Ambassador Ichiro Fujisaki calls for leadership of the US in the world

There were recommendations and suggestions from this conference to establish alliances to protect and strengthen democracy to face threats that undermine democracy and threats from China. In July, there were statements and speeches of leaders echoing...

Probabilistic Programming and Bayesian Inference for Time Series Analysis and Forecasting in Python

The original article can be found here at Towards Data Science Probabilistic Programming and Bayesian Inference for Time Series Analysis and Forecasting in Python: A Bayesian Method for Time Series Data Analysis and Forecasting in Python – by Yuefeng...

Radical Empiricism and Machine Learning Research

A speaker at a lecture that I have attended recently summarized the philosophy of machine learning this way: “All knowledge comes from observed data, some from direct sensory experience and some from indirect experience, transmitted to us either culturally...

United Nations 2045 Initiative – Building a Trustworthy Economy

Dr. Ramu Damodaran, Chief of United Nations Academic Impact, chaired and moderated a fascinating UN 2045 Roundtable on July 24, 2020. Alex Pentland, Professor of MIT Connection Science, Co-founder of AIWS.net, presented a new model, term: The Trustworthy...

President Ecuador discussed about the Social Contract 2020

President of Ecuador Jamil Mahuad discussed about the Social Contract 2020 at Democratic Alliance on Digital Governance Conference on July 1, 2020, organized by the Boston Global Forum, with attendence of legislators, leaders, and distinguished thinkers....

UN2045: Building a Trustworthy Economy

Today’s financial systems are not trusted by citizens because they are inherently unstable and winner-take-all, so for most people the system offers only failure.  Today, new digital technologies allow the fine-grain feedback needed to build systems...

AI’s struggle to reach “understanding” and “meaning”

Deep learning is very good at ferreting out correlations between tons of data points, but when it comes to digging deeper into the data and forming abstractions and concepts, they barely scratch the surface (even that might be an overstatement). We have...

Sir Iain Duncan Smith’s speech at the Democratic Alliance on Digital Governance Conference

British MP Sir Iain Duncan Smith criticized China and saw China as a big threat and peril to the peace and security of the world in his speech at the Democratic Alliance on Digital Governance Conference on July 1, 2020. Governor Michael Dukakis, co-founder...

Professor Joseph Nye at the Democratic Alliance on Digital Governance Conference

On July 1, 2020, at Democratic Alliance on Digital Governance conference, Professor Joseph Nye, Member of the BGF Board of Thinkers, Mentor of AIWS.net, presented his view about US-China relations in the section “New Alliance, New Order, New Democracy”...