It's high time for government officials to get up to speed on the promise and potential pitfalls of artificial intelligence, two U.S. senators leading the charge said today. "I think we're entering an age where artificial intelligence is going to provide great benefits," Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., said during an AI conference presented in Washington, D.C., as part of The Washington Post's Transformers program. Cantwell compared the state of the AI field to the state of the internet or the drone industry during the early days, when policymakers weren't completely sure how those technologies were going to be used. Sen. Todd Young, R-Ind., acknowledged that members of Congress aren't sufficiently equipped to deal with all of the issues raised by AI. "I like a measure of humility from our legislators," he said. To remedy that gap, Cantwell and Young are among the sponsors of a bill known as the FUTURE of AI Act.

Machine learning is increasingly being employed as a tool to help companies collect billions of data points, boil them down to what is actually meaningful, and predict what is likely to happen in the future. Simply stated... Machine learning helps make data-driven decisions. Machine learning offers practical solutions that can maximize resource utilization, prolong the lifespan of IoT sensors, platforms and networks, and enables dynamic services architecture. Our connected world is increasingly dependent on big data -- at rest, and in years to come, streaming fast data -- in motion." With real-time predictive models, once a streaming fast data point has been observed it might never be seen again.

SINGAPORE: At a time when radicalism is on the rise and people are concerned that their city might join the list of those tainted by terror, safety and security are topmost on the minds of government customers, Hewlett Packard Enterprise told Channel NewsAsia. The US-based IT giant is thus hoping to tackle these issues with a tool to help governments better make sense of the huge amounts of information being shared online by citizens, in the form of a Citizen Insights Dashboard. The tool, which is currently in beta, will be showcased for the first time at the World Cities Summit (WCS) held in Singapore from Sunday (Jul 10). It was developed in the city-state since April by a team led by Mr Jason Tan, director of HSE Insights Lab Singapore spearheading the project. More than just surveillance for security, the dashboard looks to make sense of posts made by citizens on social media to understand their thoughts and what they care about.