We live in an age of increasing centralization that pervades all aspects of our culture. In today's world, centralization equates to control; centralization equates to power. Centralization gave rise to bureaucratic institutions where decisions, borne by a few, ran through a hierarchical structure. This ensured a system where one authority determined how systems were run and how objectives were met. This is symbolic of how authoritarian governments operate.

My wife's father was a perfect mix of Walter Mattheu & Fred Flintstone. He didn't talk much so when he did you tended to listen. My wife's name is Kate but he called her Kay. When we first met, in the mid-1970s, I remember Ivan asking her about our relationship: "Now Kay, I always raised you to make the right decisions; now are you sure that you want to marry this guy?" There was something to his statement because, at that time, I didn't have two nickles to rub together and my prospects didn't look good.

The Classy Ivanka Trump joined Suzette Kent and Kelvin Droegemeier yesterday for the White House AI Summit. Ivanka Trump spoke about the need for American AI Leadership, development of AI workforce skills and Governmental wide AI initiatives. Lt. Gen Jack Shanahan spoke about the Department of Defense's Joint AI Center. "2020 is the year of AI for the department of defense, yet we have a long way to go" said Shanahan. The need to understand what AI is, and the threats the U.S faces from China's AI Weaponization goals are increasing day by day.

We live in an age of increasing centralization that pervades all aspects of our culture. In today's world, centralization equates to control; centralization equates to power. Centralization gave rise to bureaucratic institutions where decisions, borne by a few, ran through a hierarchical structure. This ensured a system where one authority determined how systems were run and how objectives were met. This is symbolic of how authoritarian governments operate.

National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) under the Government of India has released a tender asking for bidders to help create Automated Facial Recognition System (AFRS). The objective is to leverage the power of facial recognition technology to make the security forces more efficient. The technology system which has been proposed will make an extensive database of photos belonging to Indian citizens using which machine learning models will be trained. The criminals will be identified using CCTV footage from the database, verified, and information will be distributed to all law enforcement agencies in real-time across the country. Experts have touted that using facial recognition technology to identify and solve crime may be one of the best applications of the technology.

Artificial intelligence sparks images of thinking robots doing things without human intervention. While that is part of its promise, reality is much more complex. Join me as I explore the intricacies of ethics, technology, policy and politics with three experts on this somewhat arcane but strategically crucial subject. This interview offers something close to a master class in AI, exploring why the US is not likely to use autonomous robots to kill the enemy, why Congress must come to grips with the many challenges AI raises, how the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency and the Intelligence Community are grappling with the unique issues of classification, fast access to data and the need for global access across the force, how companies like Booz Allen Hamilton are managing the data they need to train AIs and much more. The one thing Boris Johnson and his DUDE -- Deliver, Unite, Defeat, Energize -- partisans have in common with their opponents is that they all want to see a quick end to a process that has paralyzed the debate about Europe's future and created a climate of instability which only NATO's foes can find suitable.

Researchers from Brown University and Intel Corp. are working together to develop new artificial intelligence-based technologies aimed at helping victims of spinal injuries walk again. When someone suffers an injury to the spinal cord, the electrical signals from the brain can no longer pass to the muscles, which leads to paralysis. Such injuries are devastating because the human body cannot regenerate severed nerve fibers by itself. But medical professionals believe that AI technologies could help some victims to regain control of their muscles. Now, backed by a $6.3 million grant from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the researchers from Brown University and Intel are embarking on a two-year effort to create those technologies.

A branch of machine learning called deep learning has helped computers surpass humans at well-defined visual tasks like reading medical scans, but as the technology expands into interpreting videos and real-world events, the models are getting larger and more computationally intensive. By one estimate, training a video-recognition model can take up to 50 times more data and eight times more processing power than training an image-classification model. That's a problem as demand for processing power to train deep learning models continues to rise exponentially and concerns about AI's massive carbon footprint grow. Running large video-recognition models on low-power mobile devices, where many AI applications are heading, also remains a challenge. Song Han, an assistant professor at MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), is tackling the problem by designing more efficient deep learning models.

Casepoint was selected over a number of other e-discovery technology solutions after undergoing a rigorous multi-step evaluation process. The SEC's evaluation factors included assessing software features and functionality, cybersecurity, management and key personnel, past performance, and a competitive proof of concept process. The SEC receives approximately 3,500 new productions, totaling nearly 10TB after processing, each month. The SEC's existing e-discovery systems contain almost 1PB of data across 7,300 cases and must support 600 users in its Washington, D.C. headquarters and 1,200 additional users across its 11 regional offices nationwide. It was imperative that the SEC chose an enterprise-scale solution that is fast, powerful, and easy-to-use.

You might not be aware of it, but there's a quiet arms race going on over our collective reality. The fight is between those who want to subvert it and usher in a world where we no longer believe what we see on our screens and those who want to help preserve the status quo. Up until this point in time, we have largely trusted our eyes and ears when consuming audio and visual media content, but new technological systems that create something known as deepfakes, are changing that. And as these deepfake videos nudge into the mainstream, experts are increasingly worried about the ramifications it will have on the information sharing that underpins society. Dr Richard Nock is the head of machine learning at CSIRO's Data 61 and understands the daunting potential of the technology that powers deepfake videos.