The Information and Communication Technology state minister Zunaid Ahmed Palak on Friday urged everyone to utilize the prospects of artificial intelligence for developing the people's living standard. 'The power of artificial intelligence can change the society. There is an opportunity to do many things for human by properly utilizing the artificial intelligence technology,' he said. The state minister was speaking at a discussion at the workshop on'Artificial Intelligence for All,' marking the'India Economic Summit 2019' at Taj Palace Hotel in New Delhi, said a press release in Dhaka. Asia-Pacific America Leadership team advisor Deepankar Sanwalka and Hewlett Packard Enterprise India managing director Som Satsange, among others, were present during the discussion.

A growing body of research suggests that the facial movements of almost anyone can be synced to audio clips of speech, given a sufficiently large corpus. In June, applied scientists at Samsung detailed an end-to-end model capable of animating the eyebrows, mouth, and eyelashes, and cheeks in a person's headshot. Only a few weeks later, Udacity revealed a system that automatically generates standup lecture videos from audio narration. And two years ago, Carnegie Mellon researchers published a paper describing an approach for transferring the facial movements from one person to another. Building on this and other work, a Microsoft Research team this week laid out a technique they claim improves the fidelity of audio-driven talking heads animations.

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This morning, BMO announced that it is making a $5 million investment in a new University of Toronto lab called the BMO Lab for Creative Research in the Arts, Performance, Emerging Technologies, and AI. This is the bank's largest investment in a Canadian post secondary institution to date. The BMO Lab will host high-profile, public artistic events, and aims to create a global network of artists and researchers that combine art and technology. The BMO lab will be housed within the University of Toronto's Centre for Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies. Students from the arts, humanities, sciences, and engineering will be able to explore how AI and other technologies can impact artistic expression.

ODSC is the best community data science event on the planet. There are other events that cover special topics, or industries, etc., but ODSC is comprehensive and totally community-focused: it's the conference to engage, to build, to develop, and to learn from the whole data science community. ODSC West 2019 is one of the largest applied data science conferences in the world. Our speakers include some of the core contributors to many open source tools, libraries, and languages. Attend ODSC West 2019 and learn the latest AI & data science topics, tools, and languages from some of the best and brightest minds in the field.

This is part two of a two-part interview with Blendid co-founder and CEO, Vipin Jain. Imagine you wanted to create a replicator like you saw on Star Trek. You've successfully figured out how to connect software that directs a robot, a working piece of hardware, that can execute a recipe; repeatedly, with consistent results. Now it's time to go big. "We had a lot of debate around what we should make first. It came down to choosing a food category. It had to be big enough to have mass appeal, especially to millennials and centennials," Vipin said.

There are three categories of AIEd tool being used in schools and colleges today: learner-facing (eg adaptive learning platforms), teacher-facing (eg automated assessment tools, or advanced teacher dashboards) and system-facing (eg analysing data from across schools to predict school inspection performance). The UK has a competitive advantage in education technology and artificial intelligence, but without government support and public funding this advantage risks being lost. Despite its huge potential, AIEd is underdeveloped. Our analysis identified only £1m of public funding for AIEd R&D since 2014 (far less than spending in comparable sectors such as healthcare). There are demand and supply-side market failures preventing development and maturity of AIEd, which government intervention can address.

Goodhart's Law states that "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." At their heart, what most current AI approaches do is to optimize metrics. The practice of optimizing metrics is not new nor unique to AI, yet AI can be particularly efficient (even too efficient!) This is important to understand, because any risks of optimizing metrics are heightened by AI. While metrics can be useful in their proper place, there are harms when they are unthinkingly applied.

Photo by Andras Vas on unsplash Previous posts in this series have highlighted the importance of human intelligence and emotion in education. We have traversed several emerging ideas, including the use of virtual teaching assistants (chatbots), ultra-personalised learning and machine intelligence, but the most important component in education is still the human element. Other jobs in society may already have been supplanted by robotics and artificial intelligence. Mostly, they are repetitive, low level or dangerous jobs, but replacing teachers with computers is neither desirable nor expedient. However, replacing some aspects of what teachers do is both effective and inevitable.

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