Ambassador Swanee Hunt spoke about human beings and classical music for the AIWS City

At the United Nations 2045 Roundtable, moderated by Ramu Damodaran, Chief of the United Nations Academic Impact, on October 27, 2020, Ambassador Swanee Hunt brought a moving and emotional talk about Maestro Charles Ansbacher, her husband, bringing classical...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – “Learning Multiple Layers of Representation” by Geoffrey Hinton was published

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – “Learning Multiple Layers of Representation” by Geoffrey Hinton was published in October 2008. The paper proposed new approaches to deep learning. In place of backpropagation, another concept Hinton...

Statistical tools for valid causal inference with fewer assumptions

The original article can be found here. Causal inference is important in medical research to help determine if treatments are beneficial and if natural exposures are harmful. In many settings, data collection makes causal inference difficult without making...

The AIWS City – a model for cities of 2045

The United Nations 2045 Roundtable United Nations 2045 Initiative – UNleashed 2045: The United Nations at 100 The AIWS City – a model for cities of 2045 Time: 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT, October 27, 2020 This is a United Nations 2045 Roundtable...

Special Side Event “Quad Roundtable” at the Riga Conference 2020: “The Quad Group, AIWS Social Contract and solutions for world peace and security”

The Quad Roundtable is a special side event of the Riga Conference 2020, Session Quad Roundtable” the Quad Group, AIWS Social Contract and solutions for world peace and security”, co-organized by the Latvian Transatlantic Organisation (LATO) and the...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – the sudden collapse of the market for specialised AI hardware

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – the sudden collapse of the market for specialised AI hardware in 1987. This is due to the fact that computers from Apple and IBM became more powerful than Lisp machines and other expert systems. In the...

AIWS.net and the AIWS City at AI World Government Conference and Expo 2020

AI World Government VIRTUAL: October 28-30, 2020 AI World Government provides a comprehensive three-day virtual forum to educate public sector agencies on proven strategies and tactics to deploy AI and cognitive technologies. Gather with leaders from...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – David Rumelhart, Geoffrey Hinton, and Ronald Williams published “Learning representations by back-propagating errors”

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – David Rumelhart, Geoffrey Hinton, and Ronald Williams published “Learning representations by back-propagating errors” in October 1986. In this paper, they describe “a new learning procedure, back-propagation,...

Causally Colored Reflections on Leo Breiman’s “Statistical Modeling: The Two Cultures” (2001) https://projecteuclid.org/download/pdf_1/euclid.ss/1009213726

Enticed by a recent seminar on this subject, I have re-read Breiman’s influential paper and would like to share with readers a re-assessment of its contributions to the art of statistical modeling. When the paper first appeared, in 2001, I had the impression...