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Augmented Artificial Intelligence

for Social good, Data & AI Ethics highlighted

at ASEI’s 2021 AI Summit

NEERAJ DHAR
North America - Bureau Chief

n April 24th, the American Soci-
ety of Engineers of Indian Origin
O(ASEI) convened an AI Summit
with a number of researchers, authors,
speakers and experts covering Artificial
Intelligence from multiple perspectives:
Augmented Intelligence with Data, AI/ML
Solutions for social benefit and Artificial
Intelligence Applications for the enter-
prise & AI Ethics
Opening the summit, Divya Ashok,
who serves as VP of Innovation and Strat-
egy at Salesforce, introduced the AI Sum-
mit Chair Piyush Malik who has been
working in the Data & AI domain for over
25 years, currently as the Senior Vice Pres- ASEI leadership was complemented by how to think, thrive, and transform in an
ident at SpringML, a Google partner start- the next speaker Dr Sundar Sundaresh- AI driven future.
up in Silicon Valley. Piyush gave a bird’s waran, AI Fellow at the World Economic “AI will present a lot of opportunities
eye view of the AI landscape, the real life Forum (WEF) where PJMF is a supporter. in the future. Sure, some jobs will be re-
and enterprise application opportunities placed, but each of us can leverage our
as well as set the stage for the plenary seg- At WEF, Dr Sundar is co-creating knowledge, passion, and experience to
ment where the theme was AI for Society. a governance framework with a position ourselves at the forefront of this
He recognized the contributions of AI cognitive revolution” - Dr Raj Ramesh at
pioneer technologists and Turing awardees multi-stakeholder community for the ASEI AI Summit
over the past 7 decades including Prof Raj the use of Chatbots in healthcare The next speaker Ashish Bansal with
Reddy, the first Asian and the only Indian his cool demeanor brought to light an ex-
origin person to have won the Nobel prize amongst other initiatives which he ample of how rubber meets the road in AI
of computing (i.e., Turing Award for AI) talked about in detail having an im- though Models in Natural Language Pro-
in 1994 long before the current euphoria cessing. NLP is a topic of increasing atten-
over AI was commonplace. pact in the COVID era. tion given the recent popularity of Open
Vilas Dhar, President and Trustee AI’s GPT3 model and discussions of “AI
of the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation In the next section of the summit three creating AI”.
(PJMF), gave a message of support from authors spoke about their respective work Final section of the AI Summit was the
PJMF to ASEI as we work towards our and the impact each of them is having in “Women in Data & AI” segment facilitat-
shared vision for AI - powered yet hu- the field of AI. ed by Vatsala Upadhya and featured a live-
man-centric ethical endeavor for the ben- ASEI Michigan chapter president ly and colorful “Ethics in AI” discussion
efit of society as we explore the future of Muthu Sivanantham introduced and facil- between Dr Sindhu Joseph, CEO of Cog-
meaningful work through youth empower- itated discussion with the next two speak- nicor with 6 Patents in AI, and Bala Sahe-
ment. PJMF is a 21st century philanthropy ers. Dr Raj Ramesh, a TEDx speaker who jpal, SVP at DataRobot with Piyanka Jain,
advancing artificial intelligence (AI) and happens to have a doctorate in AI was the President and CEO of Aryng moderating.
data solutions to create a thriving, equita- next author to speak. He has broad experi- The interactive Q&A sessions and chat
ble, and sustainable future for all. Vilas, a ence with digital transformation and helps texts continued to buzz throughout the
biomedical engineer by initial training is organizations bring together complemen- nearly four hour conference with an en-
an entrepreneur, technologist, and human tary strengths of machines and humans to gaged audience. The most interesting au-
rights advocate with a lifelong commitment effect grand change. His talk featuring in- dience questions and some early bird par-
to creating more robust, human-centered teresting doodles and interactive audience ticipants won 10 books courtesy the three
social institutions. His message of support participation surveys was patterned on his authors and publishers. Proposing the vote
for AI for social benefit and data philan- recent book, “AI & You” and he advised of thanks, Raju Sreewastava, CEO of Big
thropy fostered through interactions with how to co-exist with machines by sharing Data Trunk announced the list of winners.

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