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The Metaverse: How To Build Something We Can All Gain From

Is the metaverse more than just a catchy buzzword? Can companies and regulators build something safe, engaging and useful? We speak to Cathy Li, head of Media, Entertainment and Sport at the World Economic Forum, who is leading an initiative called Defining and Building the Metaverse. That is bringing together companies, governments and civil society around the world, to discuss possible futures for the metaverse. The first fruits of that work will be unveiled in Davos in January. Source: World Economic Forum

“AI For Impact” Lives Up To Its Name

For entrepreneurial MIT students looking to put their skills to work for a greater good, the Media Arts and Sciences class MAS.664 (AI for Impact) has been a destination point. With the onset of the pandemic, that goal came into even sharper focus. Just weeks before the campus shut down in 2020, a team of students from the class launched a project that would make significant strides toward an open-source platform to identify coronavirus exposures without compromising personal privacy. Their work was at the heart of Safe Paths, one of the earliest contact tracing apps in the United States. The…

Top 10 Artificial Intelligence Courses, Certifications & Classes Online [2021]

Looking to learn Artificial Intelligence skills? One of these AI courses, certifications or training programs will help you gain proficiency and prepare you for a promising career in artificial intelligence and machine learning. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the skill of the future. It has been estimated that by 2030, AI market will contribute more than $15 trillion to the world economy. There is a huge skill shortage in the field of artificial intelligence therefore if you are entering the workforce, getting skilled in AI can guarantee a promising future-proof career. For those already in the workforce, re-skilling and up-skilling with…

How To Create Trust In Artificial Intelligence Using Open Source

Opening up the “black box” helps remove uncertainties about AI outcomes, providing insight into the modeling process and identifying biases and errors. Artificial intelligence (AI) is being used more frequently in our daily lives, with systems such as Siri and Alexa becoming commonplace in many households. Many households themselves are “smart,” powered by devices that can control your lights, heating and air, and even the music playing. And those music players are powered by AI that recommends songs and artists you may like. However, these systems are often referred to as “black box” systems because we do not know how…

How To Get More Electric Cars On The Road

A new study from researchers at MIT uncovers the kinds of infrastructure improvements that would make the biggest difference in increasing the number of electric cars on the road, a key step toward reducing greenhouse gas emissions from transportation. The researchers found that installing charging stations on residential streets, rather than just in central locations such as shopping malls, could have an outsized benefit. They also found that adding on high-speed charging stations along highways and making supplementary vehicles more easily available to people who need to travel beyond the single-charge range of their electric vehicles could greatly increase…

Urban Infrastructure: Keeping Economies And People Healthy

The way we live and, crucially, where we live, is changing fast. In 1950, 746 million people around the world lived in cities. Today, 3.9 billion do – and that figure is expected to increase by a further 2.5 billion by 2050. The world is moving from spacious, green, rural lives to condensed, concrete urban ones. Putting the numbers into context – in just 100 years, the population of our cities will have grown by 88% – to 6.4 billion. This rapid urbanization presents many challenges. One of the most urgent is how to provide infrastructure solutions that can cope with the…

AI Makes Huge Progress Predicting How Proteins Fold – One Of Biology’s Greatest Challenges – Promising Rapid Drug Development

Takeaways A “deep learning” software program from Google-owned lab DeepMind showed great progress in solving one of biology’s greatest challenges – understanding protein folding. Protein folding is the process by which a protein takes its shape from a string of building blocks to its final three-dimensional structure, which determines its function. By better predicting how proteins take their structure, or “fold,” scientists can more quickly develop drugs that, for example, block the action of crucial viral proteins. Solving what biologists call “the protein-folding problem” is a big deal. Proteins are the workhorses of cells and are present in all living…

Taking Care Of Business With Responsible AI

In less than 10 years, some predict that Artificial Intelligence (AI) may be the #1 driver of global GDP growth1. This is a staggering prediction. Over this next decade, we will see incredible adoption and innovation; in fact, applications that aren’t AI-enabled may feel broken. Despite this excitement, I have seen first-hand that trust in AI is a growing barrier to adoption for enterprises. In a survey of global business executives, over 90% reported encountering ethical issues in connection with adoption of an AI system. Of these, 40% abandon the project completely2. Without robust evaluation of ethical concerns and responsible…

Data Systems That Learn To Be Better

Big data has gotten really, really big: By 2025, all the world’s data will add up to an estimated 175 trillion gigabytes. For a visual, if you stored that amount of data on DVDs, it would stack up tall enough to circle the Earth 222 times. One of the biggest challenges in computing is handling this onslaught of information while still being able to efficiently store and process it. A team from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) believe that the answer rests with something called “instance-optimized systems.” Traditional storage and database systems are designed to work for a wide range…

Inaugural AI Research Grants Advance Transformational Projects In Education, Health Care And Government

The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) today announced six inaugural recipients of the Hoffman-Yee Research Grant Program, a multiyear initiative to invest in research that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to address real-world problems. The projects were selected for their boldness, ingenuity and potential for transformative impact. The grantees comprise interdisciplinary teams of faculty members, postdoctoral scholars and graduate students spanning the Schools of Business, Education, Engineering, Humanities and Sciences, Law and Medicine. Philanthropists Reid Hoffman and Michelle Yee are providing foundational support for the grants. “The Hoffman-Yee Research Grant Program is helping to drive new collaborations across campus, harnessing AI…

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