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Establishment of the Indo-Pacific Spark Club

Establishment of the Indo-Pacific Spark Club

The Wilson Center's Wahba Institute for Strategic Competition and the Boston Global Forum launch the Indo-Pacific Spark Club, a prestigious network of business leaders from across the Indo-Pacific region. This club is dedicated to fostering a peaceful, secure, and...

Amateur Dota 2 players have been defeated by a team of AI algorithms

Amateur Dota 2 players have been defeated by a team of AI algorithms

The algorithmic A team called the OpenAI Five was developed by OpenAI. The team has shown its initial achievement, gaining a victory over amateur Dota 2 players in testing. What makes this win significant is that besides individually learning how to play the game,...

Ethics are extremely important as technologies thrive

Ethics are extremely important as technologies thrive

Mustafa Suleyman, Co-founder of DeepMind, calls for the awareness of ethical standards for technology development. Rapid technological advances continue to make contributions to society’s well-being, but we must also  be mindful of public opinion. The founder of...

List of concrete problems in AI safety

List of concrete problems in AI safety

As machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) creates fast-paced innovation, a paper named “Concrete Problems in AI Safety,” originally released 2 years ago, presents problems related to AI use and misuse. . Two years ago, researchers from Google, Stanford, UC...

How to be empowered by AI?

How to be empowered by AI?

Max Tegmark - the professor at MIT, a member of MDI’s AIWS Standards and Practice Committee who spoke at The BGF-G7 Summit of Boston Global Forum in April, 2018 - was invited to talk about AI in TED 2018. As AI research has advanced at a fast pace, many researchers...