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People + AI Research (PAIR)
The PAIR project is an initiative of Google to research about AI where human input plays an early role in the learning process of an AI system. According to its website, PAIR is “interested in the full spectrum of human interaction with machine intelligence, from supporting engineers to understanding everyday experiences with AI.” PAIR provides a guidebook to help build human-centered AI products, which should focus on five aspects: User needs + defining success: identify user needs, find AI opportunities, and design your reward function Mental models: introduce users to the AI system and set expectations for system-change over time Feedback + control: design feedback and control mechanisms to improve your AI and the...
MIT and U.S. Air Force sign agreement to launch AI Accelerator
MIT and the U.S. Air Force have signed an agreement to launch a new program designed to make...
From Sensing to Sensemaking: Converging Big Data with Plant AI
As process industries across the world become more connected, networked, and integrated, there has...
International Relations in the Cyber Age: The Co-Evolution Dilemma
Professor Nazli Choucri, MIT, Board Member of the Boston Global Forum and Michael Dukakis Institute...
TECH COMPANIES SHAPING THE RULES GOVERNING AI
IN EARLY APRIL, the European Commission published guidelines intended to keep any artificial...
Artificial Intelligence Can Now Copy Your Voice: What Does That Mean For Humans?
It takes just 3.7 seconds of audio to clone a voice. This impressive—and a bit alarming—feat...
Can optical computing be the next breakthrough in AI acceleration?
As neural networks and machine learning continue to take on new challenges from analyzing images...
International Relations in the Cyber Age, the first book ever by a political scientist and a computer scientist
Professor Nazli Choucri, MIT, and Board Member of the Boston Global Forum and Michael Dukakis...
WILL AI ENHANCE OR HACK HUMANITY?
THIS WEEK, I interviewed Yuval Noah Harari, the author of three best-selling books about the...
Wonderful meeting between the father of Internet, Vint Cerf, and Nguyen Anh Tuan
On May 8, 2019, on behalf of the Boston Global Forum, Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan – the CEO of the Boston...
White House Started Developing AI Standards
The administration wants public feedback to help shape the National Institute of Standards and...
The new benchmark quantum computers must beat to achieve quantum supremacy
Physicists are confident that a quantum computer will soon outperform the world’s most powerful...
Jeff Bezos has unveiled Blue Origin’s lunar lander
He revealed details about the company’s new rocket, engine, and lunar lander at a private event...
People are calling for Zuckerberg’s resignation. Here are just five of the reasons why
Facebook has been beset by scandals over the last year and many believe that nothing will change...
A new way to build tiny neural networks could create powerful AI on your phone
We’ve been wasting our processing power to train neural networks that are ten times too...
Who to Sue When a Robot Loses Your Fortune
The first known case of humans going to court over investment losses triggered by autonomous...
Facebook will open its data up to academics to see how it impacts elections
More than 60 researchers from 30 institutions will get access to Facebook user data to study...