Vice President Kamala Harris' Office released a new framework for US space policy on Wednesday, showing how the Biden Administration plans approach to civil, commercial and national security-related use of space amid growing commercial interests and concerns about Chinese and Russian competition. The seven-page document, titled the'United States Space Priorities Framework,' includes many of the same space priorities from the Trump administration, such as the Artemis program, but cites using space to fight climate change and the importance of investing in STEM education. Harris, set to convene the inaugural meeting of the National Space Council at 1:30pm ET, plans to ask members of the government body'to accelerate, expand, and develop rules and norms for responsible behavior in space,' the White House said. 'We are on the cusp of historic changes in access to and use of space - changes that have the potential to bring the benefits of space to more people and communities than ever before,' the administration said in a report outlining its space priorities. Vice President Kamala Harris' Office released a new framework for US space policy on Wednesday, showing how the Biden Administration plans approach to civil, commercial and national security-related use of space amid growing commercial interests and concerns about Chinese and Russian competition This will mark the first meeting of the National Space Council during the Biden Administration.

Chatbots are designed to streamline interactions between people and services, by increasing the ease of use and facilitating the carrying out of designed tasks. Chatbots exist in mental health, retail, real estate, travel, customer service, B2B transactions, and the insurance sector. EMMA is a chatbot developed for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration services of Department of Home Land Security. This chatbot is able of handling up to one million applicants per month. EMMA handle requests, in both English and Spanish, pertaining to immigration services, green card, passports and other services this entity offers. MISSI provides all the relevant information regarding the state of Mississippi.

The Government of India plans to migrate towards technology-based yield estimation from the conventional Crop Cutting Experiment (CCE) based yield estimation approach. Towards this, few pilot studies have been initiated by taking various government and private agencies onboard. During Kharif 2019, pilot studies were conducted through 12 agencies in 64 districts of 15 states for nine crops envisaging innovative technologies such as high-resolution satellite data (optical and microwave), unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), advanced multi-parameter crop models, mobile applications for field data collection, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), sensor networks, internet of things (IoT), field-based digital photographs, handheld instruments and scientifically designed sampling plans. These approaches were validated in Rabi 2019-20 in 15 blocks of six states. The pilot studies were scaled up to 100 districts with the help of seven agencies for paddy crop in Kharif – 2020, and for paddy and wheat in the Rabi season of 2020-21 in 100 districts of 13 states.

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Flexiv, the world leader in general-purpose robotics, has received CE and ETL approval for their Rizon 4 robot, making it the first-ever seven-axis force-controlled adaptive robot to achieve both certifications at the same time. "The CE and ETL certification is an essential regulatory milestone on Flexiv's road to commercialization" Demonstrating the intrinsic safety of the Rizon 4 robot, the CE and ETL approval was awarded by the world's foremost testing, inspection, certification and assurance provider, Intertek. Accepted in the EU and Northern America, the approval enables Flexiv to distribute the Rizon 4 in the European Union, Canada, and the USA. Meeting or exceeding the strict CE and ETL requirements, the Rizon 4 was subjected to hundreds of individual testing, evaluations, and assessments focused on machinery safety, electrical safety, functional safety, environmental reliability, electromagnetic compatibility, and collision detection. During the testing the Rizon 4 was also exposed to temperatures ranging from 0-45 C, dust particulates, and water jets from any direction.

NATO has officially kicked off two new efforts meant to help the alliance invest in critical next-generation technologies and avoid capability gaps between its member nations. For months, officials have set the ground stage to launch a new Defense Innovator Accelerator -- nicknamed DIANA -- and establish an innovation fund to support private companies developing dual-use technologies. Both of those measures were formally agreed upon during NATO's meeting of defense ministers last month in Brussels, said Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg. Allies signed the agreement to establish the NATO Innovation Fund and launch DIANA on Oct. 22, the final day of the two-day conference, Stoltenberg said in a media briefing that day. He expects the fund to invest €1 billion (U.S. $1.16 billion) into companies and academic partners working on emerging and disruptive technologies.

Governments need to curb the power of tech companies and increase the power of workers in order to safeguard people from unsafe uses of artificial intelligence, Google's former AI ethics chief Timnit Gebru told a hearing at the European Parliament on Tuesday. "When asked what regulations need to be in place," she said, "I say the number one thing that would safeguard us from unsafe uses of AI is curbing the power of the companies who develop it, and increasing the power of those who speak up against not only the harms of AI but the tech companies' practices." Gebru said one good example was the state of California's Silence No More Act, which makes it illegal for companies to prevent employees from speaking out about harassment or discrimination. "I think this needs to be universal. I think that companies need to have much stronger punishments for violating any of these laws, like the huge aggressive union-busting activities that we see by Amazon," she continued.

Synthetic data is in for a banner year, as businesses look to leverage AI for a growing number of increasingly-sophisticated applications, including tackling the world's supply-chain disruptions, reinventing automotive safety, and creating a whole new class of intelligent consumer goods with the metaverse at the fore TEL AVIV, Israel, Nov. 30, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Datagen, the pioneer of domain-specific synthetic data for humans and object perception, today released its new year's predictions for the fields of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Computer Vision. As AI makes its way into ubiquitous adoption by a growing number of industries and applications, the demand for robust training data will expand accordingly. However, with manual data collection already at the limits of its own utility, the race for AI supremacy will only serve to widen the existing gulf between supply and demand. At the same time, companies like Datagen are making it easier and more affordable to generate high-quality synthetic datasets to train computer vision (CV) AI models. The ability to generate tens of thousands of synthetic images -- customized to suit the unique parameters of each distinct application -- makes synthetic data the obvious solution to the limitations of traditional, manually-collected data.

All faces are not considered equal by Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems! A typical commercial AI face recognition system most accurately predicts fair-skinned males. The accuracy for detecting dark-skinned women is lower by over 30 percentage points, says Joy Buolamwini, Founder, Algorithmic Justice League. AI computer vision systems will appropriately classify and label the image of a bride in a typical western gown. However, when it was asked to classify the image of an Indian bride wearing a red sari, it is classified as an event, a costume or performing art.

Government enlists AI tools to flag'destructive' content Increasing number of Russians face court over social media posts Activists fear AI will be used to stifle dissent The company and law firm names shown above are generated automatically based on the text of the article. We are improving this feature as we continue to test and develop in beta. We welcome feedback, which you can provide using the feedback tab on the right of the page. TBILISI, Nov 30 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A woman posing in a thong outside a church; a single mother who berated Russian lawmakers and President Vladimir Putin; a saxophonist who criticised World War Two commemorations. They are among thousands of Russians who have faced court over their social media posts in the past year - a number digital rights groups say could soon turn into a deluge as authorities use artificial intelligence (AI) to police the web.