Dear Friends, Colleagues, and Partners in Leadership, As the United States approaches its 250th anniversary, we stand at a defining moment—one not only for America, but for the entire world. History has shown that when the United States rises to moments of...
Ten years ago, Jürgen Schmidhuber introduced the concept of the reinforcement learning (RL) prompt engineer, an adaptive mechanism through which an RL controller learns to actively query a neural world model to support abstract reasoning and decision-making. This...
Professor Thomas Patterson, co-founder of Boston Global Forum and AIWS.net, will speak about his new book “Is the Republican Party Destroying Itself?” at 10:00 am (EST), May 5, 2020 at AIWS.net. The moderator is Mr. Barry Nolan, member of the Boston Global Forum...
In a pair of papers accepted to the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2020, MIT researchers investigated new ways to motivate software agents to explore their environment and pruning algorithms to make AI apps run faster. Taken together, the...
As researchers pursued the inevitable AGI in machines, there has been a renewed interest in the idea of causality in models. There are significant implications to applying machine learning to problems of causal inference in fields such as healthcare, economics and...
“What we need now is critical thinking. We have brains. God gave us brains. We shouldbe using them. Critical thinking is hard work.” On April 22, 2020, Vint Cerf, Vice President and Chief Evangelist of Google, Father of the Internet, and World Leader in AIWS Award...
Blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) solve different tasks, but they can work together to improve many processes in the financial services industry, from customer service to loan application reviews and payment processing. Adopting AI and blockchain...
Artificial intelligence owes a lot of its smarts to Judea Pearl. In the 1980s he led efforts that allowed machines to reason probabilistically. Now he’s one of the field’s sharpest critics. In his latest book, “The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect,” he...