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AIWS Brands and Values Board: Shaping History in the Age of AI

AIWS Brands and Values Board: Shaping History in the Age of AI

The AIWS Brands and Values Board, established by the Boston Global Forum (BGF) and the AI World Society (AIWS), is a cornerstone initiative recognized within the AIWS History of AI House. It underscores that the evolution of AI is not just a story of technology but...

Lessons for people in the 21st century by Bari Weiss

Lessons for people in the 21st century by Bari Weiss

Recently, an Op-Ed staff editor and writer at New York Times was invited to a talk with Yuval Noah Harari, philosopher and international author of “Sapiens” and “Homo Deus” to discuss the vision of his latest work “21 lessons for the 21st Century” surrounding the...

Google introduced its first bilingual AI assistant

Google introduced its first bilingual AI assistant

Google released the latest AI assistant which different from its competiors such as Apple’s Siri or Microsoft’s Cortana in the ability to switch simultaneously between two languages. Nearly seven months after its announcement in February this year, the newest version...

AI can speculate an area’s obesity level from its infrastructure

AI can speculate an area’s obesity level from its infrastructure

An AI algorithm is developed to estimate a city’s obesity rate by analyzing satellite images of its buildings.   A research group at the University of Washington analyzed images from Google Maps of four cities in U.S (Los Angeles, California; Memphis, Tennessee; San...

How blockchain affects creative industries positively?

How blockchain affects creative industries positively?

Blockchain could be a trusted ledger as every action is transparent to everyone. In some creative industries, it can act as a platform for the intellectual property. Many people have known of blockchain and how it works as a technology developed for the cryptocurrency...

Germany will launch an agency on cyber-defense

Germany will launch an agency on cyber-defense

In August 2018, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government announced that Germany will invest €200 million in 5-year time on an agency to develop cyber capabilities. Chancellor Angela Merkel is Germany's first female chancellor and one of the leading figures of the...