By Yasuhide Nakayama | May 6, 2025 Representative of the Boston Global Forum (BGF) in Japan and Taiwan Former Japanese State Minister Yasuhide Nakayama, Representative of the Boston Global Forum (BGF) in Japan and Taiwan, responded to two significant bipartisan bills...
This new device uses light to perform the key operations of a deep neural network on a chip, opening the door to high-speed processors that can learn in real-time. The deep neural network models that power today’s most demanding machine-learning applications have...
IBM’s Chair, CEO and President Ginni Rometty has a powerful message for workers and employers in all strata of society: The Fourth Industrial Revolution is underway and it is shaping up to be one of the most significant challenges and opportunities of our lifetime. We...
To learn who’s taking home the Turing Award, people might turn to their trusted talking bots, like Siri or Alexa. Or, in fact, some of the very technology the three winners helped bring to life. Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun have earned what’s often...
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. Bloomberg...
The council lasted barely more than a week, after thousands of Google employees signed a petition calling for the removal of one member. The Advanced Technology External Advisory Council was set up to “guide responsible development of AI” projects within Google. It...
When Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems start getting creative, they can create great things – and scary ones. Take, for instance, an AI program that let web users compose music along with a virtual Johann Sebastian Bach by entering notes into a program that...
As a “record-breaking” Hannover Messe draws to a close in Germany, organizers have reflected on a successful five-day event, which saw more than 215,000 visitors attend. Artificial Intelligence (AI) in industry and robotics, the potential of the new 5G mobile...