We routinely perform procedures (such as cooking) that include a set of atomic steps. Often, inadvertent omission or misordering of a single step can lead to serious consequences, especially for those experiencing cognitive challenges such as dementia. This paper introduces PrISM-Observer, a smartwatch-based, context-aware, real-time intervention system designed to support daily tasks by preventing errors. Unlike traditional systems that require users to seek out information, the agent observes user actions and intervenes proactively. This capability is enabled by the agent's ability to continuously update its belief in the user's behavior in real-time through multimodal sensing and forecast optimal intervention moments and methods. We first validated the steps-tracking performance of our framework through evaluations across three datasets with different complexities. Then, we implemented a real-time agent system using a smartwatch and conducted a user study in a cooking task scenario. The system generated helpful interventions, and we gained positive feedback from the participants. The general applicability of PrISM-Observer to daily tasks promises broad applications, for instance, including support for users requiring more involved interventions, such as people with dementia or post-surgical patients.

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Scientists have developed a robot that can make sure groups of people are abiding by social distancing rules when they are indoors. Researchers at the University of Maryland built a machine that uses CCTV cameras and thermal imaging to determine if people are staying six feet apart, and if someone in a group is potentially sick. The cameras monitor crowds, and will be able to detect when two individuals have been near each other long enough to trigger a break in protocols, and potentially inform them. The team hopes that this type of surveillance will help health officials with contact tracing and assist organizers of some indoor events with controlling crowds and ensuring compliance. A Maryland team created a robot that uses CCTV cameras to detect when people are breaching Covid social distancing protocols.

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The internet of things (IoT) can help prevent crime and ensure public safety. The need for gathering and processing large volumes of data makes the application of IoT in the public sector highly impactful. Governments have the responsibility of ensuring the health, safety, and prosperity of large populations, with the help of an incredibly small supply of personnel. This makes the use of IoT in enabling government functions obvious. Using IoT in the government sector can ensure the smooth functioning of routine activities and focus on long-term, demanding projects.

Life as depicted in George Orwell's 1984 "could come to pass in 2024" if lawmakers don't protect the public against artificial intelligence, Microsoft's president has warned…. "If we don't enact the laws that will protect the public in the future, we are going to find the technology racing ahead, and it's going to be very difficult to catch up," Mr Smith said. "I'm constantly reminded of George Orwell's lessons in his book 1984. You know the fundamental story…was about a government who could see everything that everyone did and hear everything that everyone said all the time. "Well, that didn't come to pass in 1984, but if we're not careful that could come to pass in 2024." In certain parts of the world, reality is increasingly catching up with that view of science fiction, he added…. Eric Schmidt, former Google chief executive who is now chair of the US National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, has warned that beating China in AI is imperative. "We're in a geo-political strategic conflict with China," he said. "The way to win is to marshal our resources together to have national and global strategies for the democracies to win in AI. "If we don't, we'll be looking at a future where other values will be imposed on us."

Facebook will not notify the more than half a billion people caught up in a huge leak of personal information, it has said. Over the weekend, it emerged that a vast trove of data on more than 530 million users – containing information including their phone numbers and dates of birth – was being made freely available online. Facebook said that the data was gathered before 2019. It later said that " "malicious actors" had obtained the data prior to September 2019 by "scraping" profiles using a vulnerability in the platform's tool for synching contacts, and that the loophole that allowed them to do so had now been closed. But it said that it did not inform users when the leak happened, and does not have plans to do so now.

Over the past few years, terrorist attacks have been throwing challenging dimensions to global security. Even though when international communities and nations across the world are trying to put an end to it, malicious groups still find a way out. However, emerging AI technologies make their part of the contribution to combat terrorism. Extremism has drastically increased in recent years. Terrorists from across the borders entering India are often exploiting weaknesses in border infrastructure.

WE are living in an era where time is running fast, not by means of the clocks or watches we wear but the speed with which development and technological advancement is taking place. World is trying to achieve the goal of complete usage of Artificial intelligence by means of Computers and other IT gadgets. In many parts of the world and in India as well, the AI is one of the main priorities and is being scheduled to be implemented in every sector of living like the Medical sector, Defense, Education and other businesses and organizations. Artificial intelligence (AI) has received increased attention in recent years. Innovation, made possible through the Internet, has brought AI closer to our everyday lives.

StoryFile offers a somewhat unique service that seems poised to look like something out of Black Mirror. The company – a relative newcomer – helps people to record themselves telling their stories, then presents those stories in an interactive, voice-activated interface. Users can ask the digital storytellers questions, which are interpreted by the StoryFile app and answered with snippets from their recorded stories. Now, StoryFile is announcing that it has acquired a new portfolio of patents covering the use of AI in creating "artificially intelligent interactive memories." StoryFile began with a greenscreen studio and select guests, including Nobel laureates, astronauts, Holocaust survivors, and many others.