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How Data Collaboration Platforms Can Help Companies Build Better AI

How Data Collaboration Platforms Can Help Companies Build Better AI

José Parra-Moyano, Karl Schmedders, Alex "Sandy" Pentland   MIT Professor Alex Pentland, a BGF Board Member, wrote “How Data Collaboration Platforms Can Help Companies Build Better AI” on Harvard Business Review: There are three immediate challenges for companies that...

Reducing Food Waste in Hotels with Artificial Intelligence

Reducing Food Waste in Hotels with Artificial Intelligence

NATIONAL REPORT—Food waste is enormously costly for hotel owners and managers across the US. Financially, the average kitchen spends 5-15% of food costs on food that is never eaten. From an operational point of view, kitchen staff lose countless hours preparing uneaten food. It also has a huge environmental toll. If food waste were a country it would have more impact on global warming than every country in the world, except China and the U.S.

What if  Amazon’s Rekognition AI Gets It Wrong?

What if Amazon’s Rekognition AI Gets It Wrong?

In general, AI advances are good for our society. In particular cases, they can be bad. Take Amazon’s Rekognition AI service. There are evidences that the service exhibited much higher error rates on images of darker-skinned women versus lighter-skinned men.

AIWS-G7 Summit Initiative submitted to the French Government

AIWS-G7 Summit Initiative submitted to the French Government

The AIWS – G7 Summit Initiative was announced on April 25, 2019 at AIWS-G7 Summit Conference at Loeb House, Harvard University. The Initiative is The Next Generation Democracy – AI World Society.  The AIWS Model envisions a society where creativity, innovation,...

Russia is Now OK with Regulation of Military AI?

Russia is Now OK with Regulation of Military AI?

Two years ago, arms control advocates had reason for hope when scores of countries metat the United Nations in Geneva to discuss the future of lethal autonomous weapons systems, or LAWS. The main goal was to limit or regulate military AI.At the time, Russia was...