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Chinese regulators are giving the country’s AI firms a leg up
Governance
Chinese GenAI firms have to clear many hurdles to succeed, but the country’s government supports them - in contrast to the EU and US - and is taking active measures to do so, while also crafting less arbitrary policies and requirements, says Hong Kong Law Prof Angela Huyue Zhang.
Angela Huyue Zhang  |  Nov 13 , 2023
Medical field takes first steps toward tackling ‘hallucination’ by LLMs
Domain knowledge
‘Hallucination,’ which refers to LLMs and other AIs presenting falsehoods as seemingly plausible facts, is a grave problem and one yet to be resolved. This becomes especially urgent when patients’ lives are at stake, although hope is at hand, writes ML developer Moein Shariatnia.
Moein Shariatnia  |  Nov 10 , 2023
Creating intelligence in a laboratory is no longer a pipe dream
Brain science
Artificial intelligence is one thing, but what if it were possible to create actual, biological intelligence in a laboratory? While this may be beyond today’s technology, that will not always be the case. Doctor, neuroscientist, and medical writer Ahmad M. Nazzal weighs in.
Ahmad Nazzal  |  Nov 09 , 2023
Interview: Internet Society Director Callum Voge talks human rights online
People
Domen Savič, director of Citizen D, which promotes digital rights, communication privacy and digital security, media regulation and citizen participation in politics, interviewed Callum Voge, the Internet Society’s director of government affairs and advocacy.
Callum Voge, Domen Savič  |  Nov 08 , 2023
An adaptive mindset is an indispensable component of AI ethics
Cognition
The first part of this multi-part article series focuses on The Adaptive Mindset part of the Agile Leadership Framework™ introduced in the previous article, writes Dr Frank Lee Harper, Jr, AI thought leader and provost and vice chancellor at Cambridge Corporate University.
Frank Lee Harper  |  Nov 07 , 2023
AI is stealthily redefining, revolutionizing auditory health
Game-changers
The hard of hearing are struggling to cope, but AI Is at last promising to transform this predicament for around 2.5 billion people by 2050, writes Ganes Kesari, entrepreneur, AI thought leader, author, adjunct professor, and founder of data science advisor Innovation Titan.
Ganes Kesari  |  Nov 06 , 2023
Federated graph neural networks ease the data burden of AI training
Optimization
Federated networks form models in which several separate networks or locations share resources via central management frameworks to enforce consistent configurations and policies. Anna Saranti, a postdoc researcher at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna, explains their workings.
Anna Saranti  |  Nov 03 , 2023
The United Nations is ready to play its part
Governance
Leading AI nations in attendance have reached a world-first agreement establishing a shared understanding of the opportunities and risks posed by frontier AI. The Secretary-General of the UN comments during day one of the UK AI summit.
António Guterres  |  Nov 03 , 2023
AI healthcare startups are already having a transformative impact
Emerging markets
Most AI-driven healthcare startups are not household names, yet their impact is far from negligible. Ahmed Zahlan, a Fulbright Scholar doing his PhD on AI healthcare startups at the Columbia Business School, assesses the situation and drops some names to keep an eye on.
Ahmed Zahlan  |  Nov 02 , 2023
Top AI and policy experts call for an international AI safety treaty
Optimization
A league of AI VIPs has signed an open letter urging an AI safety treaty. Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio and The Yuan’s contributors Gary Marcus and David Wood joined with many others to call for setup of a working group at the UK AI safety Summit now underway as a first step.
Ben Armour  |  Nov 02 , 2023
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Janna Lipenkova
Janna Lipenkova
Janna Lipenkova is a computational linguist who speaks seven languages. She heads two companies, Anacode and Equintel, that use AI to deliver cutting-edge business intelligence and guide clients towards smarter decisions, strategy, and execution.
Philip M. Parker
Philip M. Parker
Philip M. Parker is Professor of Marketing at INSEAD and the INSEAD Chaired Professor of Management Science.His research explores why existing theories governing macroeconomic growth and firm level competition yield unreliable forecasts of actual market outcomes. He introduced the idea that physical sciences should be directly integrated into macroeconomic studies.
Ganes Kesari
Ganes Kesari
Ganes Kesari is an entrepreneur, AI thought leader, author, adjunct professor, and TEDx speaker. He is the founder of Innovation Titan, a data-science thought leadership and advisory firm. He advises executives on data-driven leadership and helps organizations adopt a culture of data for decision-making.
Johannes Walter
Johannes Walter
Johannes Walter is head of department and scientific director of digitalization and digital association development at Diakonie Baden as well as associate professor at IU International University of Applied Sciences. His research focuses on AI in healthcare and digital transformation in the social and healthcare sector.
Nikolaj van Omme
Nikolaj van Omme
Nikolaj van Omme is chief executive officer of Funartech, an AI startup that provides creative solutions to complex industrial problems by combining machine learning and applied mathematics. He is a strong proponent of hybrid methods and approaches, in particular the hybridization of machine learning and operations research.
Shanen Boettcher
Shanen Boettcher
Shanen Boettcher is a former General Manager of Microsoft’s Startup Business Group, which oversees the innovation of Microsoft’s core businesses. He also holds a PhD in human-machine communication and AI from the University of St Andrews, and has experience operationalizing strategy, developing global award-winning products, building tools and guidance for high-tech startups at Responsible Innovation Labs, and working as a product strategist for AI21 Labs, a leading artificial intelligence and large language model startup.
Austin Lentsch
Austin Lentsch
Austin Lentsch is a policy fellow at MIT’s Blueprint Labs.
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Keena Patel-Moran
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