AI model detects COVID-19 infection in people’s voices

AI model detects COVID-19 infection in people’s voices

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.

https://bit.ly/3UgrNfP

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NIST Releases New Draft of Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework for Comment

NIST Releases New Draft of Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework for Comment

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

Harvard Professor David Silbersweig, co-founder of AIWS City, speaks at the Opening Ceremony of Academic Year 2022-2023 of Vietnam National University at Hanoi

Harvard Professor David Silbersweig, co-founder of AIWS City, speaks at the Opening Ceremony of Academic Year 2022-2023 of Vietnam National University at Hanoi

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/

“Revived the spirit of Massachusetts”: Governor Dukakis remembers Queen Elizabeth’s historic visit

“Revived the spirit of Massachusetts”: Governor Dukakis remembers Queen Elizabeth’s historic visit

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/

‘Art is dead, dude’: AI-generated picture wins art prize, angering artists

‘Art is dead, dude’: AI-generated picture wins art prize, angering artists

“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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