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...

AI Needs More Why

The father of Bayesian networks and probabilistic reasoning, Judea Pearl, published his Book of WHY: The New Science of Cause and Effect last year to suggest that the future of AI depends on building systems with notions of causality. It may seem obvious...

Democratic Alliance on Digital Governance Conference – Protecting and Strengthening Democracy in the Aftermath of COVID-19

Co-chairs of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC) – eg. Sir Iain Duncan Smith, Senator Kimberley Kitching, MEP Miriam Lexmann – will speak and dialog with political leaders and distinguished thinkers to build new alliances and new global...

The Rich Legacy of Alan Turing

As today is the birthday of Alan Turing, AIWS House introduces some writings about him. The article can be found here. The Rich Legacy of Alan Turing by Liat Clark and Ian Steadman, Wired UK Alan Turing achieved more in the space of a few decades than...

United Nations Charter Day Roundtable: The Social Contract 2020, A New Social Contract in the Age of AI, and Intellectual Society

The livestream can be found here. Ramu Damodaran, Chief of United Nations Academic Impact: “We prepare to observe the 75th anniversary of the United Nations, we in the Academic Impact are particularly mindful of the opportunities, challenges and dangers...

Chief of UN Academic Impact and Editor-in-Chief of UN Chronicle Magazine becomes moderator for United Nations 2045 Roundtable

AIWS.net, the Boston Global Forum, and United Nations Academic Impact collaborate to organize the United Nations 2045 Roundtable. This is a content of the United Nations 2045 Initiative. Chief of United Nations Academic Impact and Editor-in-Chief of the...

Impede the Motion of Data and You Impede Innovation

The original article can be found here. Impede the Motion of Data and You Impede Innovation by Ravi Naik Why that is, and what to do about it. Data drives innovation. At scale, innovation does not happen in isolation. Without finely tuned, smartly orchestrated...

The Seven Tools of Causal Inference, with Reflections on Machine Learning

A PDF of this paper can be found here. The Seven Tools of Causal Inference, with Reflections on Machine Learning by Judea Pearl The dramatic success in machine learning has led to an explosion of artificial intelligence (AI) applications and increasing...