and based on thin air. Unregulated Crypto Assets can facilitate unlawful behavior, including drug trade and other illegal activity….”
And Senator Sherrod Brown, the highest ranking Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee, recently sent a letter to the chairman of the Federal Reserve in which he argued: “We cannot allow giant companies to assert their power over critical public infrastructure … The Fed must take a proactive role to ensure that the payments system remains accountable to the public.”
Both the House Financial Services Committee and the Senate Banking Committee will hold hearings on Libra next week, and Marcus will testify in both.
Facebook asked for all this scrutiny. After all, it has made a grandiose claim that it is building a new “financial infrastructure” to support billions of people around the world, but has yet to reveal many details about just how it will pull that off. That said, the intensity with which politicians and government bankers are responding to Libra suggests they believe that this vision, or something like it, is plausible.
In other words, it looks as if Libra has been a wake-up call. Even if it doesn’t catch on, it’s likely that some other coin will eventually, perhaps one made by another big tech company. But the point is that many policymakers and central bankers now appear to accept this. Digital currencies will no longer be ignored.
Mr. Vint Cerf, one of the Fathers of Internet, also display concerns about Libra at the discussion on new digital currencies, a part of the Social Contract 2020 on July 13, 2019.
by Editor | Jul 14, 2019 | News
World Leader in AI World Society Award recipient and one of the fathers of Internet, Mr. Vint Cerf, attend two special events at MIT:
July 15: Interspecies Internet Workshop
Vint Cerf, Diana Reiss, Peter Gabriel, and Neil Gershenfeld came together in an unusual collaboration around an Interspecies Internet, presented in this TED talk. This follow-up workshop will gather a community working in this and related fields to review progress since then, present relevant research, and plan future activities. It is co-hosted by MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms, Google, and the Jeremy Coller Foundation. There is no charge to attend but registration will be limited; to apply contact [email protected] with a brief summary of your interest and background.
http://cba.mit.edu/events/19.07.I2I/
July 16: Net@50: The Roots and Future of the Internet
This is a year of internet milestones. Fifty years ago in October, the first message was sent over the ARPANET, the precursor to the internet. The World Wide Web turned 30 in March. And 2019 marks the first year more than half the world’s population—over four billion people—have internet access.
Net@50 is a special two-part gathering taking a critical look at the internet today and where it is heading. More than two dozen of the Internet’s pioneers will be joined by some of today’s leading visionaries. There will likely never be another event like this that honors the internet’s creators while contemplating its future. Join us at the MIT Media Lab and Café ArtScience in Kendall Square for this historic occasion.
This unique gathering of the World Frontiers Forum, in partnership with Xconomy, celebrates the 50th anniversary of the first message over the ARPANET. A half-day public event for approximately 250 will feature keynote talks, chats, and interactive panels that examine the challenges and opportunities facing the Internet’s next 50 years.
A special gala dinner for approximately 150 guests celebrating the more than two dozen attending Internet Pioneers will follow, highlighting the Net’s Boston-area roots.
by Editor | Jul 14, 2019 | News
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the most rapidly growing domains today. Keeping track and taking stock of AI requires not just constant attention, but also the ability to dissect and evaluate across a number of dimensions.
Reinforcement learning (RL) is an area of machine learning that has received lots of attention from researchers over the past decade. It’s been also a big year in natural language processing (NLP): Google AI’s BERT and Transformer; Allen Institute’s ELMo; OpenAI’s Transformer, Ruder and Howard’s ULMFiT, and Microsoft’s MT-DNN demonstrated that pre-trained language models can substantially improve performance on a variety of NLP tasks.
In the future, combining deep learning and domain knowledge is a fruitful avenue of exploration: “Especially when the goal of an AI project is to solve a real-world problem vs. building a general intelligence agent that should learn to solve a talk.” According to AI Ethics report from AI World Society (AIWS), AI 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
