Renowned scholar and BGF Global Enlightenment Leader, Professor Thomas Patterson, will speak as a distinguished speaker at the upcoming conference hosted by the AI Park (AIP) in Nha Trang, Vietnam, marking the momentous occasion of the city's 100th anniversary....
Open Call for AIWS Youth Fellowship Applications Academic Year 2024
1. Board of Organizers 1.1. About Boston Global Forum and AIWS The Boston Global Forum (BGF), founded in 2012, is a visionary think tank dedicated to addressing global challenges through collaborative efforts of thought leaders from diverse sectors, including...
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 was announced by Chinese tech giant Baidu. A year ago, the company’s voice cloning tool called Deep Voice required 30 minutes of audio to do the same. This illustrates just...
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 posted on social media to driving cars, there’s increasing interest in creating hardware that are tailored for AI computation. The limits of current computer hardware has...
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 Institute for Leadership and Innovation, also a very active member of AIWS Standards and Practice Committee, and David Clark, a pioneer of the Internet, MIT, have launched a...
WILL AI ENHANCE OR HACK HUMANITY?
THIS WEEK, I interviewed Yuval Noah Harari, the author of three best-selling books about the history and future of our species, and Fei-Fei Li, one of the pioneers in the field of artificial intelligence. The event was hosted by the Stanford Center for Ethics and...
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 Global Forum, held a meeting with Mr. Vint Cerf, “the father of Internet”, Vice President, Chief Internet Evangelist of Google, to award him with the World Leader in AI...
White House Started Developing AI Standards
The administration wants public feedback to help shape the National Institute of Standards and Technology-led effort. The Trump administration wants the public to weigh in on standards and tools needed to advance intelligent technology. The White House Office of...