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Comprehensive Research on AI-in-Asia

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Source:MIT Technology Review

” Asia’s AI agenda” is a research program sponsored by ADP, IMDA, Genesys, Splunk, and the Asia School of Business. It is designed to examine the development of AI in the Asia-Pacific. This is the fourth report titled “The ethics of AI” from the series “Asia’s AI agenda”.

Following are the some important points which are mentioned in this report concerning the future of AI-

  • The Asian business leaders surveyed for this report have great optimism about AI’s positive effect on their businesses, societies, and individual well-being.
  • AI will be a major growth driver for Asia in the coming decade.
  • Weaponization and malicious use of AI are also ethical concerns in Asia as applications are increasingly commoditized and industrialized. The Asian business leaders surveyed for this report have great optimism about AI’s positive effect on their businesses, societies, and individual well-being.
  • 45% survey respondents believe Asia will lead the world in the development of ethics and governance than any other region, and only a quarter see North America as the ethics frontrunner.
  • 55% think AI should be government-regulated.
  • 42% believe that the rise of AI in Asia will destroy more jobs than it will create.

However, other survey responses reveal that Asian business leaders are not overly concerned about job loss in their own organizations, and they believe that AI will benefit their employees. The majority (59%) of respondents believe their employees’ job roles have been enhanced since the introduction of AI.

For complete reading of the report, click this – MIT Technology Review

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AI powered Tokyo’s 2020 Olympics


Intel and Alibaba to Provide AI at Olympic Games Tokyo 2020

Intel and Alibaba have partnered to develop an AI-powered technology called 3D Athlete Tracking for the 2020 Olympics, which are to be held in Japan, with the intention to enhance athlete training and audience experience.

According to Navin Shenoy, Intel EVP and general manager of the Data Center Group, the 3D Athlete Tracking is a novel technology concept and is optimized to run on Alibaba’s Cloud. The tool integrates computer vision and AI deep learning algorithms to provide coaches and trainers with “intricate real-time biomechanical data” via various video cameras to detect motion and activity.

Here is the complete report from Intel’s newsroom… https://newsroom.intel.com/news/intel-alibaba-team-ai-powered-3d-athlete-tracking-technology-olympic-games-tokyo-2020/#gs.93z3fe

Russia’s New Internet bill ‘Runet’


Russia has formally adopted a law that gives its government more control over its domestic internet.

The purpose of the law is to maintain the stability of the Russian internet and the services running over it, in case foreign aggressors try to cut it off the global whole.

In a couple of years, Russia will have the ability to safely disconnect its internet from the World Wide Web or to initiate an internet blackout in a region if it is rocked by unrest or opposition.
But it is now set to come into effect in November, with telecoms operators obliged to abide by its terms from the start of 2021.

To that end, Russia will need to build its own Domain Name System (DNS), and internet service providers will need to install special equipment.

According to media reports, the majority of Russians oppose the ‘Sovereign Internet Bill’.

For more detailed info, please visit : https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/05/01/putin-signs-internet-isolation-bill-into-law-a65461

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/05/putin-signs-bill-tightening-government-grip-on-the-russian-internet/

The much awaited ‘reality’ is released by scientists…’Black Hole’

a historic day in science
first close-up image of black hole

  • The image of a dark core with a flame-orange halo of gas and plasma shows a supermassive black hole 50 million light years away…
  • YES…It happened. Scientists using the Event Horizon Telescope (not through computer-generated imagery) have captured the first real image of a black hole. The snapshot of the supermassive black hole in the Messier 87 galaxy (about 55 million light years away) shows the “shadow” created as the event horizon bends and sucks in light. It also confirms that the black hole is truly huge, with a mass 6.5 billion times that of the Sun.
  • Taking this picture was tricky — it required worldwide collaboration that wasn’t possible until recently.
  • The image required connecting eight existing high-altitude telescopes, including ones Chile and Antarctica, to reach an angular resolution high enough to capture such a relatively compact object (the event horizon is “just” 24.9 billion miles across).
  • This technique, also involved synchronizing atomic clocks and even taking advantage of the rotation of the Earth. Supercomputers at the Max Planck Institute and MIT’s Haystack Observatory had to combine “petabytes” of raw data from the telescopes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZsR9zPYTDg

For more amazing and detailed info, please visit – https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/news/black-hole-image-makes-history/

Apple TV+ is the all-new streaming service

Apple announced its own TV and movie streaming service , enlisting such superstars as Oprah Winfrey, Jennifer Aniston and Steven Spielberg.

Apple didn’t disclose the price or the launch date except to say that Apple TV Plus will be available this fall. It will feature Apple’s original shows and movies.

Among the upcoming programs on the new Apple service will be Winfrey-created documentaries; a show about TV morning talk shows, starring Aniston, Reese Witherspoon and Steve Carell; and a sci-fi show called “Amazing Stories” from Spielberg.

Here is the official one – https://www.apple.com/in/tv/

An external advisory council to help advance the responsible development of AI

Alphabet’s Google said it was launching a global advisory council to consider ethical issues around artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies and to ‘ to guide the responsible development and use of AI in our research and products. ‘

To complement the internal governance structure and processes that will help to implement the principles, an Advanced Technology External Advisory Council (ATEAC) is established.

The eight-member Advanced Technology External Advisory Council includes Joanna Bryson, an associate professor in computing at the University of Bath; William J. Burns, a former US deputy secretary of state, and Dyan Gibbens, chief executive of Houston-based drone startup Trumbull, according to a Google blog post.

Fathers of AI honoured with Nobel Prize of computing

  • Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun have been honoured with Turing award, which carries a $1 million prize.
  • Their decades of hardwork and their persistence paid off when the Association for Computing Machinery awarded them the ACM AM Turing Award, an honour that over the years has become famous as the “Nobel Prize of computing”, for conceptual and engineering breakthroughs in the field of deep neural networks.
  •  Geoffrey Hinton works at Google as a vice-president and senior fellow.
  • Mr. LeCun is chief AI scientist at Facebook.
  • Mr. Bengio remains immersed in academia as a University of Montreal professor in addition to serving as scientific director at the Artificial Intelligence Institute in Quebec .

“For a long time, people thought what the three of us were doing was nonsense,” Mr. Hinton said in an interview with. “They thought we were very misguided and what we were doing was a very surprising thing for apparently intelligent people to waste their time on. My message to young researchers is, don’t be put off if everyone tells you what are doing is silly.”

Turing Awardees

For more info. please visit-

https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/artificial-intelligence-pioneers-win-tech-nobel/article26653986.ece

Tesla unveils its Model Y electric SUV

The company’s fifth car will be available in four configurations, and will seat seven passengers with an optional third row. The base variant comes in at $39,000, with a range of 370 kilometers (230 miles) on a single charge; the top-end Performance model will be able to cover 450 kilometers (280 miles), hit a top speed of 240 kmph (150mph), and set you back by $60,000.


“It has the functionality of an SUV, but it will ride like a sports car,” Musk said. “So this thing will be really tight on corners.”

For more info please visit…

https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/14/tesla-model-y-unveil-suv/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29
https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/14/tesla-model-y-unveil-suv/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29

Astronomers discover 83 supermassive black holes as big as the Sun in the early universe

“It is remarkable that such massive dense objects were able to form so soon after the Big Bang,”

said Michael Strauss, a professor at Princeton University in the US.

Astronomers have discovered 83 quasars (a massive and extremely remote celestial object) powered by supermassive black holes 13 billion light-years away from the Earth, from a time when the universe was less than 10 per cent of its present age.

Supermassive black holes, found at the centres of galaxies, can be millions or even billions of times more massive than the Sun.

While they are prevalent today, it is unclear when they first formed, and how many existed in the distant early universe.

A supermassive black hole becomes visible when gas accretes onto it, causing it to shine as a “quasar”.

Please visit these links to get more info –

https://www.indiatoday.in/science/story/83-supermassive-black-holes-discovered-astronomers-early-universe-1477973-2019-03-14

https://www.telegraphindia.com/science/83-supermassive-black-holes-found-in-early-universe/cid/1686812

Some advise for beginners in programming

Well, I do not claim myself to be an expert in programming, but yes I do it in my leisure time and am interested in it.

I like reading programming blogs a lot, mostly from https://medium.com/ and here I am going to share one of its blog, which even motivated me to a great extent and taught me some great lessons.

Before sharing that link, I would advice all the readers to use Sololearn app . This community is so much motivating, everything is practical in this app. Moreover, you could here challenge coders from across the globe. And it is much more than what i have described here. And this is my account there: https://www.sololearn.com/Profile/9806333

You may follow me there.

And here is that link of aforesaid blog, do visit

https://medium.com/chingu/tips-for-the-beginning-developer-from-a-beginner-developer-b2a5cf736a35

And download Sololearn, believe it will simulate you even more…

And comment your opinions below…