by Editor | Sep 18, 2022 | News
Artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to detect COVID-19 infection in people’s voices by means of a mobile phone app, according to research to be presented on 5 September at the European Respiratory Society International Congress in Barcelona, Spain. It was especially noteworthy as the presentation by Ms Wafaa Aljbawi, a researcher at the Institute of Data Science, Maastricht University, The Netherlands, came during “Women in Medicine” month observed by the American Medical Association.
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by Editor | Sep 18, 2022 | Global Alliance for Digital Governance
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released the second draft of its Artificial Intelligence (AI) Risk Management Framework (RMF) for comment. Comments are due by September 29, 2022.
The AI RMF was designed and is intended for voluntary use to address potential risks in “the design, development, use and evaluation of AI products, services and systems.” NIST envisions the AI RMF to be a “living document” that will be updated regularly as technology and approaches to AI reliability to evolve and change over time.
The Global Alliance for Digital Governance (GADG) was established through a collaboration of the Boston Global Forum and World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid at the Policy Lab on September 7-9, 2021.
GADG do:
Coordinate resources: governments, international organizations, corporations, think tanks, civil society, and influencers for AI and a digital sphere for good, to make these resources more effective, to synthesize and maximize their impact, and to create more implementation-oriented conferences.
Protect fundamental values and standards proposed in Social Contract for the AI Age, in AI International Accord and in the book Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment.
https://www.nist.gov/system/files/documents/2022/08/18/AI_RMF_2nd_draft.pdf
by Editor | Sep 11, 2022 | News
On the morning of September 5, 2022, the leaders of AIWS City attended the Opening Ceremony Academic Year 2022-2023 of the School of the Social Sciences and Humanities of Vietnam National University at Hanoi.
The Boston Global Forum CEO Nguyen Anh Tuan and Harvard Medical School Professor David Silbersweig, co-founders of AIWS City, presented speeches at the Opening Ceremony.
Professor David Silbersweig and Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan wish the students success in their studies, becoming future intellectuals, thinkers, leaders and creators.
View the speech by Professor David Silbersweig here: https://vlabinnovation.com/videos/
by Editor | Sep 11, 2022 | News
July 11, 1976, was a day for the history books. It was the first trip to the United States from a British Monarch, and the first stop for Queen Elizabeth was Boston, Massachusetts.
“People talk about the Miracle in Massachusetts, but when did it begin? The morning of July 11, 1976,” former Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis told WBZ.
He’s almost 90-years-old now, but remembers Queen Elizabeth’s visit like it was yesterday.
One memory in particular still makes him chuckle. “Whatever you do, never touch her,” he said were the instructions from the Queen’s people. “Never touch her.”
But Dukakis nearly had to break that rule when he says the Queen started to slide down the exit ramp of the Royal Yacht after it parked in the Charlestown Navy Yard. “I must have been kind of leaning forward, because I wasn’t going to let her fall, I don’t care what the folks said,” he joked. Fortunately, Queen Elizabeth caught herself at the end of the ramp without falling, and without Dukakis breaking the rules.
He told WBZ Queen Elizabeth’s trip to Boston came at the perfect time in 1976. “Things were rough around here,” he said. “I mean, the economy was in terrible shape and we were not doing well, and there was something about her arrival here and her spending a day with us that had a profound effect on us.”
Still, he recognizes the irony. “She was particularly popular here in the United States, you know? Our former ‘enemy’ several centuries ago,” he explained.
https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/queen-elizabeth-boston-visit-jack-williams-michael-dukakis/
by Editor | Sep 11, 2022 | News
“AI-generated art has been around for years. But tools released this year — with names like DALL-E 2, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion — have made it possible for rank amateurs to create complex, abstract or photorealistic works simply by typing a few words into a text box.”
Read more at https://bit.ly/3x1u2tB
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by Editor | Sep 11, 2022 | Global Alliance for Digital Governance
U.S. President Joe Biden, announced on Friday, Sept 2, the winners of a $1B economic development competition and announced the recipients for projects in areas like clean energy, tech, and AI. 21 winners will receive grants of $25M to $65M.
Additionally, private sector companies and local organizations are investing in The “Build Back Better Regional Challenge” is a program under the $1.9T American Rescue Plan, a stimulus package signed by President Biden in March.
AI projects included: A Georgia Tech Research Corporation coalition awarded $65M for AI efforts across Georgia’s industrial sectors and The Southwestern Pennsylvania New Economy Collaborative will receive $62.7M for projects in robotics and autonomy.
These developments of economic stimulation in AI reinforces the White House’s commitment to AI and if you are not already aware of AI.gov it is an important site which provides a wealth of information – from policy documents and strategies, to applications of AI, to the latest news and updates from the agencies and federal advisory boards helping shape the activities of the National AI Initiative. Created by Congress, the National AI Initiative seeks to sustain U.S. leadership in AI research and development, ensure the United States leads the world in the development and use of trustworthy AI in the public and private sectors, and prepare the present and future U.S. workforce for the integration of AI systems across all sectors of the economy and society.
The Global Alliance for Digital Governance (GADG) was established through a collaboration of the Boston Global Forum and World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid at the Policy Lab on September 7-9, 2021.
GADG do:
Coordinate resources: governments, international organizations, corporations, think tanks, civil society, and influencers for AI and a digital sphere for good, to make these resources more effective, to synthesize and maximize their impact, and to create more implementation-oriented conferences.
Protect fundamental values and standards proposed in Social Contract for the AI Age, in AI International Accord and in the book Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/cindygordon/2022/09/03/usa-white-house-president-joe-biden-advances-regional-innovation-in-cleantech-energy-and-ai/?sh=72c810b519bc
by Editor | Sep 5, 2022 | News
The Boston Global Forum introduces a special digital work about Prime Minister Ehud Barak, a Global Enlightenment Leader, from Vietnam trip.
Ehud Barak had a distinguished trip to Vietnam from August 2nd to 19th, 2022, holding great meetings and discussions and speaking to leaders, thought leaders, and students.
This is a landmark of the trip: meeting with Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan, CEO of the Boston Global Forum, at the Dalat Palace on August 10th, 2022 to discuss the Shinzo Abe Initiative for Peace and Security.
Distinguished digital works of the Age of Global Enlightenment are recognized at the House of Honor in AIWS City.
by Editor | Sep 5, 2022 | News
September 4th was the birthday of Professor Judea Pearl. The Boston Global Forum congratulates his 86th birthday to him, the 2020 World Leader in AIWS Award recipient, a Distinguished Contributor to Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment, and a Global Enlightenment Leader.
Judea Pearl is a noted computer scientist and philosopher, who gained international reputation for his work in the field of artificial intelligence, causality and Bayesian Networks. An Israeli-American, Pearl is recognized as one of the giants in the field of artificial intelligence by fellow UCLA professors. This is primarily because his work revolutionized the understanding of causality in fields of statistics, psychology, medicine and the social sciences. Interested in the philosophy of science, knowledge representation, nonstandard logics, and learning, he came up with a high-level cognitive model. His pioneering contribution in the field of artificial intelligence can be matched to none. He has been bestowed with numerous scientific awards and prizes including Association for Computing Machinery A.M. Turing Award, which is the highest distinction in computer engineering.
by Editor | Sep 5, 2022 | News
Rick Blum, the Robert W. Wieseman Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Lehigh University, “seeks to bring efficiency to distributed learning techniques emerging as crucial to modern artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). In essence, his goal is to hurl far fewer grains of data without degrading the overall impact.” Read more at https://bit.ly/3AGmFcb
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