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B.C. Information and Privacy Commissioner Michael McEvoy: There is much good that comes from advancing AI technologies but if the public is to haveconfidence in itsuse we must first ensure trust and transparency is built into its development" | Photo: Jeremy Hainsworth

Governments' increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) technology and peoples inability to avoid official computer services present threats politicians must address with law, privacy watchdogs say.Regulatory intervention is necessary, the B.C. and Yukon ombudsman and information and privacy commissioners said in a report released June 17.

The regulatory challenge is deciding how to adapt or modernize existing regulatory instruments to account for the new and emerging challenges brought on by governments use of AI. The increasing automation of government decision-making undermines the applicability or utility of existing regulations or common law rules that would otherwise apply to and sufficiently address those decisions.

Just as fairness and privacy issues resulting from the use of AI in commercial facial recognition systems have been shown to have bias and infringe peoples privacy rights, government use of AI can have serious, long-lasting impacts on peoples lives and could create tension with the fairness and privacy obligations of democratic institutions, the report said.

And that, they said, undermines trust in government.

While we recognize that delivering public services through artificially intelligent machine-based systems can be appealing to public bodies for cost reasons, we are concerned if not done right, this perceived efficiency may come at the expense of important rights to fair treatment, said B.C. Ombudsperson Jay Chalke.

The late Prof. John McCarthy of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University coined the term AI. The report said McCarthys definition frames AI in terms of the development of machines that can perform tasks normally requiring human intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition, language translation and decision-making. Its a capacity to respond to challenges and opportunities based on inputs and goals.

Whats happening, the officials said, is that AI is replacing the judgement of human decision-makers in governments around the world. Such computer judgments could include predicting criminals recidivism rates, approving building permits, determining government program eligibility and deciding car insurance premiums.

There is much good that comes from advancing AI technologies but if the public is to haveconfidence in itsuse we must first ensure trust and transparency is built into its development, said B.C. Information and Privacy Commissioner Michael McEvoy.

The report said global spending on AI was US$12.4 billion in 2019 and is expected to reach US$232 billion by 2025. As part of Canadas national AI strategy, Ottawa has invested $355 million to develop synergies between retail, manufacturing, infrastructure and information and communications technology sectors to build intelligent supply chains through AI and robotics.

However, another challenge comes from people themselves and a desire for fast service that could put highly personal and private data at risk.The report said Peter Tyndall, former president of the International Ombudsman Institute and the ombudsman of the Republic of Ireland, has argued one of the biggest challenges facing independent oversight offices and core government alike is peoples expectation of speedy results and high levels of interactivity.

They expect to interact with public services as they do with Amazon or Facebook, to communicate as they do on WhatsApp, Tyndall said.

Other concerns highlighted in the report include the challenge of explaining to the public how decisions are made if algorithms are used, a lack of notice provided to people that these systems will be used in decision-making that impacts them and the absence of effective appeals from AI-generated decisions.

When our offices reviewed how AI is being used, we saw there is a real gap in uniform guidance, regulation and oversight that governs the use of AI, said Ombudsman and Information and Privacy Commissioner for Yukon Diane McLeod-McKay. We are hopeful that public bodies will carefully consider the guidance we are providing when they are using AI.

The report makes several recommendations aimed at public bodies delivering public services including:

the need for public bodies to commit to guiding principles for AI use;

the need for public bodies to notify an individual when an AI system is used to make a decision about them and describe how the AI system operates in a way that is understandable to the individual;

the need for government to promote capacity-building, co-operation and public engagement on AI;

a requirement for all public bodies to complete and submit an artificial intelligence fairness and privacy impact assessment for all existing and future AI programs for review by the relevant oversight body; and

the establishment of special rules or restrictions for the use of highly sensitive information by AI.

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Artificial intelligence is still considered a long way from its feared destructive capabilities, but one thing is for certain: big things start from small beginnings. And that small beginning might as well be this.

(Photo : Andrea Verdelli/Getty Images)SHANGHAI, CHINA - JUNE 18: Cutting edge applications of Artificial Intelligence are seen on display at the Artificial Intelligence Pavilion of Zhangjiang Future Park during a state organized media tour on June 18, 2021 in Shanghai, China.

Engadgetreports that a certain artificial intelligence managed to somehow "create" its own version of "GTA V," and also make it actually playable--at least a short stretch of it, that is. And all they did was make the AI "watch" a portion of gameplay.

YouTuber Harrison Kinsley, who goes by the name sentdex on the video platform, shareda videoof artificial intelligence achieving the technically impressive feat. Working with a collaborator named Daniel Kukiela, Kinsley used a program called GameGAN Neural Network to create the simulation.

GameGAN, according toits website, is an artificial intelligence-based program created to simulate game environments on the fly. Made by the NVIDIA Toronto AI Lab (at least according to its Google Results Page heading), GameGAN has actually done the same exact thing last year, only with a different game: Pac-Man.

Before it managed to create its own playable version of "GTA V," GameGAN made its own version of Pac-Man by watching another AI play through it. According toEngadget, artificial intelligence managed to essentially "develop" an entire video game in merely four days. The real Pac-Man, on the other hand, took over a year to make.

This also isn't really the first time thatAI has dabbled in game visuals. NVIDIA's DLSS and so-called AI upscaling that's turned the graphics of "GTA V" into photorealistic images already exist.

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To achieve the feat, Kinsley needed some major help. No consumer-class computer would be able to deal with this kind of workload, so NVIDIA loaned him and his partner a $200,000 data center; essentially a small-scale supercomputer. This machine contained eight A100 GPUs, which are optimized for hardware-accelerated artificial intelligence, as well as two 64-core server CPUs from AMD.

(Photo : China/Barcroft Media via Getty Images)HANGZHOU, CHINA - JUNE 06 2021: Visitors stop by an AI server based on NVIDIA A100 chips at the 2021 Global Artificial Intelligence Technology Conference (GAITC2021) in Hangzhou in East China.

With the data center, Kinsley and Kukiela "trained" the GameGAN using actual gameplay of "GTA V." They let 12 simultaneous AI instances drive the same stretch of road, allowing the hardware to collect enough data to build its own world. The result was an amazing testament to the power of artificial intelligence, which is also a little bit freaky.

And the AI itself didn't just create an image that moved. It also rendered rudimentary 3D graphics in real-time. What this means is that as the car drove around, the shadow underneath it also moved relative to where the light source is. That's absolutely amazing since doing that convincingly inside a game engine would take years of hard coding. A machine managed to do that in barely a fraction of the time.

So does this mean that game developers will be replaced by artificial intelligence? No. Absolutely not. For now, AI can stick to doing things likebeating humans in DOTA 2, or being funnily dumb in broken, unfinished games.

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LONDON One of the world's biggest wealth managers doesn't think artificial intelligence can replace the role of financial advisors.

Ralph Hamers, the CEO of UBS, said Wednesday that technologies like AI were better suited to handling day-to-day functions like opening an account or executing trades than advising clients.

"There is no added value for client advisors to be engaged in a process like that," Hamers told CNBC's Geoff Cutmore at the virtual CNBC Evolve Global Summit. "They're advisors. They should advise."

"Our financial advisors actually should be supported by the technology," Hamers said, adding that AI could be used to make sense of the research and other data that advisors don't have time for.

"That is what artificial intelligence can do, because even our client advisors can't read all the research that is there," he said. "Our client advisors can't comprehend all the product options that are out there."

Europe's banking industry has seen radical change over the last decade, with new entrants like Monzo, Revolut and N26 emerging to take on incumbents with slick, digital-only services.

Covid-19 has further accelerated digital transformation in the banking sector, with many lenders racing to move away from their aging IT systems to cloud-based technology. Some are partnering with tech companies like Microsoft, Amazon and Google, as well as fintech upstarts, to hasten the process.

Hamers said UBS is looking to adopt a "Netflix experience" where clients have access to a "dashboard" of different research and products to choose from.

"That's where things are going, and that's where UBS is making the next step, in terms of dealing with technology to deliver a much better service for our clients," he added.

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Artificial Intelligence In Healthcare Market Size, Share & Trends Analysis Report By Component (Software Solutions, Hardware, Service), By Application (Robot Assisted Surgery, Connected Machines, Clinical Trials), And Segment Forecasts, 2021 - 2028

New York, June 18, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Reportlinker.com announces the release of the report "Artificial Intelligence In Healthcare Market Size, Share & Trends Analysis Report By Component, By Application And Segment Forecasts, 2021 - 2028" - https://www.reportlinker.com/p06096560/?utm_source=GNW

Artificial Intelligence In Healthcare Market Growth & Trends

The global artificial intelligence in healthcare market size is expected to reach USD 120.2 billion by 2028 and is expected to expand at a CAGR of 41.8% over the forecast period. Growing technological advancements coupled with an increasing need for efficient and innovative solutions to enhance clinical and operational outcomes is contributing to market growth. The pressure for cutting down spending is rising globally as the cost of healthcare is growing faster than the growth of economies. Advancements in healthcare IT present opportunities to cut down spending by improving care delivery and clinical outcomes. Thus, the demand for AI technologies is expected to increase in the coming years.

Moreover, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the introduction of technologically advanced products to improve patient care are factors anticipated to drive growth further in the coming years.The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is further driving the adoption of AI in various applications such as clinical trials, diagnosis, and virtual assistants to add value to health care by analyzing complicated medical images of patients complications and supporting clinicians in detection as well as diagnosis.

Moreover, an increase in the number of AI startups coupled with high investments by venture capitalist firms for developing innovative technologies that support fast and effective patient management, due to a significant increase in the number of patients suffering from chronic diseases, is driving the market.

In addition, the shortage of public health workforce has become a major concern in many countries around the world.This can mainly be attributed to the growing demand for physicians, which is higher than the supply of physicians.

As per the WHO estimates in 2019, the global shortage of skilled personnel including nurses, doctors, and other professionals was approximately 4.3 million. Thus, the shortage of a skilled workforce is contributing to the demand for artificial intelligence-enabled systems in the industry.

Artificial Intelligence In Healthcare Market Report Highlights The market is anticipated to witness significant growth over the forecast period owing to the rapidly increasing application of artificial intelligence in this space The software component segment dominated the market in 2020 owing to the increased development of AI-based software solutions The clinical trials segment dominated the market in 2020 owing to the easy commercial availability of AI-based product in clinical trial applications that use AI technology to identify patterns from doctor-patient interaction related data to deliver a personalized medicine North America dominated the market in 2020 owing to the growing adoption of healthcare IT solutions, increasing funding for the development of AI capabilities, and the well-established healthcare sectorRead the full report: https://www.reportlinker.com/p06096560/?utm_source=GNW

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A period that had been broadly described as engagement has come to an end, Kurt Campbell, the Indo-Pacific Coordinator at the United States (US) National Security Council, told a virtual audience in May on the subject of US-China relations. The dominant paradigm is going to be competition.

On several occasions, Campbell has highlighted that one of the major arenas of this competition will concern technology. This is increasingly reflected in US national security structures. Today, there is both a senior director and coordinator for technology and national security at the White House; the National Economic Council has briefed the Cabinet on supply chain resilience; and the focus of Department of Defense policy reviews have been on emerging military technologies.

The subject of intensifying technology competition is also making its way into new US avenues for cooperation with partners, including with India. This could take the form of bilateral cooperation, coordination at multilateral institutions, or through loose coalitions such as Quad. At the virtual summit in March of Quad, the four leaders (of India, Japan, Australia and the US) agreed, among other things, to establish a working group on critical and emerging technologies, which has already convened.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as one technology of particular importance because of its role as an accelerator, its versatility, and its wide applicability. Driven by recent breakthroughs in machine learning made possible by plentiful data, cheap computing power, and accessible algorithms, AI is a good bellwether for the possibilities and challenges of international cooperation on emerging technologies. It is also incredibly lucrative, and may generate hundreds of billions of dollars in revenue over the coming decade.

There are some obvious areas of commonality and cooperation between India, the US, and other partners when it comes to AI. For example, there is a similar concern about developing AI in a broadly democratic setting. AI can be used in many positive ways to foster innovation, increase efficiency, improve development, and enhance consumer experience. For India, AI deployment will be tied closely to inclusive growth and its development trajectory, with potentially positive implications for agriculture, health, and education, among other sectors.

But AI can also be used for a host of undesirable purposes generating misinformation, criminal activity, and encroaching upon personal privacy. Quad countries and others including in Europe and North America generally seek partners amenable to broadly upholding a responsible, human-centric approach to AI.

Additionally, despite the nominally more nationalistic rhetoric (e.g. Build Back Better, Atmanirbhar Bharat), there is a fundamental recognition that international partnerships are valuable and necessary. AI development and deployment is inherently international in character.

Basic and applied research involves collaborations across universities, research centres, and countries. Data can be gathered more easily, a lot of development relies on open-source information, and funding for AI start-ups is a global enterprise. There is also a recognition that countries can learn from each others experiences and mistakes, and that the successful deployment of AI would serve as a model for others. India, for example, is one of the few developing countries large enough to marshal considerable resources for AI, in a manner that could be replicated, including in South Asia or Africa.

India and its partners also confront some similar challenges when it comes to the development and deployment of AI. One imperative involves nurturing, attracting, and retaining the requisite talent. According to Macro Polos Global AI Talent Tracker, 12% of elite AI researchers in the world received their undergraduate degrees from India, the most after the United States (35%) and more than China (10%). Yet, very little top-tier AI research is being conducted in India (over 90% is taking place in the United States, China, European Union, Canada, and the UK).

Beyond talent, additional challenges lie in securing the necessary infrastructure; ensuring resilient supply chains, especially for components such as microprocessors; alignment on standards, governance, and procurement; and ensuring critical minerals and other raw materials required for the development of the necessary physical infrastructure.

Given that various governments have only recently established AI policies, and in some cases are still formulating them, international cooperation is still very much a work in progress. More detailed efforts will be outlined in the coming months and years.

Nevertheless, the contours of cooperation are already discernible. Some areas are proving relatively easy, such as coordination in the setting of standards at the multilateral level, which is already underway. Other areas will prove more challenging. Supply chain security and building resilience should theoretically be easier, given the political-level agreement on this issue. However, ensuring bureaucratic and regulatory harmonisation remains complicated. India and its partners may have the most trouble aligning their approaches to data a particularly touchy subject at the moment and, in the long-run, incentivising joint research and development.

The future looks bright for organic cooperation on AI the demand is there and India and its partners all hold relative strengths. But critical decisions made in the near future could have transformative effects for international cooperation on AI, which, in turn, could decisively shape the contours of what some have described as the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

Dhruva Jaishankar is executive director, ORF America

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