AIWS Summit 2020: The Social Contract 2020 and starting the History of AI project at AIWS.net

Due to COVID-19 Pandemic, every event has to be done online, and so will be AIWS 2020. AIWS 2020 will be from April 28, 2020 to June 6, 2020, starting with a speech by the Speaker of the Swedish Parliament, Andreas Norlén, on April 28, 2020. Distinguished...

Dark, Beyond Deep: A Paradigm Shift to Cognitive AI with Humanlike Common Sense

Yixin Zhu, Tao Gao, Lifeng Fan, Siyuan Huang, Mark Edmonds, Hangxin Liu, Feng Gao, Chi Zhang, Siyuan Qi, Ying Nian Wu, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Song-Chun Zhu Recent progress in deep learning is essentially based on a “big data for small tasks”...

Dr. Andreas Norlén, Speaker of the Swedish Parliament, speaks at AIWS Summit 2020

AIWS Summit 2020 is scheduled to be organized April 26-28, 2020 in partnership with World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid. Due to social distancing and Harvard’s closure in this time, the AIWS Summit 2020 will be done online on April 28, and will...

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Causal Inference that’s not A/B Testing: Theory & Practical Guide

WRITTEN BY Eva Gong Undoubtedly, randomized experimentation (assuming it is conducted properly) is the most straightforward way to establish causality (refer to my previous article on a collection of A/B testing learning resources!). However, practically...

Generalizing Experimental Results by Leveraging Knowledge of Mechanisms

Abstract We show how experimental results can be generalized across diverse populations by leveraging knowledge of mechanisms that produce the outcome of interest. We use Structural Causal Models (SCM) and a refined version of selection diagrams to...

AIWS Roundtable: Solutions to Reopen for Democratic Countries

Time: 9:00 am – 10:00 am (EST), April 22, 2020 Speaker: Alex Pentland, Faculty Founding Director, the MIT Connection Science Co-founder of the AIWS Innovation Network (AIWS.net) and the Social Contract 2020 The Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences,...

The History of AI (HAI) at AIWS.net, Michael Dukakis Institute is the first historical site in AI

Mission: Governor Michael Dukakis said on March 10, 2020 at UCLA: “study history to avoid mistakes from the past, learn great lessons from history for today and tomorrow”. The mission of HAI is to do so, in addition to shaping a better future and...

The History of AI (HAI) at AIWS.net, Michael Dukakis Institute is the first historical site in AI

  Boston, 04/15/2020 Mission: Governor Michael Dukakis said on March 10, 2020 at UCLA: “study history to avoid mistakes from the past, learn great lessons from history for today and tomorrow”. The mission of HAI is to do so, in addition to...