by BGF | Mar 25, 2019 | AI World Society Distinguished Lecture, Michael Dukakis Institute
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Hitachi Chief Scientist Kazuo Yano is named to deliver
AIWS Distinguished Lecture for 2019 on March 26
Kazuo Yano, Corporate Chief Scientist of Hitachi and a member of AI World Society Standards and Practice Committee will deliver the AI World Society Distinguished Lecture for 2019.
Much of Yano’s watershed work has been focused on quantifying happiness through the deployment of artificial intelligence and big data and applying that knowledge to the corporate environment.
Yano, who is a visiting professor at the University of Tokyo, will speak at 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm, March 26, 2019 at the Hitachi Central Laboratory in Kokubunji, Tokyo, and will focus on establishing AI World Society Standards.
Also speaking will be: Mr.Yuichi Iwata, senior researcher from Nakasone Peace Institute, Mr.Kei Yamamoto, president of D-Ocean and Mr.Yuji Ukai, the president of FFIR.
See agenda below.
Yano is widely regarded for his pioneering work in semiconductors, such as the creation of the first room-temperature single-electron memory in 1993. He also pioneered measurement and analysis of social big data and is the author of, “The Invisible Hand,” one of the top ten business books published in Japan in2014.
The AI World Society Distinguished Lectures
Each year, the Boston Global Forum and the Michael Dukakis Institute organizes – The AI World Society Distinguished Lecture to honor those who have made outstanding contributions in AI that are associated with fostering the Artificial Intelligence World Society (AIWS) 7- Layer Model.
The AIWS Distinguished Lectures focus on ideas and visions of the honorees that brought them to their current position of achievement and highlight, their contribution to shaping the future.
The lecturer will be awarded the Certificate of Honor—the AIWS Distinguished Lecture from the Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation (MDI) and the AIWS Initiative. The annual lectures are retained as part of the historical records at AIWS House, published in an e-book and featured in a special section of the Shaping Futures Magazine.
About MDI – Boston Global Forum
Boston Global Forum (BGF), based in Boston, Massachusetts, was founded to bring together the world’s thought leaders and experts to participate in open public forums to discuss and illuminate the most critical issues impacting the world at large.
BGF’s principal mission is to provide an interactive and collaborative world forum for identifying and developing action-based solutions to our most profound problems. Its method is to host gatherings of thought leaders and experts to identify and explore the most pressing societal concerns and propose creative and practical solutions.
AI World Society Distinguished Lecture
Agenda
4:30 pm: Introduction, Ms. Nobue Mita, Representative of the Boston Global Forum in Japan
Opening Remarks, Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan, Co-Founder, and CEO of the Boston Global Forum, Director of Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation
4:40 pm: AI World Society Standards, Mr. Kazuo Yano, Corporate Chief Scientist, Hitachi, Member of AI World Society Standards and Practice Committee
Also speaking will be: Mr.Yuichi Iwata, senior researcher from Nakasone Peace Institute, Mr.Kei Yamamoto, president of D-Ocean and Mr.Yuji Ukai, the president of FFIR.
5:40 pm: Discussion
6:25 pm: Present Certificate of AI World Society Distinguished Lecturer to Mr. Kazuo Yano by Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan
6:30 pm: Closing Remarks
by BGF | Mar 25, 2019 | News
AI could help college debaters become more persuasive, but experts are divided over the promise of computer-assisted coaching, according to Inside Higher Ed, a media company and online publication that provides news, opinion, resources, events and jobs focused on college and university topics.
Last month marked the first time a machine-versus-man debate competition took place. The machine, Project Debater, is an AI-powered technology implementation of IBM that helps people develop persuasive arguments and make well-informed decisions. Project Debater lost to human Champion Debater Harish Natarajan, but the company hopes that the technology can be useful to college debate. It could be a practice opponent, a research aid, or even a judge of the strength of students’ arguments.
However, not every debate expert is on the same page. An argument is that AI may not understand the full process of argumentation, for example, “shaping and altering the arguments based on the particular audience” (humor, eye contact, delivery and subtlety of argument). Another argument is “debate is both an art and a science”. A debate coach likened the AI’s performance in the live debate to that of a novice debater. It was able to compile all the information but “didn’t know how to use it”.
Important points are also raised about equality and honesty. The technology might only be affordable at the wealthiest institutions, hence, an unfair advantage. It is not sure whether the use of AI would be deemed intellectually honest by college debate judges.
The world of college debate is slow to change. AI for college debate? Too early or harmful? See the full article here.
See the full report on the survey here.
by BGF | Mar 25, 2019 | News
According to Stanford News, last week, Stanford University launched the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) as an interdisciplinary hub for policymakers, researchers, and students.
HAI will be co-directed by AI pioneer and former Google vice president Fei-Fei Li, and former Stanford Provost John Etchemendy. The Institute’s advisory council includes former Alphabet executive chairman Eric Schmidt, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, former Yahoo chief executive Marissa Mayer and co-founder Jerry Yang, and Jeffrey Dean, co-recipient of the 2012 ACM-Infosys Foundation award (now the ACM Prize in Computing).
HAI builds on Stanford’s long-standing expertise in bridging disciplines to tackle complex challenges. Etchemendy said HAI’s “biggest role will be to reach out to the global AI community, including universities, companies, governments, and civil society to help forecast and address issues that arise as this technology is rolled out.”
The AI World Society (AIWS) warmly welcomes the launch of HAI. “One beautiful thing about this world is that it’s made of people of all walks of life and diverse backgrounds,” said Li. “We need all kinds of people to participate and shape our collective future.” At AIWS, we hope to collaborate with HAI one day, so that we could share our ideas and solutions at the policy-making level to bridge disciplines to shape the future.
by BGF | Mar 25, 2019 | News
Machine learning-driven photography together with 3-D sensors’ smartphones will both correct shortcomings of smartphone pictures and also provide some stunning new aspects of photography.
It is possible to take a single image and infer what’s in the scene that’s occluded by another object. Called a “layered depth image,” it can create new scenes by removing an object from a photo, revealing the background that the camera never saw, but that was computed from the image. The approach uses the familiar encoder-decoder approach found in many neural network applications, to estimate the depth of a scene, and a “generative adversarial network,” or GAN, to construct the parts of the scene that was never actually in view when the picture was taken.
Down the road, there will be another stage that will mean a lot in terms of advancing machine learning techniques. It is possible to forego the use of 3-D sensors and just use a convolutional neural network (CNN), to infer the coordinates in space of objects. That would save on the expense of building the sensors into phones.
In the future, with enough 3-D shots, the CNN, or whatever algorithm is used, will be smart enough to look at the world and know exactly what it is like even without help from 3-D depth perception. According to AI World Society (AIWS), AI is a new technology wave and has a strong impact on many aspects of our daily life by enhancing human values with more transparent and accurate information.
by BGF | Mar 25, 2019 | News
Using Internet of Things (IoT) technology, connected devices and artificial intelligence (AI), Carnival company is on a quest to turn cruise ships into “smart cities at sea.”
Carnival provides the Ocean Medallion, that you can carry in a pocket or in a bag or wear it around your wrist, neck or on your belt, is the central element that allows for personalization and the use of technology to elevate the cruising experience on and off the ship.
Internet of Things technology, artificial intelligence, and connected devices and the way they are deployed to provide exemplary personalized service to Carnival cruisers is the way the company hopes to achieve a competitive edge from other cruise lines such as MSC Cruises and Royal Caribbean who are also unveiling their own personalized tech experience.
The benefit of AI with human life and personal experience has also been initiated and promoted by AI World Society (AIWS) and Michael Dukakis Institute (MDI) 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.
