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”...

Data versus Science: Contesting the Soul of Data-Science

SummaryThe post below is written for the upcoming Spanish translation of The Book of Why, which was announced today. It expresses my firm belief that the current data-fitting direction taken by “Data Science” is temporary (read my lips!), that the...

Race, COVID Mortality, and Simpson’s Paradox (by Dana Mackenzie)

Summary This post reports on the presence of Simpson’s paradox in the latest CDC data on coronavirus. At first glance, the data may seem to support the notion that coronavirus is especially dangerous to white, non-Hispanic people. However, when we take...

Study finds strong evidence for a causal link between long-term exposure to fine air particles and greater mortality in elderly Americans

A new analysis of 16 years of publicly accessible health data on 68.5 million Medicare enrollees provides broad evidence that long-term exposure to fine particles in the air – even at levels below current EPA standards – leads to increased...

Presentation of Miriam Lexmann: The world have learned hard lessons from China and should accept some sacrifices to maintain democratic values

Ms. Miriam Lexmann, MEP, co-chair of Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China, was the lead speaker of the Democratic Alliance on Digital Governance Conference, July 1, 2020, organized by the Boston Global Forum. She criticized the China regime abusing a...

Artificial intelligence: The dark matter of computer vision

What makes us humans so good at making sense of visual data? That’s a question that has preoccupied artificial intelligence and computer vision scientists for decades. Efforts at reproducing the capabilities of human vision have so far yielded results...

Democratic Alliance on Digital Governance – Initial ideas to discuss

Building a Democratic Alliance on Digital Governance is one of the concepts of the Social Contract 2020, A New Social Contract in the Age of AI, and of the Democratic Alliance on Digital Governance Conference. These are some initial ideas to be discussed...