In 2019, Google introduced a reading tutor app for young students in India, powered by Artificial Intelligence. Seeing a classroom full of children discovering a love for books with the help of AI was a moment I’ll never forget. By that time, Google had been investing...
Japan’s Ukraine visit: Roundup on the Four Pillars
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...
The Public Voice: AI, Ethics, and Fundamental Rights
On October 23rd, 2018, The Public Voice Symposium on AI, Ethics, and Fundamental Rights was successfully completed under the moderation of “Public Voice Coalition”. This is a meaningful event held in conjunction with the 40th International Conference of Data...
A Robot’s testimony about AI in front of UK Parliament
Softbank developed a robot named Pepper to be the first humanoid to testify in front of the UK Parliament about AI. Since the beginning of the fourth industrial, considerable changes have been made, bringing about benefits as well as challenges for human. One of the...
Establishing an AI ethical standards will be more challenging than expected
As people’s morals are different depending on their origin and class, some legal scholars argue ethics are too subjective for AI to follow in the conversation at the AI Now 2018 Symposium. It is essential that AI need to follow standards to ensure the safety of...
A bot pretends to be a software developer to write patches
KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm has built a bot called Repairnator that surpass human in finding bugs and writing bug fixes. A robot programmer known as Repairnator, can fix bugs so well that it can compete with human engineers. This can be considered a...
Who should AI kill during a car crash? It depends on your culture
In 2014, The Moral Machine was launched by MIT Media Lab to generate data on people’s insight into priorities from different cultures. After four years of research, millions of people in 233 countries have made 40 million decisions, making it one of the largest...
Mikko Hypponen: Cybersecurity efforts should not be overlooked
Mikko Hypponen, a renowned authority on computer security and the Chief Research Officer of F Secure, was invited by Tomorrow’s Capital to discuss cybercrime and its pace of thriving. Mikko Hypponen – The Chief Research Officer of F Secure, who was awarded the...