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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

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.