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The Sixth CIIE is ready to welcome the world

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Friday, November 3, 2023
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Some 1,500 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) will also be showcasing their products at the event.

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  • Some 1,500 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) will also be showcasing their products at the event.
  • As an integral part of the CIIE, this year's Hongqiao International Economic Forum will focus on global openness, green development, digital economy and smart technologies.
  • Authoritative reports, including the World Openness Report 2023, will also be released during the forum.
  • Join us and reap your benefits at CIIE 2023 & CIIE 2024 where opportunities await!

OriginTrail’s 1st DKG Conference brings together Internet, Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain pioneers to harness trusted AI across industries

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Friday, October 13, 2023
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They also discussed how these technologies will impact the economy and society in general in relation to AI.

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  • They also discussed how these technologies will impact the economy and society in general in relation to AI.
  • The forefront of the conference was the open-source OriginTrail Decentralized Knowledge Graph (DKG) that has Trace Labs as core developers.
  • New solution based on OriginTrail and GS1 Digital Link - users are chatting with a product in a trusted manner.
  • The topics discussed at the conference and the event itself garnered significant interest, even from the Slovenian media .

The World Science Festival Announces Science in September

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Monday, August 21, 2023
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NEW YORK, Aug. 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The World Science Festival, the premier gathering bringing cutting-edge science to public audiences, has unveiled its first live events in New York City since the pandemic, an extended weekend of programming moderated by the Festival's Co-Founder, renowned Columbia University physicist and author, Brian Greene, exploring cosmology, quantum reality, black holes, string theory, unification, and artificial intelligence, comprising a kickoff for the Festival's planned yearlong series of live and digital offerings.

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  • Tracy Day, four-time National Emmy Award Winning journalist, who is the Co-Founder and CEO of the World Science Festival, drives the Festival's creative content with a prime focus on threading deep scientific insights through smart, entertaining, and richly visual programs.
  • "We are thrilled to invite New Yorkers to engage with world-leading thinkers in explorations of mind, matter and the cosmos—the first of our Festival events that we will offer throughout the coming year."
  • Participants include Nobel Prize winner David Gross, Breakthrough Prize winners Andrew Strominger and Cumrun Vafa, and Fields Medalist Edward Witten.
  • Standing on the Shoulders of Giants featuring Nobel Laureate and long-time lead scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope, John Mather.

Countdown Begins: 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference: Intelligent Connectivity, Generating Future

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Tuesday, June 13, 2023
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Shanghai, China, June 13, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC), organized by Donghao Lansheng(Group)Co. Ltd. from July 6th to 8th, 2023, is set to inaugurate with the insightful theme: 'Intelligent Connectivity: Generating the Future', aiming to explore the development of general artificial intelligence and embrace the values of AI4Good.

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  • Shanghai, China, June 13, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC), organized by Donghao Lansheng(Group)Co. Ltd. from July 6th to 8th, 2023, is set to inaugurate with the insightful theme: 'Intelligent Connectivity: Generating the Future', aiming to explore the development of general artificial intelligence and embrace the values of AI4Good.
  • These provide comprehensive coverage of cutting-edge technologies such as large-scale models and generative artificial intelligence.
  • Two themed exhibition areas have been introduced: the "Artificial Intelligence Industry Innovation Achievement Exhibition" and the "Journey towards General Artificial Intelligence" exhibition.
  • The 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference is about to begin.

Peking University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong Triumph at 10th ASC Finals, Claiming Top Prizes

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Thursday, May 18, 2023
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The 10th ASC Student Supercomputer Challenge (ASC) Finals recently concluded at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in Hefei.

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  • The 10th ASC Student Supercomputer Challenge (ASC) Finals recently concluded at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in Hefei.
  • In the virtual competition, the team from the Chinese University of Hong Kong emerged as the champion, while the teams from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, National Tsing Hua University, and Kasetsart University were recognized with the Application Innovation Award.
  • Over 300 teams from universities worldwide participated in the 10th ASC Student Supercomputer Challenge.
  • A collaborative effort by the Southern University of Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Qilu University of Technology, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong resulted in efficient optimization of random quantum circuit sampling simulation.

AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton says AI is a new form of intelligence unlike our own. Have we been getting it wrong this whole time?

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Thursday, May 4, 2023
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Indeed, one of the most widely pronounced fears is that AI may achieve human-like intelligence and render humans obsolete in the process.

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  • Indeed, one of the most widely pronounced fears is that AI may achieve human-like intelligence and render humans obsolete in the process.
  • However, one of the world’s top AI scientists is now describing AI as a new form of intelligence – one that poses unique risks, and will therefore require unique solutions.
  • Geoffrey Hinton, a leading AI scientist and winner of the 2018 Turing Award, just stepped down from his role at Google to warn the world about the dangers of AI.

Why Hinton’s ideas matter

    • Dubbed the “godfather of AI”, he has helped pioneer many of the methods underlying the modern AI systems we see today.
    • His early work on neural networks led to him being one of three individuals awarded the 2018 Turing Award.

The false equivalence trap

    • ChatGPT even makes stuff up, or “hallucinates”, which Hinton points out is something humans do as well.
    • But we risk being reductive when we consider such similarities a basis for comparing AI intelligence with human intelligence.
    • For thousands of years, humans tried to fly by imitating birds: flapping their arms with some contraption mimicking feathers.
    • Eventually, we realised fixed wings create uplift, using a different principle, and this heralded the invention of flight.

How is AI intelligence unique?

    • Both AI experts and non-experts have long drawn a link between AI and human intelligence – not to mention the tendency to anthropomorphise AI.
    • But AI is fundamentally different to us in several ways.
    • AI outperforms humans on many tasks, including any task that relies on assembling patterns and information gleaned from large datasets.
    • Humans are also very energy-efficient, whereas AI requires powerful computers (especially for learning) that use orders of magnitude more energy than us.

Okay, so what if AI is different to us?

    • If AI is fundamentally a different intelligence to ours, then it follows that we can’t (or shouldn’t) compare it to ourselves.
    • A new intelligence presents new dangers to society and will require a paradigm shift in the way we talk about and manage AI systems.
    • In particular, we may need to reassess the way we think about guarding against the risks of AI.

What risks are we facing?

    • We’ll need to adapt how we manage AI as it becomes increasingly deployed for tasks once completed by humans.
    • More worryingly, AI’s ability to generate fake text, images and video is leading us into a new age of information manipulation.
    • Olivier Salvado works for CSIRO and lead AI for CSIRO Missions, which receives funding from The Australian Commonwealth and funding bodies.

SparkCognition Research Fellow and Advisor Bob Metcalfe, Co-Inventor of Ethernet Technology, Wins Turing Award

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Thursday, March 23, 2023
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The $1M Turing Award, presented by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), is recognized as the highest distinction in computer science.

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  • The $1M Turing Award, presented by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), is recognized as the highest distinction in computer science.
  • Often referred to as the "Nobel Prize of Computing," the award is named for Alan M. Turing, the British mathematician and computer scientist who invented the core concepts of theoretical computer science.
  • He joined SparkCognition as a Research Fellow and Advisor in 2019.
  • The Turing Award has only been presented 54 times since 1966 to individuals whose work has outstanding significance for computer science.

Hopara launches on SingleStore

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Wednesday, February 1, 2023
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Hopara, Inc., the Cambridge, MA startup founded by 2014 Turing Prize winner and MIT CSAIL Professor Mike Stonebraker, announces its launch on SingleStore Connect. This new capability will allow any SingleStore customer to link their database to a Hopara App for improved business results.

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  • CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Hopara, Inc., the Cambridge, MA startup founded by 2014 Turing Prize winner and MIT CSAIL Professor Mike Stonebraker, announces its launch on SingleStore Connect.
  • This new capability will allow any SingleStore customer to link their database to a Hopara App for improved business results.
  • Also the creator of Postgres and numerous startups such as Vertica and Tamr, Hopara represents the latest evolution of Prof Stonebrakers research and life's work.
  • "We are excited to welcome Hopara to SingleStore Connect.

China's Dishui Lake - World's Financial Bay

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Thursday, December 8, 2022
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SHANGHAI, Dec. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On December 8, the Dishui Lake Emerging Finance Conference, themed Financial Innovation and Openness in China's New March to Modernization, took place at the permanent venue for the World Laureates Forum, located on the shore of Dishui Lake in the China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone Lin-gang Special Area. The event highlighted the area's strengths in artificial intelligence, integrated circuits, intelligent electric vehicles, high-end equipment manufacturing, and other cutting-edge sci-tech industries, and invited leaders from government and financial regulatory authorities, as well as industry experts and leaders. The event reinforces the area's tagline "China's Dishui Lake - World's Financial Bay", with discussions on finance, technology and openness.

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  • SHANGHAI, Dec. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --On December 8, the Dishui Lake Emerging Finance Conference, themed Financial Innovation and Openness in China's New March to Modernization, took place at the permanent venue for the World Laureates Forum, locatedon the shore of Dishui Lake in the China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone Lin-gang Special Area.
  • The eventreinforcesthe area's tagline"China's Dishui Lake - World's Financial Bay", with discussions on finance, technology and openness.
  • To this end, new and emerging financial modelswill provide a powerful solution for the zone's efforts in seeking new areas forindustrial growth and creating a new ecosystemfor financial services.
  • The financial center of the future is taking shape, withDishui Lake Financial Bay well on its way to becoming aworld-class financial hub at the forefront offinancial opening, promotingvalue innovation and paving the way forthe next generation of new and emerging industries.

MAPay to Create First 100 Million NFTs for Digital Health Records on the Algorand Blockchain

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Wednesday, December 7, 2022
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VOORHEES, N.J. and MUMBAI, India, Dec. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MAPay, a global healthcare technology firm with a focus on decentralized payment networks, unveiled its partnership with the Ministry of Public Health and Family Welfare in the Government of Maharashtra, India, to provide NFT technology that will store personal health data on the blockchain for the first time. Built on Algorand, the first deployment will introduce upwards of 100 million NFTs for this purpose.

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  • Built on Algorand, the first deployment will introduce upwards of 100 million NFTs for this purpose.
  • With key healthcare partnerships in the U.S. and beyond, MAPay will use the Algorand blockchain as the backbone for future advancements in the sector.
  • In collaboration with leading organizations focused on advancing interoperability and payments in healthcare, MAPay seeks to implement a patient-driven data exchange that aids in population health management and better overall outcomes.
  • "As a clinician and a participant in shaping public health policy, I recognize the need for reliable integration and storage of clinical health records.