Minh Nguyen is the Editor of the Boston Global Forum and a Shinzo Abe Initiative Fellow. She writes the Four Pillars column in the BGF...
AIP Conference Celebrates Nha Trang’s 100th Anniversary with Focus on AIWS Angel
Nha Trang, Vietnam - On March 15, 2024, the Telecommunications University in Nha Trang (TCU), in collaboration with the Khanh Hoa Union of Science & Technology Associations (KUSTA), will host a landmark conference at the Army Innovation Park (AIP) to commemorate...
The industry shaping the future of AI?
Industry has mobilized to shape the science, morality and laws of artificial intelligence. On 10 May, letters of intent are due to the US National Science Foundation (NSF) for a new funding programme for projects on Fairness in Artificial Intelligence, in collaboration with Amazon. In April, after the European Commission released the Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI, an academic member of the expert group that produced them described their creation as industry-dominated “ethics washing”.
This chip was demoed at Jeff Bezos’s secretive tech conference. It could be key to the future of AI
Recently, on a dazzling morning in Palm Springs, California, Vivienne Szetook to a small stage to deliver perhaps the most nerve-racking presentation of her career.
Japan’s Abe signals shift on North Korea, says will meet Kim without conditions: media
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has said he is ready to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un without conditions to end long-running mistrust between their countries, the Sankei newspaper reported on Friday.
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.
Artificial Intelligence in Medical Robotics – Current Applications and Possibilities
AI applications in healthcare are becoming more common for white-collar automation and diagnostics. However, medical robotics is an area that may be marginally underdeveloped. This is likely because of regulations concerning automated surgery.
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.