Are artificial intelligence (AI) and superintelligent machines the best or worst thing that could ever happen to humankind? This has been a question in existence since the 1940s when computer scientist Alan Turing wondered and began to believe that there would be a time when machines could have an unlimited impact on humanity through a process that mimicked evolution.

Is Artificial Intelligence (AI) A Threat To Humans?

When Oxford University Professor Nick Bostroms New York Times best-seller, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies was first published in 2014, it struck a nerve at the heart of this debate with its focus on all the things that could go wrong. However, in my recent conversation with Bostrom, he also acknowledged theres an enormous upside to artificial intelligence technology.

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Since the writing of Bostrom's book in 2014, progress has been very rapid in artificial intelligence and machine and deep learning. Artificial intelligence is in the public discourse, and most governments have some sort of strategy or road map to address AI. In his book, he talked about AI being a little bit like children playing with a bomb that could go off at any time.

Bostrom explained, "There's a mismatch between our level of maturity in terms of our wisdom, our ability to cooperate as a species on the one hand and on the other hand our instrumental ability to use technology to make big changes in the world. It seems like we've grown stronger faster than we've grown wiser."

There are all kinds of exciting AI tools and applications that are beginning to affect the economy in many ways. These shouldnt be overshadowed by the overhype on the hypothetical future point where you get AIs with the same general learning and planning abilities that humans have as well as superintelligent machines.These are two different contexts that require attention.

Today, the more imminent threat isn't from a superintelligence, but the usefulyet potentially dangerousapplications AI is used for presently.

How is AI dangerous?

If we focus on whats possible today with AI, here are some of the potential negative impacts of artificial intelligence that we should consider and plan for:

Change the jobs humans do/job automation: AI will change the workplace and the jobs that humans do. Some jobs will be lost to AI technology, so humans will need to embrace the change and find new activities that will provide them the social and mental benefits their job provided.

Political, legal, and social ramifications: As Bostrom advises, rather than avoid pursuing AI innovation, "Our focus should be on putting ourselves in the best possible position so that when all the pieces fall into place, we've done our homework. We've developed scalable AI control methods, we've thought hard about the ethics and the governments, etc. And then proceed further and then hopefully have an extremely good outcome from that." If our governments and business institutions don't spend time now formulating rules, regulations, and responsibilities, there could be significant negative ramifications as AI continues to mature.

AI-enabled terrorism: Artificial intelligence will change the way conflicts are fought from autonomous drones, robotic swarms, and remote and nanorobot attacks. In addition to being concerned with a nuclear arms race, we'll need to monitor the global autonomous weapons race.

Social manipulation and AI bias: So far, AI is still at risk for being biased by the humans that build it. If there is bias in the data sets the AI is trained from, that bias will affect AI action. In the wrong hands, AI can be used, as it was in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, for social manipulation and to amplify misinformation.

AI surveillance: AIs face recognition capabilities give us conveniences such as being able to unlock phones and gain access to a building without keys, but it also launched what many civil liberties groups believe is alarming surveillance of the public. In China and other countries, the police and government are invading public privacy by using face recognition technology. Bostrom explains that AI's ability to monitor the global information systems from surveillance data, cameras, and mining social network communication has great potential for good and for bad.

Deepfakes: AI technology makes it very easy to create "fake" videos of real people. These can be used without an individual's permission to spread fake news, create porn in a person's likeness who actually isn't acting in it, and more to not only damage an individual's reputation but livelihood. The technology is getting so good the possibility for people to be duped by it is high.

As Nick Bostrom explained, The biggest threat is the longer-term problem introducing something radical thats super intelligent and failing to align it with human values and intentions. This is a big technical problem. Wed succeed at solving the capability problem before we succeed at solving the safety and alignment problem.

Today, Nick describes himself as a frightful optimist that is very excited about what AI can do if we get it right. He said, The near-term effects are just overwhelmingly positive. The longer-term effect is more of an open question and is very hard to predict. If we do our homework and the more we get our act together as a world and a species in whatever time we have available, the better we are prepared for this, the better the odds for a favorable outcome. In that case, it could be extremely favorable.

For more on AI and other technology trends, see Bernard Marrs new book Tech Trends in Practice: The 25 Technologies That Are Driving The 4Th Industrial Revolution, which is available to pre-order now.

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We know machines and artificial intelligence (AI) can be many things, but can they ever really be creative? When I interviewed Professor Marcus du Sautoy, the author of The Creativity Code, he shared that the role of AI is a kind of catalyst to push our human creativity. Its the machine and human collaboration that produces exciting resultsnovel approaches and combinations that likely wouldnt develop if either were working alone.

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Instead of thinking about AI as replacing human creativity, it's beneficial to examine ways that AI can be used as a tool to augment human creativity. Here are several examples of how AI boosts the creativity of humans in art, music, dance, design, recipe building, and publishing.

Art

In the world of visual art, AI is making an impact in many ways. It can alter existing art such as the case when it made the Mona Lisa a living portrait a la Harry Potter, create likenesses that appear to be real humans that can be found on the website ThisPersonDoesNotExist.com and even create original works of art.

When Christies auctioned off a piece of AI artwork titled the Portrait of Edmond de Belamy for $432,500, it became the first auction house to do so. The AI algorithm, a generative adversarial network (GAN) developed by a Paris-based collective, that created the art, was fed a data set of 15,000 portraits covering six centuries to inform its creativity.

Another development that blurs the boundaries of what it means to be an artist is Ai-Da, the worlds first robot artist, who recently held her first solo exhibition. She is equipped with facial recognition technology and a robotic arm system thats powered by artificial intelligence.

More eccentric art is also a capability of artificial intelligence. Algorithms can read recipes and create images of what the final dish will look like. Dreamscope by Google uses traditional images of people, places and things and runs them through a series of filters. The output is truly original, albeit sometimes the stuff of nightmares.

Music

If AI can enhance creativity in visual art, can it do the same for musicians? David Cope has spent the last 30 years working on Experiments in Musical Intelligence or EMI. Cope is a traditional musician and composer but turned to computers to help get past composers block back in 1982. Since that time, his algorithms have produced numerous original compositions in a variety of genres as well as created Emily Howell, an AI that can compose music based on her own style rather than just replicate the styles of yesterdays composers.

In many cases, AI is a new collaborator for todays popular musicians. Sony's Flow Machine and IBM's Watson are just two of the tools music producers, YouTubers, and other artists are relying on to churn out today's hits. Alex Da Kid, a Grammy-nominated producer, used IBMs Watson to inform his creative process. The AI analyzed the "emotional temperature" of the time by scraping conversations, newspapers, and headlines over a five-year period. Then Alex used the analytics to determine the theme for his next single.

Another tool that embraces human and machine collaboration, AIVA bills itself as a creative assistant for creative people and uses AI and deep learning algorithms to help compose music.

In addition to composing music, artificial intelligence is transforming the music industry in a variety of ways from distribution to audio mastering and even creating virtual pop stars. An auxuman singer called Yona, developed by Iranian electronica composer Ash Koosha, creates and performs music such as the song Oblivious through AI algorithms.

Dance and Choreography

A powerful way dance choreographers have been able to break out of their regular patterns is to use artificial intelligence as a collaborator. Wayne McGregor, the award-winning British choreographer and director, is known for using technology in his work and is particularly fascinated by how AI could enhance what is done with the choreography in a project with Google Arts & Culture Lab. Hundreds of hours of video footage of dancers representing individual styles were fed into the algorithm. The AI then went to work and "learned how to dance. The goal is not to replace the choreographer but to efficiently iterate and develop different choreography options.

AI Augmented Design

Another creative endeavor AI is proving to be adept at is commercial design. In a collaboration between French designer Philippe Starck, Kartell, and Autodesk, a 3D software company, the first chair designed using artificial intelligence and put into production was presented at Milan Design Week. The Chair Project is another collaboration that explores co-creativity between people and machines.

Recipes

The creativity of AI is also transforming the kitchen not only by altering longstanding recipes but also creating entirely new food combinations in collaborations with some of the biggest names in the food industry. Our favorite libations might also get an AI makeover. You can now pre-order AI-developed whiskey. Brewmasters decisions are also being informed by artificial intelligence. MITs Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) is making use of all those photos of the food that we post on social media. By using computer vision, these food photos are being analyzed to better understand peoples eating habits as well as to suggest recipes with the food that is pictured.

Write Novels and Articles

Even though the amount of written material to inform artificial intelligence algorithms is voluminous, writing has been a challenging skill for AI to acquire. Although AI has been most successful in generating short-form formulaic content such as journalism "who, what, where, and when stories," its skills continue to grow. AI has now written a novel, and although neural networks created what many might find a weird read, it was still able to do it. And, with the announcement a Japanese AI programs short-form novel almost won a national literary prize, its easy to see how it wont be long before AI can compete with humans to write compelling pieces of content. Kopan Page published Superhuman Innovation, a book not only about artificial intelligence but was co-written by AI. PoemPortraits is another example of AI and human collaboration where you can provide the algorithm with a single word that it will use to generate a short poem.

As the world of AI and human creativity continue to expand, its time to stop worrying about if AI can be creative, but how the human and machine world can intersect for creative collaborations that have never been dreamt of before.

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Healthcare artificial intelligence market is estimated to be US$ 3,120 Mn in 2018 and is anticipated to grow at a CAGR of 25.9% over the forecast period owing to digitalization of medical device and patient registries

PUNE, India, March 5, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --In terms of revenue, the global healthcare artificial intelligence market is estimated to be US$ 3,120 Mn in 2018 and is anticipated to reach US$ 24,700 Mn by 2027 growing at a CAGR of 25.9% over the forecast period.

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The increasing use of electronic patient registry and medical device registries is leading to generation of potential datasets for application of AI technologies and deriving predictive insights. Electronic patient registry or electronic health record (EHR) are used by hospitals and clinics to collect observational medical data of their patients. This data is collected and analyzed by a web-based software and can be made available to the medical community, government agencies and research organizations as per their requirement. It allows professionals in healthcare and other industries to analyze available treatments and how patients with various characteristics and medical history respond to these treatments. In a similar way, medical device registry is used to collect, store and retrieve data to medical devices and equipment used for healthcare delivery. The trend of electronically storing patient and device data in healthcare sector has been witnessing growth in past few years due to the digital revolution.

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Major players such as McKesson Corporation, IBM and others have introduced their EHR products. The rising adoption of electronic patient and medical device registry has led to generation of huge datasets which can be optimally utilized for analytical predictive purposes. AI and advanced analytics enable healthcare providers to extract patient-specific information from connected medical devices instead of having to analyze large, time-consuming and complicated datasets, thus propelling the growth of global healthcare artificial intelligence market. Such specific patient information can aid them to offer personalized medicines and diagnostics. For instance, Qualetics Data Machines Inc. offers an intelligence platform for healthcare industry which provides incisive insights using artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing and predictive analysis coupled with data obtained from patient registries.

In other such instance, Saykara, Inc. has developed an AI based virtual assistant for physicians utilizing speech recognition technology, which listens in the background during attending any patient and automatically generates notes which is later updated in the EHR system. These application of AI technologies in combination with EHR systems are enhancing healthcare delivery and user experience thus enhancing the growth of global healthcare artificial intelligence market. Going forward deployment of patient and medical device registries on cloud platform further deepens the market penetration of these electronic registries thus creating extensive potential application for AI technologies. For instance, SyTrue in partnership with Microsoft has introduced Azure, cloud platform of Microsoft, based solution to manage health records through natural language processing technology. Thus, growing digitalization of patient and medical device registries are expected to boost the growth of global healthcare artificial intelligence market globally.

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Last week I went to the Imperial Theater to see Aint Too Proud, a biography in song and dance of the ultimate Motown supergroup, The Temptations. It was one of the many Broadway shows that are often overlooked in favor of heavy hitters like Cats or Wicked, but is still entertaining nonetheless.

The performance reminded me of why people go to Broadway in the first place. The music, the dancing, the acting, and the story, surprisingly, are all secondary.

The real reason we go to the theater is to experience the energy and joy of the performers who are right in front of us, operating on that tightrope where there are no second chances, no explanations or forgiveness for forgetting ones lines or moves, and instead the excitement and thrill of watching individuals living their dreams and demonstrating the greatness of the human spirit, just for us, right before our very eyes.

Theres nothing necessarily easy about getting to Broadway. First, youve got to get tickets, and two tickets to any Broadway show costs about the same as a year of Netflix or Disney Plus. Next, youve got to make your way to Midtown Manhattan, an increasingly difficult chore, since Mayor de Blasio has all but outlawed private vehicles and, somehow, made traffic even worse than ever.

Then theres the experience of being in the theater at Broadway shows, which is not how most people consume their entertainment these days. When youre at home, nobody glares at you if you leave your phone on and it beeps, buzzes, or trills. You can get up and go to the bathroom anytime, not just before or after the show, in a line of fifty strangers equally desperate to pee.

At home, on the couch, you dont have to wrestle a stranger for control of an armrest. You can sprawl as much as you like, with no one to lean on you, breathe on you, or block your view.

And yet.

When we think about the term virtual, as in virtual reality, we tend to forget that the real meaning of virtue comes from the Latin word for truth. Virtual reality is, in fact, a bit of a dirty lie. Its neither virtual (truthful) nor is it real. The performers arent sharing the same space with you.

They had countless takes in order to get their songs, dances, or emoting exactly the way they want it. If a note, or a dance step, or an entrance, or anything gets flubbed, no problem.

Take two.

Producers on Broadway shows are a smart lot. They understand that their mission in life is to give the people what they want, and above all, thats a rollicking good time. Even if you cannot pee on-demand or check your phone without experiencing the opprobrium of those around you. And if you dont like what youre watching, theres nothing else on.

Youre stuckliterally in the middle of the row and figuratively, as theres no other channel, website, or video to which you can turn. So its easy to make the case for what really shouldnt be called virtual reality and should actually be referred to as a bunch of stuff caught on video.

That said, Im hoping youll do what I did: Make your way into trafficky, crowded Midtown, pay too much for dinner, pay just enough to get good seats, and wedge yourself in between a couple of strangers and arm wrestle with them for dominance on the seat dividers, and enjoy the show.

As for The Temptations itself, if youre going to see one Broadway show, as the expression goes, you really ought to get out more often. But if you are going to see one, make it this one.

The perfection of the performance, the awesome quality of the music, the thrill of the dancing, mic tosses, and splitsyou cant get that on YouTube. Okay, yeah, you can, but you wont breathe the same air as the performers.

And if there are any performers with whom youshould share air and space, its the men and women of the cast and band of Aint Too Proud.

You can always pick up your device again afterthe show.

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A computer scientist at the University of Hawaii at Hilo is the recipient of a more than half-a million-dollar grant from the National Science Foundation aimed at developing new techniques in artificial intelligence (AI). Assistant Professor Travis Mandel, an AI expert, will use the prestigious $549,790 award to enhance research based on human-in-the-loop AI. The techniques are based on how AI and machine learning systems collaborate with humans to solve real-world problems too challenging for either to address alone.

The goal of this project is to create new algorithms and interaction paradigms that enable humans and artificial intelligence systems to work together, leveraging each others strengths to collect better data, Mandel said.

The National Science Foundation award is expected to have a major impact on research and education on Hawaii Island. The hope is to drive increased interest in science and technology at UH Hilo and showcase the universitys emerging data science program.

Im particularly excited about the opportunities this grant will provide for our talented and hardworking undergraduate students to get involved in cutting-edge computer science and data science research, Mandel said. The project also includes components that integrate research and education, such as building new data science curriculum and developing interactive video game exhibits at Imiloa Astronomy Center and the Hawaii Science and Technology Museum.

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By Sergey Karayev

Artificial Intelligence is coming for education.

But dont panic.

Its not going to replace college faculty or teaching as we know it. Its not a slippery slope. Instead, AI is going to give faculty superpowers, extending their reach and expanding their time.

A good teacher is a role model, a sage, able to become what the student needs. Teaching is too personal, too human, to be turned over to AI.

Thats not just my opinion. Three years ago, McKinsey, the global consulting firm, issued a report on how and where AI and automation was most likely to replace jobs and job functions. They listed Educational Services as the sector least likely to undergo that type of technology-dependent displacement saying, the essence of teaching is deep expertise and complex interactions with other people.

Consider also Dr. David Weiss, a psychology professor at the University of Minnesota. Weiss was probably the first person in the world to use computers to give and grade assessments, work he was doing as early as 1969. As far back as the 1970s people said we could have computers deliver instruction, we wont need teachers anymore. And Im hearing that again now because so much is on computer, he said recently. But thats never been realistic. There are things computers can do well and things they cant, he said.

Thats all true and unlikely to change. Teachers teach. They are good at it. No one wants to change that.

So, the dawn of AI in teaching does not mean were on a path to robot instructors. Computers and algorithms are highly unlikely to come between faculty and students anytime in our foreseeable future.

Where AI can help today is outside the classroom, making many non-instructional responsibilities of teaching easier and faster.

As an example, the area Im working on is AI-assisted grading. When fully tested and deployed, it will be able to do things such as group student answers by their content, and batch feedback to all essentially similar responses in the blink of an eye. So instead of a teacher writing forgot to mention the Krebs cycle 50 times, they can identify the error once and write their feedback once and the AI in the tool will propagate it to other responses with the same error.

AI assessment tools can also help faculty spot sticky subject areas for subsets of students and even make student-by-student recommendations for areas of extra attention. It can spot when an unusually high percentage of students struggled with a particular question, flagging that either the specific question or the whole topic needs teacher review.

Make no mistake. This wont replace gradingteachers will still decide whats correct and what isnt. Teachers will still approve the results. They just wont need to spend as long doing it, and they will be more accurate to boot.

Used correctly, it could turn the rote process of grading into a faster, less repetitive exercise in much the same way the Scantron or optical mark recognition made scoring multiple-choice assessments faster. Neither innovation replaced teaching, they made being a teacher easier.

Think of it as the difference between using Microsoft Word or a typewriter. Computer-based typing tools such as spellcheckers and cut-and-paste did not replace writing or displace writers, they made writers better, faster, more powerful.

My point is not that automated grading tools and other AI advancements will be mundane improvements. I am confident they will be tremendously important advancements in education. What Im saying is that the AI that is coming to education will be in the support systems, freeing faculty to do more of what they love, the things computers cant do: mentor students, make intellectual connections, and inspire curious minds. Giving teachers significantly more time and energy to do those things has the potential to be a game-changer for learning.

AI can do that, and not just in grading but in

other areas too, streamlining the tasks and chores of faculty that exist largely outside and apart from person-to-person, teacher-to-student engagement. The point of AI is to make those moments more frequent and more powerfulto be a teaching superpower.

Sergey Karayev has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley, is co-founder of Gradescope, and head of AI for STEM at Turnitin. He is also a co-organizer of Full Stack Deep Learning Bootcamp, which delves into best practices of all components of deep learning.

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BOSTON, March 05, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ripple Effect Communications, full-service digital marketing, public relations, and social media agency, announces its growing portfolio of innovative software and technology clients that are successfully deploying artificial intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) in IoT as a competitive advantage in the respective industries they serve. Ripple Effect has acquired several new clients spanning technology, manufacturing, and healthcare.

The uptick comes from the influx of intelligent data science solutions for healthcare/medical/clinical applications as well as eCommerce/banking/fintech and industrial/ manufacturing/robotics. These evolving solutions are helping companies leverage their investments in AI and ML by unifying statistics with data analysis to bring context and actionable information to the data collected.

Were proud to support these transformational technology companies that are embracing AI, IoT, big data, and analytics and which rely on our strategic understanding of their industries, their customers needs and how to best convey their strategic messaging, said Valerie Harding, Founder and CEO of Ripple Effect Communications. These companies are breaking new ground in the most critical technology areas such as data science, cybersecurity, data management. They are steadfast in deploying the right mix of digital, thought leadership, and influencer engagement to drive the most meaningful, compelling and results-driven campaigns to bring awareness to their constituents, she added.

The manufacturing sector was among the early adopters of AI and ML but today millions of consumers and businesses interact with AI directly or indirectly via virtual assistants, facial recognition technology, mapping applications, wearables and a host of other software. The use of AI in banking and finance is growing rapidly as well as applications in the healthcare industry that are improving patient diagnostics and outcomes as well as clinical trial successes. That said, these are just the early beginnings and the profit potential for companies in all areas is hard to overstate.

Ripple Effect Communications is already deeply entrenched with supporting clients within the enterprise technology landscape: ERP, mobile, PLM, security, big data, and AI. Digital marketing, thought leadership positioning, increased social engagement, public relations, and digital content marketing, are essential in devising a strategic communications roadmap with scheduled milestones to reach customers, prospects and influencers, is the very best approach to help businesses thrive in our increasing complex world, Harding continued.

About Ripple Effect Communications

Ripple Effect Communications, located in Boston, New York, and California, is an integrated digital marketing, PR and social media communications agency that delivers an out-of-the-box approach to benefit clients by using an innovative infrastructure, executive-only talent pool with client-side experience, and unique pricing model that results in lean, yet target-exceeding performance. Ripple Effect's team manages integrated digital marketing and specialized PR campaigns for enterprise-wide software and technology companies that serve manufacturing, healthcare, medical devices, biotech, fintech, and food & beverage. Our senior team of PR, digital marketing professionals, and content marketers provide strategic direction, counsel and implementation across the entire range of client requirements. The Ripple Effect team brings multi-lingual capabilities as well as global connections through its Eurocom Worldwide PR partnership. http://www.rippleeffectpr.com

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Imad Hashem has been the secretary-general at the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and Industry (JCCI) since October 2019.

He received his bachelors degree in chemical engineering in 1995 from King Abdul Aziz University, Jeddah, and enrolled in the international executive program at the Institut Europen dAdministration des Affaires in France in 2010.

Hashem started his career in 1996 as an assistant brand manager at Savola Group, before moving in 1998 to Al-Haramain Industrial Group to serve as head of sales and marketing.

In 1999 he switched to Unilever until 2004, serving as a global project leader for the Lipton brands development, before moving to Fitaihi Holding Group in 2004 as a board member and commercial director.

He then moved to Emaar in King Abdullah Economic City (KAEC) in 2008 as an executive director, where he helmed many projects in communications and corporate affairs, real estate commercial affairs, and regulations affairs.

Hashem is also a board member of BRC Industrial (Saudia) Ltd. since 2014, and a mentor in the Qimam fellowship program since 2018.

Recently, JCCI signed a membership agreement with theSaudi Credit Bureau(SIMAH) to improve credit transactions for all its members, assess their financial solvency and develop a comprehensive report focusing on detailed and updated information.

The agreement was signed by Hashem and SIMAHCEO Khaled Al-Sharif.

Hashem said that joining SIMAHs membership was one of the chambers goals to determine its employees credit behavior in line with credit information and its regulations, increase transparency, and achieve better credit risk management in the future with SIMAH, which is a pioneer in the industry of credit information in Saudi Arabias business sector.

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) - a systems ability to collect and interpret data, to learn from data, and to use those learnings to achieve specific goals and complete tasks is at the forefront of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and is transforming every aspect of our global society. From healthcare to business, climate change to entertainment, defense and education, AI is changing our world and how we interact with it and each other.

While AI is simplifying and enhancing many aspects of our lives, the technology does not come without its issues. Many have concerns about privacy, data collection, and the impact on workers who could potentially be displaced by the technology. Regulation and oversight will be imperative to ensure that the technology isnt being abused, and it is important to consider the ethical implications of this emerging technology.

WPI alumni and researchers are at the center of it all.

Join us for this special event, hosted by Michael Wallent 91, corporate vice president of Enterprise Mobility Management Products for Microsoft Corporation, where a panel of WPI alumni and faculty will discuss the possibilities and ethical implications of AI and how we can harness its potential to be a force for good.

Date: Wednesday, March 25, 2020

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Michael lives in Seattle with his wife Anh, and kids Peri, John and Daniel. Even though hes been in Seattle for more than 20 years now, hes a die-hard Pats and Sox fan (root for where you are from!). Michael grew up mostly in Rhode Island, where his parents taught him about east coast perseverance and how to quickly clean lobsters. Hes often found in the mountains, spending time with skis and friends.

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Distinguished technology leader and AI expert Dr. Harry Shum becomes an angel investor in Asensys, a novel blockchain system designed to empower the decentralized web

SEATTLE, March 5, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ --Asensys, a next-generation, high-performance system that brings throughput and capacity to a new, scalable level, is pleased to announce former Executive Vice President of Artificial Intelligence & Research at Microsoft Dr. Harry Shum as an angel investor.

Dr. Shum is a famous AI researcher, who is an IEEE Fellow and an ACM Fellow for his contributions to computer vision and computer graphics. In 2017, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering of the United States and elected an International Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in the UK in 2018.

Dr. Harry Shum expressed, "Brendon and the Asensys team have developed a system to support the scaled throughput and capacity necessary to realize the promise of the decentralized Web, based on solid peer-reviewed research work on NSDI. I very much look forward to working hand-in-hand with the Asensys team to bring this solution to the forefront of internet technology innovation and ensure that our digital lives empowered by AI are secure and trustworthy."

Dr. Shum's expertise in AI will provide Asensys with an advantage in building a system that works for an increasingly AI-powered economy. AI algorithms are already deployed across finance, e-commerce, and media verticals, but the possibilities enabled by combining forces with blockchain are mostly untapped. Blockchain technology and AI together will drive the evolution of digital society with blockchain allowing for the effective application of AI without weakening data security or privacy.

Asensys Founder Dr. Brendon Wang boasts an impressive background himself, having published dozens of papers in such highly-reputed journals as ACM/TOG and USENIX/NSDI and been granted many US patents for his work. Dr. Wang formerly was a lead researcher at Microsoft Research where he focused on distributed computing systems for high-performance GPU computing and blockchain systems. He earned his PhD from the Institute of Computing Technology Chinese Academy of Sciences focusing on parallel computing and computer graphics.

"I'm honored to announce Harry Shum, as an angel investor in Asensys," said Asensys Founder Dr. Wang. "Involvement by such an acclaimed computer scientist is an unbelievable endorsement of the system we have created to address blockchain's scalability problem and provide a solid infrastructure for the decentralized Web that benefits everyone in the future."

By introducing the novel concept of Asynchronous Consensus Zones, Asensys is able to reduce redundancy of network tasks and process transactions much faster than legacy blockchains like Bitcoin and Ethereum. When Asensys performed a test including 1,200 virtual machines worldwide to support 48,000 nodes, the Asensys system delivered 1,000 times the throughput and 2,000 times the capacity of the Bitcoin and Ethereum networks, as reported in the NSDI research paper.

As the Asensys team continues to develop its novel infrastructure for the decentralized Web, the involvement of Dr. Shum as an eminent technology leader and the former Executive Vice President of Artificial Intelligence & Research at Microsoft represents an important milestone in the project's rollout and build-up of institutional credibility.

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About Asensys Asensys is a new-generation, high-performance system that brings throughput and capacity to a new, scalable level. Asensys aims to meet the needs of the modern digital economy with its novel blockchain infrastructure that will enable web users to realize the full potential of the internet by providing the foundation upon which decentralized applications can be built.

Headquartered in Seattle, WA with a global team, Asensys was founded by Dr. Brendon (JiaPing) Wang, whose research has been published in highly-reputed journals, such as ACM/TOG, and who also has been granted many US patents for his work on distributed computing and blockchain systems. At the prestigious NSDI'19 conference, Dr. Wang and the Asensys team demonstrated how to conquer the Blockchain Trilemmathe idea that decentralization or security must be sacrificed to achieve high performance.

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