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The MPAI Standards Portfolio

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1          Introduction Established in September 2020 with its mission defined by the MPAI Statutes as promotion of efficient data use by developing AI-enabled data coding standards and bridging the gap between MPAI standards and their practical use through Intellectual Property Rights Guidelines, MPAI has developed nine Technical Specifications. Purpose of this document is to provide a short overview of the nine Technical Specifications. 1       Introduction 2       AI Framework (MPAI-AIF) 2.1        Version 1 2.2        Version 2 3       Avatar Representation and Animation…

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MPAI reaches a milestone: five Standards and three Calls for Technologies

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The MPAI mission as defined by the MPAI Statutes is the promotion of efficient data use by developing AI-enabled data coding standards and bridging the gap between MPAI standards and their practical use through the development of Intellectual Property Rights Guidelines. Establishing and putting in motion an organisation with this ambitious mission was a challenge, however, in its first 15 months MPAI published five standards, on audio, speech, finance, execution of AI apps, and ecosystem governance. In the following year,…

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MPAI tackles metaverse interoperability

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The dozens of metaverse definitions that people have attempted over the years demonstrate that the word conveys different meanings to different people. Without trying to join the attempts, metaverse can be characterised as a system that captures and processes data from the real world, combines it with internally generated data, and creates virtual environments humans interact with. So far, metaverse designers have made independent technology choices, often without considering those of other developers. Recently, however, concerns have been raised about…

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Do we need standards for Connected Autonomous Vehicles?

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Enabling individuals or groups of people to move independently has been a major achievement that has changed human life for the better. Motor vehicles, however, have created a number of negative consequences such as, accidents causing damages, injuries, and deaths; congestion on the roads, millions of cars carrying a single person for a couple of ours and then staying, unused; air pollution, worsening of urban environments, etc. Connected autonomous vehicles (CAV) have the potential to eliminate human error replacing it…

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MPAI Calls for “Connected Autonomous Vehicle” Technologies

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(Freepick image) The global efforts to make the presence of humans less impacting on the Earth that hosts us should include Connected Autonomous Vehicles (CAV). Still far away is the moment, however, when it will be possible to all to ask a CAV in plain language to take us to a destination basically executing the functions that we perform when we are behind the wheel. One way to accelerate the coming of that moment is to develop standard for components…

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Finally: a conference highlights the synergy of Metaverse and AI

Shanghai, a humongous city of 30 million people, traditionally the commercial heart of China, and many things more has hosted the Global AI Conference 2023 conference, a cluster of events held at different locations of the city. I was invited to give two keynote speeches in two sessions that had metaverse and AI as title. Here I will introduce my second speech whose content was largely influenced by my perceived need to promote understanding of the role of interoperability in…

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