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.”
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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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by Editor | Sep 5, 2022 | Global Alliance for Digital Governance
On September 16, 2022, Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP) will be hosting the Global Emerging Technology Summit. The purpose of the Summit is to bring together government and private sector leaders from the United States and our staunchest allies and partners to ensure that emerging technologies help advance freedom, strengthen democracies, and protect the rules-based order.
Alongside a series of cutting-edge tech demos, the day’s sessions will shed further light on the future of geopolitics, democracy, and technology. Last week SCSP announced a remarkable lineup of speakers, including Jake Sullivan, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, Eva Kaili, VP of the European Parliament, and Sir Alex Younger, former Chief of the UK’s Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). This week, SCSP was thrilled to announce more speakers: Jack Clark, Co- founder of Anthropic AI; Stacey Dixon, Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence; Anshu Roy, CEO of Rhombus; Wendy R. Sherman, Deputy Secretary of State; Eric Schmidt, SCSP Chair; Henry Kissinger, former U.S. Secretary of State; and H.R. McMaster, Lieut. Gen., U.S. Army (retired), Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution.
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 inSocial Contract for the AI Age, inAI International Accord and in the book Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment.
by Editor | Aug 28, 2022 | News
VLAB Innovation creates a series of special digital works about Prime Minister Ehud Barak, a Global Enlightenment Leader, in Vietnam.
Ehud Barak had a distinguished trip to Vietnam from August 2 to 19, 2022, holding great meetings and discussions, speaking to leaders, thought leaders, and students.
These are landmarks of his trip: meeting with President Nguyen Xuan Phuc, speaking at Hanoi Opera House, visiting General Vo Nguyen Giap’s House and discussing with Mr. Vo Hong Nam, Son of General Giap, in Hanoi.
by Editor | Aug 28, 2022 | News
On August 16, 2022 ,the United Nations Secretary-General has appointed 10 high-level and eminent persons to serve on his inaugural Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Leadership Panel.
Father of the Internet Vint Cerf, 2019 World Leader in AIWS Award recipient and a Distinguished Contributor to Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment, and former Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves, 2017 World Leader for Peace and Security Award recipient, are members of IGF Leadership Panel and BGF Global Enlightenment Leaders.
Vint Cerf contributed the chapter “A People-Centered Economy” for the book. In it, he wrote:
“We will need an international call for an operation in order to induce and introduce this people-centeredness into the use of artificial intelligence, because we will and use these techniques on a global scale.”
“So now we have to figure out what the international agreements are going to be, not only to deal with the abuses of the internet and its applications, but also the potential abuses of machine learning. And that is going to require some deep thought and some deep understanding and some dependence on technologists who are much smart than I am, about how those technologies could be abused and what we can do to both detect and defend against that. And so as we design a people-centered and artificially intelligent world, where the tools get smarter and smarter, we will have to think our way through exactly that set of problems.”
