Contractors can get blindsided by something as simple as a definition. Dr. Lance Eliot points out that the federal definition of artificial intelligence (AI) varies dramatically, which can mess up contractors that assert for contractual purposes that they have or are using AI. ...
Contractors can get blindsided by something as simple as a definition. Dr. Lance Eliot points out that the federal definition of artificial intelligence (AI) varies dramatically, which can mess up contractors that assert for contractual purposes that they have or are using AI. ...
(g) ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DEFINED. In this section, the term ‘‘artificial intelligence’’ includes the following: 1) Any artificial system that performs tasks under varying and unpredictable circumstances without significant human oversight, or that can learn from experience and improve performance when exposed to data sets. 2) An artificial system developed in computer software, physical hardware, or other context that solves tasks requiring human-like perception, cognition, planning, learning, communication, or physical action. 3) An artificial system designed to think or act like a human, including cognitive architectures and neural networks. 4) A set of techniques, including machine learning, that is designed to approximate a cognitive task. 5) An artificial system designed to act rationally, including an intelligent software agent or embodied robot that achieves goals using perception, planning, reasoning, learning, communicating, decision making, and acting.
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The definition has all kinds of vagaries and confounding elements. ...
For the first time, Creative Acts introduced the Virtual Reality Reentry Program at California State Prison, Corcoran.
Incarcerated participants were able to have experiences that would otherwise be impossible.
To help prepare them for reentry into the community, the program allows participants to engage in acts that others take for granted like pumping gas and purchasing groceries. ...
Blockchain, the technology underpinning bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, for years has been viewed by some companies as a way to drive industry-transforming projects, among them the tracking of assets through complex supply chains.
So far, that hasn’t happened.
The latest effort to run aground was that of A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S and International Business Machines Corp., which hoped to follow shipments via the blockchain. Last month, Maersk said the project would be discontinued. Another big effort, Walmart Inc.’s attempt to track groceries on the blockchain, continues, but slowly. ...
Others have tried with mixed results.
In 2018, Walmart partnered with IBM to start tracking its produce items through blockchain. The effort began with leafy greens, and in the four years since has added just one more item: green bell peppers.
Walmart said it took time to get buy-in from suppliers who found the onboarding process daunting. Many didn’t have digital record-keeping systems and had to make large upfront investments before they could start using blockchain, Walmart said. ...
PhilNote: China and US are attacking deep fakes from opposite directions; China will ONLY allow synthetic audio and visual creations that utilize an official, detectable watermark and prosecute sources that don't comply. US wants to use watermark detection to stop unauthorized use of audio and likenesses for hate speech, porn, and fake quotes and attributions.
'Deep synthesis service providers' otherwise free to create AI-generated humans in line with socialist values
China's Cyberspace Administration has issued guidelines on how to do deepfakes the right way. ...
Deepfakes use artificial intelligence to create realistic depictions – usually videos – of humans saying and/or doing things they didn't say and/or do. They're controversial outside China for their potential to mislead audiences and create trouble for the people depicted.
Beijing clearly also has worries about the technique as the Cyberspace Administration (CAC) has issued regulations that prohibit their creation without the subject's permission, or to depict or utter anything that could be considered as counter to the national interest. Anything counter to socialist values falls under that description, as does any form of "Illegal and harmful information" or using AI-generated humans in an attempt to deceive or slander.
But the rules also suggest China expects synthetic humans will be widely used. For instance, they allow use of deepfakes in applications such as chatbots. In such scenarios, deepfakes must be flagged as digital creations.
The document also envisages that deepfakes will be used by online publishers, which must take into account China's myriad other rules about acceptable online content. ...
Blippar, the leading technology and content platform specializing in augmented reality (AR), announced the expansion of Blippbuilder, its no-code AR creation platform, which now enables creators to build augmented reality experiences for AR headsets, starting with Magic Leap 2 and beta testing Meta Quest Pro.
Forging new frontiers, Blippar’s 200,000+ creators are able to create interactive AR experiences that can now also be experienced on mixed-reality headwear devices. Blippar has initially chosen to enable consumption across Magic Leap and Meta headsets to ensure that the broadest possible spectrum of consumers can engage with experiences developed using its expansive AR creation platform - from enterprise customers and professionals, to students, gamers and those with AR headsets for daily use. ...
... on Monday, December 5th, its AI Research Group, a team of fifteen of the world’s leading Computational Neuroscientists and AI Ph.D.’s, in association with Universities across Canada, UK, Germany, Australia, The Netherlands, and the USA, published a landmark research “white” paper describing their novel approach to the design and development of the next generation of AI known as Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) intelligent agents with human-level intelligence that can learn, adapt and act in the world. The paper, entitled “Designing Ecosystems of Intelligence from First Principles,” presents a vision and roadmap for AI based on a field of research called Active Inference. KOSM, the network operating system from VERSES, uses the Active Inference framework as the foundation for its AI decision-making and planning capabilities. ...
... Overall, participants agreed that the better the AR authoring tool, the less L&D professionals should worry about AR technical skills. More attention should be focused on design, such as whether to develop content for learning or supporting job performance. ...
While most use cases about mobile AR are in training, mobile AR has great potential in performance support. L&D professionals need to continue developing skills and knowledge to adopt the new technology well. Meanwhile, more studies are needed to help them adopt mobile AR efficiently and effectively.
...What Beamery has developed is a much more nuanced approach that makes use of graph data models and AI to create contextual understanding. For example, he noted that it’s important to understand what a company does and what job titles mean inside of a specific company.
By having a contextual understanding, S. Saidov said that it’s also possible to better identify potential candidates that might otherwise not be found.
“We identify the types of people that are going to be easily trained or are trainable, even if that skill set doesn’t exist today,” he said. ...
“We never say ‘hire this person,’” S. Saidov said. “Everything that we do is about providing explainability. For example, here are career paths you could have or, even if you’re a recruiter, showing parameters that you could consider to help you evaluate people.”
On December 2, senior media executives gathered on Zoom to answer questions from USC students about industry trends, company strategies and career direction. The students had submitted winning pitches in the ETC@USC Future of Themed Experiences Challenge and their reward was time with the media executives. The questions ranged from “Do you need to learn to code to break into entertainment technology?” to “What are some visionary directions you see your company investing in over the next 4-5 years?” Video of the discussions, along with the lists of questions, students, and executives, is available online.
