Last year the annual artificial intelligence conference NeurIPS invited 230 researchers from Africa to attend a "Black in AI" workshop in Montreal. It was a great opportunity to bring some diversity to the field of AI. Sadly, however, the Canadian government denied visas for about a third of the Africans invited to the workshop. Many others were unable to attend because the Canadian government took too long to process their visas. The Partnership on AI--a group founded by Amazon, Facebook, Google's DeepMind subsidiary, Microsoft, and IBM--contends that these sorts of visa issues are a threat to the development of AI.

Ursula von der Leyen, the incoming president of the EU's powerful executive arm, promoted Vestager to a commission executive vice-president overseeing the EU's digital innovation and leadership efforts, including artificial intelligence. "Margarethe Vestager will coordinate the whole agenda and be the commissioner for competition," von der Leyen said at a press conference . Von der Leyen has said that by the end of her first 100 days in office, she wants to draw up legislation for a European approach on the "human and ethical implications" of artificial intelligence. The Computer & Communications Industry Association, a lobby group with members including Google, Facebook and Amazon, reacted cautiously to Vestager's reappointment. "We encourage the new Commissioners to assess the impact of all the recent EU tech regulation to ensure that future legislation will be evidence-based, proportionate and beneficial," it said in a statement.

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We may have some potentially bad news for players anticipating AI: The Somnium Files, as Spike Chunsoft has recently announced that physical copies for the game have been delayed. In a near-future Tokyo, detective Kaname Date is on the case of a mysterious serial killer. Date must investigate crime scenes as well as dreams on the hunt for clues. AI: The Somnium Files will be available for the PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, and Steam on the 17th of September. This post was submitted by a volunteer contributor who has agreed to our Code of Conduct.

The legal value of XAI can be significant, especially (though by no means exclusively) in mitigating developer and end-user liability.¹ Though it is somewhat early to presume that the perfect information model introduced in The Role of Explainable AI (XAI) in Regulating AI Behavior: Delivery of "Perfect Information"can be viewed as a mature standard, the model does possess the necessary proto qualities and can be reasonably viewed as a proto standard. Therefore, a properly developed XAI is one that possesses, at a minimum, all the attributes of perfect information. And once that parameter is fixed, the XAI is deemed properly developed and ready to provide a variety of risk mitigation benefits. One example of how this can work is in dispositive-centric efforts, including in crafting safe harbors.

The emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a topical subject and one which is now part of our everyday lives. The possibilities offered by AI technology are immeasurable, but with this also come challenges, in particular with Intellectual Property (IP) rights. In a new series entitled'Tech Trends', the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) have released a report which examines the trends of AI over the last number of years and how the intellectual property landscape can learn and adjust to the constant evolution of AI. You can find this report here if you would like to know more. In previous articles we have seen how AI is driving developments in both technology and business, its rapid growth has revolutionised many aspects of our lives from how we work, travel and communicate.

Ethics in machine learning are what comes to mind when we imagine a worst case scenario in the context of artificial intelligence. As an example, we can think of HAL 9000 from '2001: A Space Odyssey' and Skynet from the'Terminator' films or more recently Ultron from the'Avengers'. Sadly, the main thinking behind most of the depicted self aware artificial intelligences is that they become sentient with the sole purpose of destroying the human race to ensure its survival. While such a scenario is not impossible or thankfully a ways off from this type of dystopian future. There are however pressing ethical matters in AI that we need to be considering right now.

Informatica, the enterprise cloud data management leader, today announced it is investing in GreenBay Technologies, a data management startup focused on AI and machine learning, to develop AI innovations that strengthen the impact of Informatica's AI-powered CLAIRE engine across its Intelligent Data Platform . GreenBay Technologies has ties to the University of Wisconsin (UW) at Madison and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), one of the oldest and most successful technology transfer offices in the nation focused on advancing transformative discoveries to the marketplace. GreenBay Technologies develops products that use machine learning and big data technologies to automate complex data management tasks such as entity and schema matching. The company was co-founded by Dr. AnHai Doan, UW's Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor, who oversees multiple data management research projects at the university's department of computer science. Doan and the staff of Ph.D. students will collaborate with Informatica's R&D team to enhance Informatica's CLAIRE engine and power industry-leading data management solutions.

Our attention has been drawn to the fraudulent recruitment activities by individuals posing as ABC Consultants or Employees of ABC Consultants, trying to trick candidates to part with large sums of money by promising them job offers. These individuals are also wrongfully using the company's registered trademark as well as using fake and copied website to legitimise their activities to lure innocent candidates to fall into this trap. ABC Consultants does not charge any fee at any stage of its recruitment process from the candidate. We would like to categorically state that these communications are purely made with the intent to defraud the candidates. The company has not authorised any individual to acquire any kind of payment from candidates, towards our company or towards any individual in the recruitment process.