The Deep Learning Indaba 2024 was not just another event for us--it was a reunion. For AfriClimate AI, the Indaba represents our birthplace. It was at the Indaba 2023 in Accra, Ghana, that a pivotal conversation ignited a movement, sparking the creation of AfriClimate AI. "Last year, I was invited to give a talk about my work on Uncertainty, AI, and Climate Science at the Deep Learning Indaba in Accra, Ghana. As is usual with invited talks, one tends to focus on the successful parts of the work. But for some reason, that morning, I decided to add a slide about the challenges of working in AI and sustainability in Africa, primarily driven by the pervasive data scarcity issues. It turned out that almost everyone in the room identified with these issues. This was the birthplace of AfriClimate AI, a grassroots research community dedicated to tackling these issues head-on through capacity building, open datasets, representative benchmarks, and state-of-the-art weather forecasting models for Africa."

Elon Musk is set to roll out the first model of his AI-powered system, xAI, on Saturday, one day after he proclaimed the tech is the biggest risk to humanity. The billionaire said Friday that he is opening up early access to a select group, but details of who has not been shared. 'In some important respects, it (xAI's new model) is the best that currently exists,' the Tesla CEO said on Friday. Musk, who has been critical of Big Tech's AI efforts and censorship, said earlier this year that he would launch a maximum truth-seeking AI that tries to understand the nature of the universe to rival Google's Bard and Microsoft's Bing AI. Elon Musk is set to roll out the first model of his AI-powered system, xAI, on Saturday, which he claims could help avoid humanity's destruction at the hands of the tech Musk revealed his startup on July 12, 2023 by launching a dedicated X account for the AI company and spares website.

Elon Musk has officially joined the AI race with the launch of a new company named xAI - after years of claiming the tech will be the demise of humanity. The Twitter boss has not shared many details but revealed xAI was designed'to understand the true nature of the universe.' The xAI team includes members who previously worked at DeepMind, OpenAI, Google Research, Microsoft Research and Tesla. The company's sparse website notes include that more information will be shared in a live Twitter Space on Friday. Elon Musk announced Wednesday a new AI company he calls xAI.

The events of the past year have left different marks on everyone's lives. For some of us in Texas, these marks are especially deep. We have not only experienced the heartache of the COVID-19 pandemic but also the worst winter storm in almost a century. To say the least, the 2020–21 academic year was a very memorable one for all of us. Both the pandemic and big freeze -- and its subsequent statewide power and water outages -- disrupted our lives, but we adapted, both on and off campus.

SAN FRANCISCO - December 3, 2020 -- Today, MLCommons, an open engineering consortium, launches its industry-academic partnership to accelerate machine learning innovation and broaden access to this critical technology for the public good. The non-profit organization initially formed as MLPerf, now boasts a founding board that includes representatives from Alibaba, Facebook AI, Google, Intel, and NVIDIA, as well as Professor Vijay Janapa Reddi of Harvard University; and a broad range of more than 50 founding members. The founding membership includes over 15 startups and small companies that focus on semiconductors, systems, and software from across the globe, as well as researchers from universities such as U.C. Berkeley, Stanford, and the University of Toronto. MLCommons will advance development of, and access to, the latest AI and Machine Learning datasets and models, best practices, benchmarks and metrics. An intent is to enable access to machine learning solutions such as computer vision, natural language processing, and speech recognition by as many people, as fast as possible.

MLCommons, an open engineering consortium, launches its industry-academic partnership to accelerate machine learning innovation and broaden access to this critical technology for the public good. The non-profit organization initially formed as MLPerf, now boasts a founding board that includes representatives from Alibaba, Facebook AI, Google, Intel, NVIDIA and Professor Vijay Janapa Reddi of Harvard University; and a broad range of more than 50 founding members. The founding membership includes over 15 startups and small companies that focus on semiconductors, systems, and software from across the globe, as well as researchers from universities like U.C. Berkeley, Stanford, and the University of Toronto. MLCommons will advance development of, and access to, the latest AI and Machine Learning datasets and models, best practices, benchmarks and metrics. An intent is to enable access to machine learning solutions such as computer vision, natural language processing, and speech recognition by as many people, as fast as possible.

Founded by Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia, the DCO is to be driven by a vision to realize a digital future for all by empowering women, youth, and entrepreneurs, growing the digital economy, and leapfrogging with innovation. "We are joining hands together towards a commitment to drive consensus on digital cooperation to make sure that we seize an opportunity for our youth, our women and our entrepreneurs with the ambition to grow our combined digital economy to one trillion dollars in the next 3-5 years," said Abdullah Amer Al-Swaha, Saudi Arabia's Minister of Communications and Information Technology. "Our future prosperity will depend on the digital economy. But it can only reach its full potential if we are able to make governments work together collectively with businesses, and entrepreneurs so they can survive and thrive, expand their depth into current markets, and open doors for everyone into new ones." The launch of the DCO follows the conclusion of Saudi Arabia's G20 Presidency to maintain the Kingdom's momentum on accelerating the growth of the digital economy across the region and the globe, as nations everywhere increase their adoption of remote learning, telemedicine, and contact-less economic systems to survive and thrive beyond the social and economic impact of COVID-19.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS WEBINAR WILL START ON WEDNESDAY, 16 SEPTEMBER, 2020, AT 6:30 PM ***BST (LONDON TIME)*** (1.30 PM ***EDT (NEW YORK TIME)***) TITLE: Software Architecture for AI-intensive Systems ABSTRACT The problem at hand is partly the application of software engineering best practices to AI, but more so the evolution of software engineering to attend to software-intensive systems that contain AI components. BIOGRAPHIES Grady Booch is Chief Scientist for Software Engineering at IBM Research where he leads IBM's research and development for embodied cognition. Having originated the term and the practice of object-oriented design, he is best known for his work in advancing the fields of software engineering and software architecture. A co-author of the Unified Modeling Language (UML), a founding member of the Agile Alliance, and a founding member of the Hillside Group, Grady has published six books and several hundred technical articles, including an ongoing column for IEEE Software. Grady was also a trustee for the Computer History Museum.

BENGALURU: Microsoft India on Monday released new research revealing that organisations that combine deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) with skilling initiatives are generating most value from AI. Topline findings of the research underscore that mature AI firms are more confident about the return on AI and skills, a company statement said. Microsoft recently conducted the global survey with approximately 12,000 people working with enterprise companies (more than 250 employees). The research surveyed employees and leaders within large enterprises across industry verticals in India, and 19 other countries, to look at the skills needed to thrive as AI becomes increasingly adopted by businesses, as well as the key learnings from early AI adopters. Over 93 per cent of senior executives surveyed from these companies were sure their business was gaining value from AI. The research further highlights that employees from mature AI companies are eager to deepen their AI skills and reinvest freed up time to add value for the organisation.

India has now joined the league of leading economies including USA, UK, EU, Italy, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, South Korea, & Singapore to launch the Global Partnership on AI. Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) is the first of its kind initiative, aimed to guide responsible development and use of AI, grounded in human rights, inclusion, diversity, innovation, and economic growth. This is also the first initiative of its type for evolving a better understanding of the challenges and opportunities around Artificial Intelligence using the experience and diversity of participating countries. To embark on this goal, GPAI will look to close the gap between theory and practice on Artificial Intelligence by leveraging cutting-edge research and applied action on Artificial Intelligence-related objectives. "We, Australia, France, Canada, Italy, Germany, Mexico, India, Japan, the Republic of Korea, New Zealand, Slovenia, Singapore, the United States of America, the United Kingdom, and the European Union, have come together to build the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence."