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In the opening remarks, Jiunn-Shiow Lin, the director of the IDB, summarized the AI development and strategies in Taiwan. Since 2019, to assist local companies in obtaining more business opportunities, the government-funded project, "AI Application Service Development Environment Promotion Program", has been exploring merging issues and trends for global AI applications.

The co-founder of the Centre for AI & Climate, Mr. Peter Clutton-Brock, portrayed a general picture of using AI to tackle climate change, from emerging technologies to possible solutions. Most importantly, he provided six potential fields in which AI can be the solution to the climate crisis. Followed by Dr. Vu Thuy Linh, the research fellow of AI for Operations Management Research Center, carried out an AI sensor system to reduce carbon emissions in smart buildings.

In terms of the agricultural production, Dr. I-Chun Chang, the general secretary of the Taiwan Smart Aquaculture Glow Association, shared their experience in promoting and implementing intelligent and automated modern production in Taiwanese aquaculture; Alan Yu, the founder of ID Water Technology Co., provided an AI-aid solution in shrimp farming which can boost the economic value compared with the traditional shrimp management methods.

When it comes to solving climatic problems, AI has been proven to be an accurate, fast, and reliable method to mitigate the effects of climate change on the economy, industry, and society. This webinar provided a viewpoint and hands-on experience in how companies can use AI to solve climatic problems across the world and strengthen the resiliency of businesses and societies.

For more information about this event, please visit: https://www.ai-hub.online/.

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When a new coronavirus emerged from nature in 2019, it changed the world. But COVID-19 wont be the last disease to jump across from the shrinking wild. Just this weekend, it was announced that Australia, is no longer an onlooker, as Canada, the US and European countries scramble to contain monkeypox, a less dangerous relative of the feared smallpox virus we were able to eradicate at great cost.

As we push nature to the fringes, we make the world less safe for both humans and animals. Thats because environmental destruction forces animals carrying viruses closer to us, or us to them. And when an infectious disease like COVID does jump across, it can easily pose a global health threat given our deeply interconnected world, the ease of travel and our dense and growing cities.

We can no longer ignore that humans are part of the environment, not separate to it. Our health is inextricably linked to the health of animals and the environment. This will not be the last pandemic.

To be better prepared for the next spillover of viruses from animals, we must focus on the connections between human, environmental and animal health. This is known as the One Health approach, endorsed by the World Health Organization and many others.

We believe artificial intelligence can help us better understand this web of connection, and teach us how to keep life in balance.

Fully 60% of all infectious diseases affecting humans are zoonoses, meaning they came from animals. That includes the lethal Ebola virus, which came from primates, swine flu, from pigs, and the novel coronavirus, most likely from bats. Its also possible for humans to give animals our diseases, with recent research suggesting transmission of COVID-19 from humans to cats as well as deer.

Early warning of new zoonoses is vital, if we are to be able to tackle viral spillover before it becomes a pandemic. Pandemics such as swine flu (influenza H1N1) and COVID-19 have shown us the enormous potential of AI-enabled prediction and disease surveillance. In the case of monkeypox, the virus has already been circulating in African countries, but has now made the leap internationally.

Read more: On the trail of the origins of Covid-19

What does this look like? Think of collecting and analysing real-time data on infection rates. In fact, AI was used to first flag the novel coronavirus as it was becoming a pandemic, with work done by AI company Bluedot and HealthMap at Boston Childrens Hospital.

How? By tracking vast flows of data in ways humans simply cannot do. Healthmap, for instance, uses natural language processing and machine learning to analyse data from government reports, social media, news sites, and other online sources to track the global spread of outbreaks.

We can also use AI to mine social media data to understand where and when the next COVID surge will occur. Other researchers are using AI to examine the genomic sequences of viruses infecting animals in order to predict whether they could potentially jump from their animal hosts into humans.

As climate change alters the earths systems, it is also changing the ways disease spreads and their distributions. Here, too, AI can be put to use in new surveillance methods.

There are clear links between our destruction of the environment and the emergence of new infectious diseases and zoonotic spillovers. That means protecting and conserving nature also helps our health. By keeping ecosystems healthy and intact, we can prevent future disease outbreaks.

In conservation, too, AI can help. For instance, Wildbook uses computer-vision algorithms to detect individual animals in images, and track them over time. This allows researchers to produce better estimates of population sizes.

Trashing the environment by deforestation or illegal mining can also be spotted by AI, such as through the Trends.Earth project, which monitors satellite imagery and earth observation data for signs of unwelcome change.

Citizen scientists can pitch in as well by helping train machine learning algorithms to get better at identifying endangered plants and animals on platforms like Zooniverse.

Researchers are beginning to consider the ethics of AI research on animals. If AI is used carelessly, we could actually see worse outcomes for domestic and wild animal species, for example, animal tracking data can be prone to errors if not double-checked by humans on the ground, or even hacked by poachers.

AI is ethically blind. Unless we take steps to embed values into this software, we could end up with a machine which replicates existing biases. For instance, if there are existing inequalities in human access to water resources, these could easily be recreated in AI tools which would maintain this unfairness. Thats why organisations such as the AINowInstitute are focusing on bias and environmental justice in AI.

In 2019, the EU released ethical guidelines for trustworthy AI. The goal was to ensure AI tools are transparent and prioritise human agency and environmental health.

Read more: How to prevent mass extinction in the ocean using AI, robots and 3D printers

AI tools have real potential to help us tackle the next pandemic by keeping tabs on viruses and helping us keep nature intact. But for this to happen, we will have to widen AI outwards, away from the human-centredness of most AI tools, towards embracing the fullness of the environment we live in and share with other species.

We should do this while embedding our AI tools with principles of transparency, equity and protection of rights for all.

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MANCHESTER, United Kingdom, May 26, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Most businesses (90%) now use or plan to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) and even more (98%) have, or intend to, implement a data strategy. Yet new findings suggest that while the success of each is reliant on the other only one in three (35%) businesses with a data strategy say it includes provisions for Artificial Intelligence (AI). Decision Intelligence company Peak, released its State of AI, 2022 report today, highlighting that many businesses are making investments in both data and AI without connecting the two.

AI is inherently a data technology, and must function as part of an overarching data strategy, yet the majority of respondents in this survey are thinking about the two separately, said Richard Potter, co-founder and CEO of Peak.

The amount of data businesses produce is increasing exponentially and current predictions suggest businesses globally will create, capture, copy and consume 97 zettabytes of data this year alone.1 Implementing a data strategy is essential for defining how to collect, store and put that data to use.

Peaks State of AI report suggests that effectively leveraging their data is a priority for many businesses. One in two (52%) organizations with 100 or more employees now have a Chief Data Officer, and 86% have invested in a data lake or warehouse. Still, two-thirds (65%) of those with a data strategy have not made provisions for AI. Instead, data strategies are most likely to be focused on centralizing data within the business (55%), although establishing measurable goals for the use of data (54%) and managing security risks and compliance (53%) are similarly important goals.

The report also uncovered inconsistencies among leadership teams on data strategy. While 89% of CEOs said their company had a data strategy, only 63% of wider c-suite executives agreed.

This disconnect extends to perceptions of AI as well. Of the respondents in businesses that have or are working towards AI, 55% of CEOs thought the technology was being implemented throughout the business, compared to just 42% of other c-suite leaders.

Our research also reveals that within many companies there is a lack of clarity around the overall AI strategy, even at the top levels of management, said Richard Potter. If businesses want to successfully implement AI and, critically, drive value with this technology, we need open discussion within a business to ensure everyone is aligned to and understands the vision.

The report also provides a look at the regional differences in attitudes and progress being made in digital transformation, data maturity and AI adoption, with India more advanced than both the US and UK.

Methodology The report is based on a survey of 775 decision makers (senior managers and above) from the US, UK or India. Respondents were all from companies with 100 or more staff. Research was conducted for Peak by Opinium, in partnership with the Center for Economics and Business Research (Cebr). The survey ran from 19-25 April, 2022.

About Peak Jointly founded in Manchester and Jaipur in 2015 by Richard Potter, David Leitch and Atul Sharma, Peak is on a mission to change the way the world works.

A pioneer of the Decision Intelligence category, its platform enables customers to apply AI to the commercial decision making process. Peak features three products Dock, Factory, and Work that can be leveraged by businesses at every stage of their AI journey to build apps that deliver against specific business needs. With features to support both technical and line-of-business users, Peak makes these apps widely accessible to everyone within a business, simplifying and accelerating adoption of AI. It is used by leading brands including Nike, ASOS, PepsiCo, KFC and Sika.

The company has grown significantly over the last three years and, in August 2021, Peak announced a $75m Series C funding round led by SoftBanks Vision Fund II. The same year, it received a Best Companies 3-star accreditation, which recognises extraordinary levels of employee engagement and was ranked by The Sunday Times as one of the Best 100 Companies to Work For in 2020 and 2021.

1 Statista, 2022. Volume of data/information created, captured, copied, and consumed worldwide from 2010 to 2025 (in zettabytes). Statista.

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Omar Sultan Al Olama, the United Arab Emirates minister of artificial intelligence, yesterday told an audience at the World Economic forum in Davos that its his belief that people who commit serious crimes in the metaverse should be punished with real-world criminal consequences.

Per an article by CNBCs Sam Shead, the minister views this as a necessary measure to protect peoples mental health:

If I send you a text on WhatsApp, its text right? It might terrorize you but to a certain degree it will not create the memories that you will have PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) from it.

But if I come into the metaverse and its a realistic world that were talking about in the future and I actually murder you, and you see it it actually takes you to a certain extreme where you need to enforce aggressively across the world because everyone agrees that certain things are unacceptable.

Tell me you dont understand how post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) works without telling me you dont understand how PTSD works.

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Upfront: There is no medical threshold by which PTSD occurs. Clinical diagnosis involves observation and interviews with a medical professional.

Anecdotally speaking, PTSD isnt necessarily triggered in the manner which Al Olama indicated. I was diagnosed with PTSD while on active duty military service after learning about the death of someone Id mentored. Other peoples diagnosis have come after entirely different experiences.

Jennifer Kobelt, a survivor of the NXIVM cult, told investigators and documentarians that her PTSD was triggered after being subjected to a horrific experiment in which she was exposed to graphic violence from Hollywood cinema and a real-world snuff film.

Deeper: You cant murder an avatar. At least not in the legitimate legal sense. Its a stupid idea that doesnt deserve much attention, but lets just lay it bare real quick so we can move.

Lets say, 10 years from now, youre wandering around in Metas version of the metaverse. Youre probably wearing a VR headset, and maybe the techs advanced to the point where the visual and audio fidelity are nearly indistinguishable from reality.

All of the sudden, someone pushes the buttons on their control pad to cause their avatar to leap out of a digital bush and then they push the buttons on their control pad that cause them to stab your avatar.

Your avatar bleeds out and dies. You have to witness the knife going in! Oh! The horror!

But wait, lets rewind for a second. How did the knife get there? Who programmed the leaping out of the bush animation? Are there more kill moves? Whats the combo for a silent takedown?

Whoops. Im getting ahead of myself. I forgot, were not talking about a video game. Were talking about murder most foul, in the metaverse.

Im not sure what the UAEs minister of AI knows about the field that the rest of us dont, but in this particular version of reality, theres no basis for this fantasy.

Rock bottom: You may as well pass a law against murdering people in video games. And that means all of you people who play Call of Duty are screwed some of you have more kills than old age.

The point is that, no matter how traumatizing it might be to see yourself murdered in first person, its not like Zuckerbergs planning on making that a feature.

Maybe Al Olamas thinking the metaverse is going to be a splintered internet experience like web, where dark corners of the platform could be host to anything.

But, at least for now, the companies such as Meta, Nvidia, Microsoft, Google, and Epic that are investing billions of dollars into creating bespoke experiences probably arent going to put together a team of designers focused on adding PTSD-inducing gore to their production models.

Sure, a hacker could hack some violence onto a server or find an exploit that shows violence. And its possible some sort of underground mod scene could develop over time.

But seriously. The idea that somehow, youll be casually shopping in the Nike section of Metas billions-of-dollars and counting metaverse and suddenly a digital Jack the Ripper is going to appear in front of you in a rabid frenzy is just plain silly.

If you can murder people in the metaverse, itll be a feature that people log in specifically to experience. For the same reason so many of us play Dead By Daylight, Resident Evil, and Call of Duty, or watch R-rated horror movies, theres plenty of people whod enjoy a good old-fashioned fake-murdering in a VR world.

Quick take: Everything about the idea of criminalizing digitized violence in virtual reality is dumb. This kind of blathering rhetoric just demonstrates how far detached from reality some technologists can be. Nobodys worried about logging onto a VR version of Facebook and being murdered in their headset.

There are plenty of real ethical concerns that the minister of AI for the sixth richest country in the world could spend their time on.

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On May 12, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice issued guidance to caution employers about using artificial intelligence (AI) and software tools to make employment decisions. The guidance, titled The Americans with Disabilities Act and the Use of Software, Algorithms, and Artificial Intelligence to Assess Job Applicants and Employees, warns that using these tools without safeguards could result in an Americans with Disabilities Act violation.

The ADA requires that people with disabilities have full access to public and private services and facilities. It also bans employers from discriminating on the basis of disabilities, and requires that they provide reasonable accommodations to employees with disabilities to enable them to do a job.

Companies increasingly rely on software and AI to monitor employees locations, productivity, and performance, such as surveillance monitoring that tracks employees time on task. Employers may then use this information to make pay, disciplinary, and termination decisions. The guidance warns employers that doing so may result in discrimination against employees with disabilities.

The EEOC advises that employers should not be using algorithms, software or AI to make employment decisions without giving employees a chance to request reasonable accommodations. Heres why: Software and AI are designed to provide information based on preset specifications of the average or ideal worker. However, employees with disabilities may not work under typical conditions if they are utilizing an accommodation.

To use these tools without running afoul of the law, employers should train their HR personnel, managers and supervisors to recognize and respond to requests for accommodations from employees, even when the request is informal. This could include an employees requests to take a test in an alternative format, to be assessed in another way, or to be allowed to spend extra time off task due to a medical condition, for example. Employers should also ensure they use software that has been tested by users with disabilities. Other tips for staying in compliance include providing clear instructions to employees for requesting accommodations and avoiding pre-employment screening for traits that may reveal disabilities.

Employers would do well to remember that employees are humans, and sometimes decisions about humans need to be made by humans, not by computers. Metrics tracked by computers should be just one piece of the puzzle when evaluating employees performance.

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As the demand for AI-powered apps grows, startups developing dedicated chips to accelerate AI workloads on-premises are reaping the benefits. A recent ZDNet piece reaffirms that the AI edge chip market is booming, fueled by staggering venture capital financing in the hundreds of millions of dollars. EdgeQ, Kneron and Hailo are among the dozens of upstarts vying for customers, the last of which nabbed $136 million in October as it doubles down on new opportunities.

Another company competing in the increasingly saturated segment is SiMa.ai, which is developing a system-on-chip platform for AI applications particularly computer vision applications. After emerging from stealth in 2019, SiMa.ai began demoing an accelerator chipset that combines traditional compute IP from Arm with a custom machine learning accelerator and dedicated vision accelerator, linked via a proprietary interconnect,

To lay the groundwork for future growth, SiMa.ai today closed a $30 million additional investment from Fidelity Management & Research Company, with participation from Lip-Bu Tan (whos joining the board) and previous investors, concluding the startups Series B. It brings SiMa.ais total capital raised to $150 million.

The funding will be used to accelerate scaling of the engineering and business teams globally, and to continue investing in both hardware and software innovation, founder and CEO Krishna Rangasayee told TechCrunch in an email interview. The appointment of Lip-Bu Tan as the newest member of SiMa.ais board of directors is a strategic milestone for the company. He has a deep history of investing in deep tech startups that have gone on to disrupt industries across AI, data, semiconductors, among others.

Rangasayee spent most of his career in the semiconductor industry at Xilinx, where he was GM of the companys overall business. An engineer by trade Rangasayee was the COO at Groq and once headed product planning at Altera, which Intel acquired in 2015 he says that he was motivated to start SiMa.ai by the gap he saw in the machine learning market for edge devices.

I founded SiMa.ai with two questions: What are the biggest challenges in scaling machine learning to the embedded edge? and How can we help?, Rangasaye said. By listening to dozens of industry-leading customers in the machine learning trenches, SiMa.ai developed a deep understanding of their problems and needs like getting the benefits of machine learning without a steep learning curve, preserving legacy applications along with future proof ML implementations, and working with a high-performance, low-power solution in a user-friendly environment.

SiMa.ai aims to work with companies developing driverless cars, robots, medical devices, drones and more. The company claims to have completed several customer engagements and last year announced the opening of a design center in Bengaluru, India, as well as a collaboration with the University of Tbingen to identify AI hardware and software solutions for ultra-low energy consumption.

As over-100-employee SiMa.ai works to productize its first-generation chip, work is underway on the second-generation architecture, Rangasayee said.

SiMa.ais software and hardware platform can be used to enable scaling machine learning to [a range of] embedded edge applications. Even though these applications will use many diverse computer vision pipelines with a variety of machine learning models, SiMa.ais software and hardware platform has the flexibility to be used to address these, Rangasayee added. SiMa.ais platform addresses any computer vision application using any model, any framework, any sensor, any resolution [We as a company have] seized the opportunity to disrupt the burgeoning edge computing space in pursuit of displacing decades-old technology and legacy incumbents.

SiMa.ais challenges remain mass manufacturing its chips affordably and beating back the many rivals in the edge AI computing space. (The companys says that it plans to ship mass-produced production volumes of its first chip sometime this year.) But the startup stands to profit handsomely if it can capture even a sliver of the sector. Edge computing is forecast to be a $6.72 billion market by 2022, accordingto Markets and Markets. Its growth will coincide with that of the deep learning chipset market, whichsome analysts predict will reach $66.3 billion by 2025.

Machine learning has had a profound impact on the cloud and mobile markets over the past decade and the next battleground is the multi-trillion-dollar embedded edge market, Tan said in a statement. SiMa.ai has created a software-centric, purpose-built platform that exclusively targets this large market opportunity. SiMa.ais unique architecture, market understanding and world-class team has put them in a leadership position.

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A century ago, English mathematician Lewis Fry Richardson proposed a startling idea for that time: constructing a systematic process based on math for predicting the weather. In his 1922 book, Weather Prediction By Numerical Process, Richardson tried to write an equation that he could use to solve the dynamics of the atmosphere based on hand calculations.

It didnt work because not enough was known about the science of the atmosphere at that time. Perhaps some day in the dim future it will be possible to advance the computations faster than the weather advances and at a cost less than the saving to mankind due to the information gained. But that is a dream, Richardson concluded.

A century later, modern weather forecasts are based on the kind of complex computations that Richardson imagined and theyve become more accurate than anything he envisioned. Especially in recent decades, steady progress in research, data and computing has enabled a quiet revolution of numerical weather prediction.

For example, a forecast of heavy rainfall two days in advance is now as good as a same-day forecast was in the mid-1990s. Errors in the predicted tracks of hurricanes have been cut in half in the last 30 years.

There still are major challenges. Thunderstorms that produce tornadoes, large hail or heavy rain remain difficult to predict. And then theres chaos, often described as the butterfly effect the fact that small changes in complex processes make weather less predictable. Chaos limits our ability to make precise forecasts beyond about 10 days.

As in many other scientific fields, the proliferation of tools like artificial intelligence and machine learning holds great promise for weather prediction. We have seen some of whats possible in our research on applying machine learning to forecasts of high-impact weather. But we also believe that while these tools open up new possibilities for better forecasts, many parts of the job are handled more skillfully by experienced people.

Today, weather forecasters primary tools are numerical weather prediction models. These models use observations of the current state of the atmosphere from sources such as weather stations, weather balloons and satellites, and solve equations that govern the motion of air.

These models are outstanding at predicting most weather systems, but the smaller a weather event is, the more difficult it is to predict. As an example, think of a thunderstorm that dumps heavy rain on one side of town and nothing on the other side. Furthermore, experienced forecasters are remarkably good at synthesizing the huge amounts of weather information they have to consider each day, but their memories and bandwidth are not infinite.

Artificial intelligence and machine learning can help with some of these challenges. Forecasters are using these tools in several ways now, including making predictions of high-impact weather that the models cant provide.

In a project that started in 2017 and was reported in a 2021 paper, we focused on heavy rainfall. Of course, part of the problem is defining heavy: Two inches of rain in New Orleans may mean something very different than in Phoenix. We accounted for this by using observations of unusually large rain accumulations for each location across the country, along with a history of forecasts from a numerical weather prediction model.

We plugged that information into a machine learning method known as random forests, which uses many decision trees to split a mass of data and predict the likelihood of different outcomes. The result is a tool that forecasts the probability that rains heavy enough to generate flash flooding will occur.

We have since applied similar methods to forecasting of tornadoes, large hail and severe thunderstorm winds. Other research groups are developing similar tools. National Weather Service forecasters are using some of these tools to better assess the likelihood of hazardous weather on a given day.

Researchers also are embedding machine learning within numerical weather prediction models to speed up tasks that can be intensive to compute, such as predicting how water vapor gets converted to rain, snow or hail.

Its possible that machine learning models could eventually replace traditional numerical weather prediction models altogether. Instead of solving a set of complex physical equations as the models do, these systems instead would process thousands of past weather maps to learn how weather systems tend to behave. Then, using current weather data, they would make weather predictions based on what theyve learned from the past.

Some studies have shown that machine learning-based forecast systems can predict general weather patterns as well as numerical weather prediction models while using only a fraction of the computing power the models require. These new tools dont yet forecast the details of local weather that people care about, but with many researchers carefully testing them and inventing new methods, there is promise for the future.

There are also reasons for caution. Unlike numerical weather prediction models, forecast systems that use machine learning are not constrained by the physical laws that govern the atmosphere. So its possible that they could produce unrealistic results for example, forecasting temperature extremes beyond the bounds of nature. And it is unclear how they will perform during highly unusual or unprecedented weather phenomena.

And relying on AI tools can raise ethical concerns. For instance, locations with relatively few weather observations with which to train a machine learning system may not benefit from forecast improvements that are seen in other areas.

Another central question is how best to incorporate these new advances into forecasting. Finding the right balance between automated tools and the knowledge of expert human forecasters has long been a challenge in meteorology. Rapid technological advances will only make it more complicated.

Ideally, AI and machine learning will allow human forecasters to do their jobs more efficiently, spending less time on generating routine forecasts and more on communicating forecasts implications and impacts to the public or, for private forecasters, to their clients. We believe that careful collaboration between scientists, forecasters and forecast users is the best way to achieve these goals and build trust in machine-generated weather forecasts.

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It sounds like a contradiction in terms, but disaster and disruption management is a thing. Disaster and disruption are precisely what ensues when catastrophic natural events occur, and unfortunately, the trajectory the world is on seems to be exacerbating the issue. In 2021 alone, the US experienced15+ weather/climate disaster eventswith damages exceeding $1 billion.

Previously, we have explored various aspects of the ways data science and machine learning intertwine with natural events -- fromweather predictiontothe impact of climate change on extreme phenomenaandmeasuring the impact of disaster relief. AiDash, however, is aiming at something different: helping utility and energy companies, as well as governments and cities, manage the impact of natural disasters, including storms and wildfires.

We connected with AiDash co-founder and CEO Abhishek Singh to learn more about its mission and approach, as well its newly releasedDisaster and Disruption Management System (DDMS).

Singh describes himself as a serial entrepreneur with multiple successful exits. Hailing from India, Singh founded one of the world's first mobile app development companies in 2005 and then an education tech company in 2011.

Following the merger of Singh's mobile tech company with a system integrator, the company was publicly listed, and Singh moved to the US. Eventually, he realized that power outages are a problem in the US, with the wildfires of 2017 were a turning point for him.

That, and the fact that satellite technology has been maturing -- with Singh marking 2018 as an inflection point for the technology -- led to founding AiDash in 2020.

AiDash notes that satellite technology has reached maturity as a viable tool. Over 1,000 satellites are launched every year, employing various electromagnetic bands, including multispectral bands and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) bands.

The company uses satellite data, combined with a multitude of other data, and builds products around predictive AI models to allow preparation and resource placement, evaluate damages to understand what restoration is needed and which sites are accessible and help plan the restoration itself.

AiDash uses a variety of data sources. Weather data, to be able to predict the course storms take and their intensity. Third-party or enterprise data, to know what assets need to be protected and what their locations are.

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The company's primary client thus far has been utility companies. For them, a common scenario involves damages caused by falling trees or floods. Vegetation, in general, is a key factor in AiDash AI models but not the only one.

As Singh noted, AiDash has developed various AI models for specific use cases. Some of them include an encroachment model, an asset health model, a tree health model and an outage prediction model.

Those models have taken considerable expertise to develop. As Singh noted, in order to do that, AiDash is employing people such as agronomists and pipeline integrity experts.

"This is what differentiates a product from a technology solution. AI is good but not good enough if it's not domain-specific, so the domain becomes very important. We have this team in-house, and their knowledge has been used in building these products and, more importantly, identifying what variables are more important than others", said Singh.

To exemplify the application of domain knowledge, Singh referred to trees. As he explained, more than 50% of outages that happen during a storm are because of falling trees. Poles don't normally fall on their own -- generally, it's trees that fall on wires and snap them or cause poles to fall. Therefore, he added that understanding trees is more important than understanding the weather in this context.

"There are many weather companies. In fact, we partner with them -- we don't compete with them. We take their weather data, and we believe that the weather prediction model, which is also a complicated model, works. But then we supplement that with tree knowledge", said Singh.

In addition, AiDash uses data and models about the assets utilities manage. Things such as what parts may break when lightning strikes, or when devices were last serviced. This localized, domain-specific information is what makes predictions granular. How granular?

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Supplementing data and AI models with domain-specific knowledge, in this case knowledge about trees, is what makes the difference for AiDash

"We know each and every tree in the network. We know each and every asset in the network. We know their maintenance history. We know the health of the tree. Now, we can make predictions when we supplement that with weather information and the storm's path in real-time. We don't make a prediction that Texas will see this much damage. We make a prediction that this street in this city will see this much damage," Singh said.

In addition to utilizing domain knowledge and a wide array of data, Singh also identified something else as key to AiDash's success: serving the right amount of information to the right people the right way. All the data live and feed the elaborate models under the hood and are only exposed when needed -- for example if required by regulation.

For the most part, what AiDash serves is solutions, not insights, as Singh put it. Users access DDMS via a mobile application and a web application. Mobile applications are meant to be used by people in the field, and they also serve to provide validation for the system's predictions. For the people doing the planning, a web dashboard is provided, which they can use to see the status in real-time.

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DDMS is the latest addition toAiDash's product suite, including the Intelligent Vegetation Management System, the Intelligent Sustainability Management System, the Asset Cockpit and Remote Monitoring & Inspection. DDMS is currently focused on storms and wildfires, with the goal being to extend it to other natural calamities like earthquakes and floods, Singh said.

The company's plans also include extending its customer base to public authorities. As Singh said, when data for a certain region are available, they can be used to deliver solutions to different entities. Some of these could also be given free of charge to government entities, especially in a disaster scenario, as AiDash does not incur an incremental cost.

AiDash is headquartered in California, with its 215 employees spread in offices in San Jose and Austin in Texas, Washington DC, London and India. The company also has clients worldwide and has been seeing significant growth. As Singh shared, the goal is to go public around 2025.

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'Muhammad Ali The Next Legends' is part of ASM's new long-term partnership with Authentic Brands Group (ABG), which owns Muhammad Ali Enterprises in partnership with Lonnie Ali, who is a trustee of the Muhammad Ali Family Trust. The game will be driven by ASM's artificial intelligence protocol, while web3 creative factory Non-Fungible Labs leads the visual game and character design. This partnership is the first of many for ABG's brands within the ASM ecosystem.

When 'Muhammad Ali The Next Legends' launches, players will be able to collect unique NFT boxers powered by ASM's artificial intelligence, train them and compete for the first time in a fully AI, web3 combat experience. Players will eventually need to unite two NFTs to play the game an ASM Brain, which is also an NFT, with their boxer. Utilizing "Artificial Intelligence Gyms," a signature component of the ASM Protocol, owners will train their brain on the skills needed to win a match (i.e., agility, endurance, stance, sparring, jabs, hooks and uppercuts). Following in the footsteps of the 3-time world champion, the goal of the game will be to train and develop your boxer and win matches against other boxers to eventually become "The Next Legend." Each 3D boxer is completely unique in both the physical character model and its mental ability. Minting dates for boxers and additional game details about the game will be revealed in the coming months.

"We are incredibly excited and honored to welcome world-renowned icon Muhammad Ali into web3," says David McDonald, CEO of ASM. "ABG's portfolio of world-leading brands make them the ideal partner to introduce NFT-curious consumers to the metaverse. Our Non-Fungible Intelligence powers and revolutionizes web3 gaming by allowing NFT owners to train their characters, producing limitless possibilities and interoperable use cases in the metaverse."

"We are thrilled for fans to immerse themselves in the world of 'Muhammad Ali The Next Legends'," said Marc Rosen, President, Entertainment at ABG. "ABG is delighted to kick off this unique partnership with ASM by using the strength of our brands to positively contribute to storytelling behind ASM's innovative technology."

"Our team is so proud to be on the cutting edge creating an entire digital world inspired by Muhammad Ali," says Alex Smeele, CEO at Non-Fungible Labs. "The Next Legends project is a huge endeavor as we are working to ensure every single aspect and character is unique and one-of-a-kind. These boxers have distinct personalities and characteristics and it's been an adventure for our team to build."

About Altered State MachineAltered State Machine (ASM) are leaders in the democratization of Artificial Intelligence, creating a world where the value of A.I. flows directly back to the community. ASM's revolutionary protocol allows everyone to own and utilize A.I. via NFT Brains, also known as Non-Fungible IntelligenceTM. Non-Fungible IntelligenceTM is interoperable across avatars, games, worlds and other Web3 applications, and is trained and owned by each individual user. Join the movement for decentralized Artificial Intelligence with Altered State Machine. Follow ASM on Twitter, Instagramand Discord.

About Non-Fungible LabsNon-Fungible Labs is a web3 dream factory based in Auckland, New Zealand. With an existing ecosystem of successful projects, including FLUF World, NF Labs are working closely with a range of partners to co-create fun and immersive decentralized content on their mission to empower everyday creatives in the development of an open metaverse.

Follow NF Labs on Twitter, Instagramand Facebook.

About Muhammad AliMuhammad Ali is one of the most influential athletes and humanitarians of the 20th century and has created some of the most legendary moments in sports and civil rights history. More than 50 years after he emerged as a Gold Medalist in Boxing at the 1960 Rome Olympics, Ali's legacy extends beyond the ring and he continues to be widely recognized as one of the most celebrated and beloved icons of all time. His incomparable work ethic, signature boxing techniques, and fearlessness towards standing up for his beliefs, all contribute to the legend that is Muhammad Ali. Among his countless awards and accolades, he was named Sports Illustrated's "Sportsman of the Century," GQ's "Athlete of the Century," a United Nations Messenger of Peace, and has received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Amnesty International Lifetime Achievement Award. Muhammad Ali's legacy is celebrated across cultures and continues to inspire today's most influential athletes, artists, musicians and humanitarians around the world. Follow Muhammad Ali on Instagram, Facebook andTwitter.

About Authentic Brands GroupAuthentic Brands Group (ABG) is a brand development, marketing and entertainment company, which owns a portfolio of global media, entertainment and lifestyle brands. Headquartered in New York City, with offices around the world, ABG elevates and builds the long-term value of more than 50 consumer brands and properties by partnering with best-in-class manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers. Its brands have a global retail footprint across the luxury, specialty, department store, mid-tier, mass and e-commerce channels and in more than 6,100 freestanding stores and shop-in-shops around the world.

ABG is committed to transforming brands by delivering compelling product, content, business and immersive experiences. It creates and activates original marketing strategies to drive the success of its brands across all consumer touchpoints, platforms and emerging media.

ABG's portfolio of iconic and world-renowned brands generates more than $21.3 billion in global annual retail sales, and includes Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Muhammad Ali, Shaquille O'Neal, David Beckham, Dr. J, Greg Norman, Neil Lane, Thalia, Sports Illustrated, Reebok, Eddie Bauer, Spyder, Volcom, Airwalk, Nautica, Izod, Forever 21, Aropostale, Juicy Couture, Vince Camuto, Lucky Brand, Nine West, Jones New York, Frederick's of Hollywood, Adrienne Vittadini, Van Heusen, Arrow, Tretorn, Tapout, Prince, Vision Street Wear, Brooks Brothers, Barneys New York, Judith Leiber, Herve Leger, Frye, Hickey Freeman, Hart Schaffner Marx, Thomasville, Drexel and Henredon.

For more information, visit authenticbrands.com.Follow ABG on Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram.

Authentic Brands/Muhammad Ali Contact:Michelle Ciciyasvili[emailprotected]

Altered State Machine Contact:Chelsey Northern[emailprotected]

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LONDON, May 24, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- According to The Business Research Companys research report on the artificial intelligence (AI) in drug discovery market, the rising adoption of cloud-based applications and services by pharmaceutical companies will contribute to the growth of AI in the drug discovery market. Among the various end-users of cloud-based drug discovery platforms, pharmaceutical vendors are likely to be major stakeholders, holding a high-value share of the global cloud-based drug discovery platform market. An opportunity analysis of the global market reveals that leading software vendors have already adopted cloud-based drug discovery platforms to facilitate seamless research and development processes. Moreover, the cloud-based drug discovery platform revolution will witness significant growth in the coming years, thereby creating better opportunities for software vendors for growth and expansion. For example, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company, announced in December 2021 that it is collaborating with Pfizer to develop innovative, cloud-based solutions that have the potential to improve how new medicines are developed, manufactured, and distributed for clinical trials. The companies are exploring these advances through their newly created Pfizer Amazon Collaboration Team (PACT) initiative, which applies AWS capabilities in analytics, machine learning, compute, storage, security, and cloud data warehousing to Pfizer laboratory, clinical manufacturing, and clinical supply chain efforts. Thus, the increasing adoption of cloud-based applications and services by pharmaceutical companies will contribute positively to the AI drug discovery market size.

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The global artificial intelligence in drug discovery market size is expected to grow from $0.79 billion in 2021 to $1.04 billion in 2022 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 31.6%. The growth in the market is mainly due to the companies resuming their operations and adapting to the new normal while recovering from the COVID-19 impact, which had earlier led to restrictive containment measures involving social distancing, remote working, and the closure of commercial activities that resulted in operational challenges. The AI in drug discovery market is expected to reach $2.99 billion in 2026 at a CAGR of 30.2%.

Use of AI through Machine Learning (ML) is a trend in assessing pre-clinical studies during the drug development process. Pre-clinical studies are non-clinical studies for novel drug substances to establish clinical efficacy and safety in a controlled environment before testing with a final target population. ML modelling pharmacokinetic (PK) and pharmacodynamic (PD) methodologies are applied in in-vitro and preclinical PK studies to successfully anticipate the dose concentration response relationship of pipeline assets. In addition, deep learning methodologies are employed as In-Silico methods for successfully predicting the therapeutic/pharmacological properties of novel molecules by utilizing transcriptomic data, which includes various biological systems and controlled conditions. Besides the drug discovery market, machine learning technology finds its application in the AI in medical diagnostics market as well as AI in medical imaging market.

Major players in the artificial intelligence for drug discovery and development market are IBM Corporation, Microsoft, Atomwise Inc., Deep Genomics, Cloud Pharmaceuticals, Insilico Medicine, Benevolent AI, Exscientia, Cyclica, and BIOAGE.

The global artificial intelligence in drug discovery market report is segmented by technology into deep learning, machine learning; by drug type into small molecule, large molecules; by disease type into metabolic disease, cardiovascular disease, oncology, neurodegenerative diseases, others; by end-users into pharmaceutical companies, biopharmaceutical companies, academic and research institutes, others.

In 2021, North America was the largest region in the artificial intelligence (AI) in drug discovery market. It was followed by the Asia-Pacific, Western Europe, and then the other regions. The regions covered in the AI in drug discovery market report are Asia-Pacific, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, North America, South America, Middle East, and Africa.

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