On one screen, an urban professional in Oslo taps through ultra-secure banking apps, relies on an AI-powered personal assistant, and streams media seamlessly over high-speed 5G using their iPhone. On the other screen, a farmer in Malawi scrolls through a modest Android phone -- likely costing less than a week's wages -- just to read the news, check tomorrow's weather, and send WhatsApp messages over a patchy mobile connection. These very different experiences highlight the divide between the Global North and the Global South. These terms refer not only to geographic locations but also to the world's wealthiest and most industrialized regions -- such as Europe, North America, and parts of East Asia -- and economically developing nations across much of Africa, Latin America, South Asia, and Oceania. Technology symbolizes innovation, convenience, and seamless connectivity in the Global North.

Hosted by Ben Byford, The Machine Ethics Podcast brings together interviews with academics, authors, business leaders, designers and engineers on the subject of autonomous algorithms, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and technology's impact on society. In this episode we're chatting to Caitlin about gender and AI, that technology isn't neutral, using technology for good, diversity creation and exploitation, lived experience expertise, co-creating technologies and AI life cycle, importance of success metrics, international treaties on AI, and more… Alliance is a leader of the UN's Generation Equality Action Coalition Technology & Innovation for Gender Equality. Caitlin was co-chair of the Expert Group for the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW67) in 2023 with its first ever priority theme of Technology & Innovation. Caitlin leads the Human Rights Toolbox initiative, an educational platform that supports a global community working for a human rights-based approach to AI – with equity & inclusion at the core of the code. Women at the Table are a leader of the fr feminist AI research Network, with Hubs in Latin America & the Caribbean, Middle East & North Africa, SouthEastAsia, and sister network in Africa, and serves as Civil Society lead for the World Benchmarking Alliance's Collective Impact Coalition for Ethical AI.

The number of 5G subscriptions is expected to hit 5.6 billion worldwide by the end of 2029, when 5G will be the dominant network in all regions except for three. Globally, 5G is projected to account for 60% of all mobile subscriptions by the end of 2029, according to the latest Ericsson Mobility Report. It also will drive 75% of overall mobile data traffic, which will see a compound annual growth rate of 20% through 2029. The report noted that annual mobile data traffic growth is projected to slow at varying rates across different regions during the forecast period, depending on local market dynamics. Noting that traffic growth can be volatile, Ericsson pointed to factors such as global macroeconomic changes, growth in fixed wireless access (FWA) connections, and subscriber migration to later generations in markets such as India, Southeast Asia, Latin America, and Africa.

Leo Prieto's passion for nature started during his childhood by the sea. "I was obsessed with what was under the surface. I'd anchor myself to a rock with my snorkel, and I was fascinated by all the little animals doing things that go unnoticed." His teenage years coincided with the arrival of the internet in Chile, where he became a web pioneer, launching and selling several startups. Inevitably, his interests in the environment, the internet and business merged, driven by the feeling that technological advances should not be wasted.

Modern virtual assistants use internal semantic parsing engines to convert user utterances to actionable commands. However, prior work has demonstrated that semantic parsing is a difficult multilingual transfer task with low transfer efficiency compared to other tasks. In global markets such as India and Latin America, this is a critical issue as switching between languages is prevalent for bilingual users. In this work we dramatically improve the zero-shot performance of a multilingual and codeswitched semantic parsing system using two stages of multilingual alignment. First, we show that constrastive alignment pretraining improves both English performance and transfer efficiency. We then introduce a constrained optimization approach for hyperparameter-free adversarial alignment during finetuning. Our Doubly Aligned Multilingual Parser (DAMP) improves mBERT transfer performance by 3x, 6x, and 81x on the Spanglish, Hinglish and Multilingual Task Oriented Parsing benchmarks respectively and outperforms XLM-R and mT5-Large using 3.2x fewer parameters.

A demo of Google's flood-forecasting technology shown at a Google AI event in November. We've seen artificial intelligence (AI) do everything from write an essay to develop an entire business -- but did you know that it can help mitigate the dangers of natural disasters, too? Last November, Google released its AI-enabled flood-forecasting platform, FloodHub, to 20 countries around the globe. This platform takes Google's AI flood-tracking technology and uses the data to display where and when floods might occur on an interactive world map. Google has now expanded FloodHub to 80 countries worldwide, adding 60 new countries across Africa, the Asia-Pacific region, Europe, and South and Central America.

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San Diego, California, March 28, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- HUMBL, Inc. (OTCQB: HMBL) HUMBL announced today the launch of its Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Automated Machine Learning initiatives across its consumer, commercial and Latin America business units. On the commercial side, HUMBL kicked off its AI / Automated Machine Learning initiatives with the announcement of its first commercial sales contract in its HUMBL Latin America subsidiary, with the sale of AI / Automated Machine Learning services for a leading IT / Telecommunications provider in the Latin America region in the form of a $60,000 (USD) contract for initial deliverables and a total contract value of $195,000 (USD) over three years, pending the achievement of milestones by HUMBL Latin America. "Artificial Intelligence is an accelerant to the principles of web3," said Brian Foote, CEO of HUMBL. "The use of public data sets to create more autonomous, intelligent outcomes for consumers, as well as the corporations and governments that serve them, is an excellent use of automated machine learning technologies," continued Foote. "The use of AI can help our clients model for more predictive outcomes around things like credit scoring, default rates, churn rates, healthcare patterns and more; driving more tailored experiences for consumers, while driving revenues and improved efficiencies for corporations and governments."

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Esker, a global cloud platform and leader in AI-driven process automation solutions for Finance and Customer Service functions, announced a strategic partnership with Ecuador-based BPONE: The Best Professional Outsourcing, a global company specializing in outsourcing and consulting services. With BPONE's deep understanding of the local market and Esker's industry-leading technology, the partnership is poised to drive significant growth and impact for both companies in Latin America as they seek to advance digitization throughout the region. "Many Latin American businesses continue to rely on manual processes to handle back-office tasks rather than applying technology-forward advancements to boost productivity" Since 2016, BPONE has maintained a growth mindset at the forefront of its operations. The company successfully expanded from Ecuador to open new offices in Colombia, Peru, the U.S., Spain and more to further establish its global footprint. As its reach grew, company leadership recognized the need for a sophisticated automation intelligence system to offer to its clients that could handle an influx of invoices and streamline efficiencies while decreasing mistakes caused by manual tasks.