When the UK government decided to cancel school exams due to the coronavirus pandemic, they gave examination regulators Ofqual a challenge: allocate grades to students anyway, and make sure the grades given out this year are equivalent in standard to previous years. Ofqual's solution was to create an algorithm – a computer program designed to predict what grades the students would have received if they had taken exams. Unfortunately, when the computer-generated grades were issued, 40 per cent of A-Level students got lower grades than their teachers had predicted. Promised university places were withdrawn. Lawyers offered to take legal action against Ofqual.

Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is at the core of a vision that leads the future of our world. Its main goal is to provide autonomous solutions for each mankind's problem, a fully automated system that will serve humans and live among them. Artificial Intelligence is the technology to fulfill such a vision. At the intersection of computer science and data science, AI's first step is to create a computational representation of everything. Algorithms & Big Data are the two keys.

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A Japanese government-funded project to develop the world's first predictive maintenance system for industrial plants will employ artificial intelligence and advanced technology to store data in a secure and user-centric way. The IOTA Foundation, a German-based nonprofit organization behind the technology, said it has been chosen as a partner in the project funded by Japan's New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization, a national research and development agency operating under the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. The project, which seeks to strengthen the durability of critical infrastructure, will optimize facility management systems deployed in power, industrial, petrochemicals and oil refining plants throughout Japan by digitizing maintenance data and using artificial intelligence to predict when checkups are needed, according to the foundation. Data for plants across Japan is currently stored manually, causing issues with integrity and sharing capability, it said. The project aims to shift data to a decentralized database using IOTA's distributed ledger service called the Tangle, while AI systems are expected to replace engineers amid Japan's shrinking labor force.

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A new survey offers some evidence that most artificial intelligence experts are positive or neutral when it comes to working with the Pentagon on AI-enabled projects. Why it matters: Employee concerns have led some tech companies to pull back from working on defense-related projects in the past, but for many in the AI world, the chance to work on intellectually challenging projects -- and the Pentagon's not insignificant budget -- seems too good to pass up. What's happening: In a report released earlier this week -- with the memorable title "'Cool Projects' or'Expanding the Efficiency of the Murderous American War Machine?'" -- researchers at CSET surveyed 160 AI professionals about their attitudes toward working on DoD projects. Flashback: In 2018, after thousands of employees signed a protest letter, Google CEO Sundar Pichai pulled out of a contract to work on Project Maven, a DoD-funded pilot AI program to develop computer vision algorithms. Yes, but: That narrative was "overblown," argues New America's Singer.

Military operations are facing an increasingly disruptive battlefield from information warfare, to malicious cyber activity, and political information subversion. Combating these threats not only requires rapid advancements in data and adoption of transformative technologies such as AI and machine learning, but also a change in the traditional mindset and culture of all ranks in the military. Military branches have needed to be forward thinking to make sure they keep up with these adapting environments and threats. In particular, the Department Of The Air Force has understood that in order to combat these new threats they need to educate and train their airmen accordingly. By increasing data-use and literacy to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of decisions, readiness, mission operations, and cybersecurity, the Department of the Air Force is changing their culture to be a more collaborative organization.

New Delhi: Russia will host its mega "artificial intelligence journey" event in December virtually and the event will see major participation from India. A record-high number of Indian participants and many Indian origin keynote speakers are set to speak at the event to be held from December 3-5. Anima Anandkumar from California Institute of Technology, Pradeep Dubey of Intel, Gurdeep Singh of Microsoft are among the speakers at the event. Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke at the same meet in 2019. The event is sponsored by Sberbank, Russia's state-owned bank and one of the largest banks in the country and central and Eastern European region.

Quality of life assessment represents a key process of deciding treatment success and viability. As such, patients' perceptions of their functional status and well-being are important inputs for impairment assessment. Given that patient completed questionnaires are often used to assess patient status and determine future treatment options, it is important to know the level of agreement of the words used by patients and different groups of medical professionals. In this paper, we propose a measure called the Agreement Ratio which provides a ratio of overall agreement when modelling words through Fuzzy Sets (FSs). The measure has been specifically designed for assessing this agreement in fuzzy sets which are generated from data such as patient responses. The measure relies on using the Jaccard Similarity Measure for comparing the different levels of agreement in the FSs generated.

The Listening Post focuses on women in the national security space. This new column offers a collection of experienced national security insights, interviews, and profiles of women who are ushering in the new era of national security. Lauren Zabierek is Executive Director of the Cyber Project at Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. OPINION -- Emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), 5G telecommunications, and Quantum Computing hold great promise for the global good–from disease detection and treatment development to greater internet connectivity and possibilities we haven't even imagined yet. However, adversarial countries like Russia and China exploit technology to further their worldview to the detriment of the United States and its allies.