HSINCHU, August 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — With the support of the Industrial Development Bureau (IDB) under the Ministry of Economic Affairs, ITRI held the 2022 International Workshop on Trusted AI Online on August 2nd. More than 400 experts gathered at the first conference in Taiwan on this topic to discuss topics such as AI risk management and trustworthy AI systems.
Minister without Portfolio Audrey Tang hailed the seminar as a good start to promote the standardization of trustworthy AI and accelerate the development of digital technology in Taiwan. He noted that AI can be understood as assistive intelligence, rather than something that completely replaces humans. “It’s like the complementary relationship between the AI robot and the humans in Japanese manga. Doraemon,” she said. Taiwan is an important partner in the global supply chain, Tang noted, adding that in the ICT field, it has formed a strong ecosystem with the US supply chain. The establishment of a trustworthy AI framework, with its introduction in products and exports to the world, will create a new peak for from taiwan industry, while helping Taiwan move closer to its vision of Smart Taiwan 2030, which emphasizes innovation, inclusion and sustainability.
General Director of the IDB Jang Hwa Leu emphasized the importance of AI risk management or oversight. Taiwan intends to cooperate with national laboratories such as the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the US and the Laboratoire national de métrologie et d’essais (LNE) in France. This will link the relevant technical specifications or standards through Taiwan, the United States and the European Union. It will also help from taiwan AI products in compliance with common standards and requirements worldwide, which allows Taiwan to become a trusted international partner for AI, he stated.
ITRI Executive Vice President Pei-Zen Chang commented that the popularization of AI applications has sparked discussions on ethical issues, including data bias, privacy protection and security, system transparency and interpretability. For example, Portable Edge AI-DR, a technology for which ITRI won an Edison Award this year, uses AI analytics to identify disease location and severity in just three seconds, helping clinicians achieve a quick diagnosis. If this data can be provided and exchanged between different hospitals while protecting patient privacy and ensuring safety, this type of federated learning will drive AI healthcare. Taiwan in a new kingdom.
He was also invited to the workshop Elham Tabassi, Chief of Staff of the NIST Information Technology Laboratory, who shared NIST’s AI risk management tools that can make AI inference as fair as possible based on trusted AI models. In the meantime, Jeannette M. Wingexecutive vice president of research Columbia Universitybelieves that the reliability of AI systems can be increased by expanding trusted computing architecture.
Other event attendees included Andres Shikiar, CEO and Chief Marketing Officer of the FIDO Alliance; Founder of Taiwan AI Labs ethan you; Jane Yung-Jen Hsu, Professor of Computer Science and Information Engineering at National Taiwan University; CEO of the Hon Hai Research Institute Wei Bin Lee; Shang-Wei Chou, principal engineer at Egis Technology Inc.; Tzeng-yow linExecutive Director of the National Measurement Laboratory and General Director of the ITRI Measurement Standards Center; Kai Lung Hua, Deputy Director General of the ITRI Information and Communications Research Laboratories. These experts shared development trends and experience in trustworthy AI and held discussions on a technology roadmap for Taiwan.
About ITRI
The Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) is one of the world’s leading technology R&D institutions that aims to innovate a better future for society. Founded in 1973, ITRI has played a vital role in transforming from taiwan labour-intensive to innovation-driven industries. To address market needs and global trends, it has released its Technology Strategy and Roadmap 2030 and focuses on developing innovation in Smart Living, Quality Health and Sustainable Environment. It also strives to strengthen intelligence enabling technology to support diversified applications.
Over the years, ITRI has been dedicated to incubating startups and spin-offs, including such well-known names as UMC and TSMC. In addition to its headquarters in TaiwanITRI has branches in the US, EuropeY Japan in an effort to expand its R&D scope and promote international cooperation around the world. For more information please visit https://www.itri.org/eng.
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