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How to solve AI’s “common sense” problem

How to solve AI’s “common sense” problem

"In their new book Machines Like Us, computer scientists Ronald J. Brachman and Hector J. Levesque discuss their view and potential solution to this missing piece of the AI puzzle, which has eluded researchers for decades. In an interview with TechTalks, Brachman...

WORLD PEACE OR PERPETUAL WAR: THE CHOICE AHEAD

(BGF) -  On July 21, 2014, Governor Michael Dukakis, Chairman of Boston Global Forum made a speech at the International Political Science Association Annual Conference, Montreal, and proposed six things to do to build a world at peace and not perpetual war. Please...

Asian fears of China’s rise Jittery neighbours

(BGF) - According to The Economist,  a global survey covered 44 countries, 11 of them in Asia, which was done by the Pew Research Centre, an American polling organization, revealed that Japan, the Philippines and Vietnam see China as the biggest security threat to...

Report: Chinese Hackers hit US personnel networks

(BGF) - The Associated Press (AP) has recently reported on a series of network breaches in which Chinese hackers attempted to access the personal information of thousands of employees (working in the US government Office of Personnel Management) applying for...

THE EX-GOOGLE HACKER TAKING ON THE WORLD’S SPY AGENCIES

(BGF) - In a Wired article, Andy Greenberg covers 34 year-old Morgan Marquis-Boire, who among other things, has been instrumental in the creation of the Tor network that hides user location, has worked on combatting the Aurora breach at Google, and has always been...

The dangers of an ascendant China

(BGF) - In a commentary published in the Vietnam media, Vietnamese official Bui Duc Lai criticized China for its provocative behaviors of deploying drilling rig in the Vietnamese Exclusive economic zone. He also noted that China is on its way to achieve its goal of...

The U.S., Europe, and China

(BGF) - Will Europe have a strong enough voice in resolving disputes in the East Asia, or just leave it to the U.S? The Harvard professor Joseph Nye, member of the Boston Global Forum's Board of Thinkers, shared his view in the course of BGF's one month length...