DAILY INNOVATION BRIEF by Edward Kane, Journalist

 DAILY INNOVATION BRIEF

                                                                      

                 By Journalists Edward Kane & Maryanne Kane

BMW'S ROLLING WORKS OF ART

                              Source: BMW & Mehretu Art

• For 50 years, BMW has been choosing top global artists like Andy Warhol and Jeff Koons to use a BMW as a canvas and create a work of art to showcase innovation, creativity and automobiles
• This year, an international panel of museum directors and curators unanimously selected world-renowned, Ethiopian-American artist Julie Mehretu, who specializes in highly innovative abstract art, to paint a BMW M Hybrid V8 as BMW's latest Art Car
• Mehretu is known for big scale, highly intricate abstract landscapes that incorporate images of art, history & current news
• The plug-in hybrid M, that's all about top speeds of 200 mph, 640 hp, 479 ft-lbs of torque & 8200 rpm, will be competing at the 2024 24 Hour-LeMans race adorned in its artwork as the 20th BMW "rolling sculpture" as BMW calls it 
• An acclaimed artist whose 80-foot mural is displayed in the Goldman Sachs lobby in Manhattan, Mehretu has been studying race cars at the Daytona Racetrack for inspiration & is impressed with their speed, motion & blurry images, which she is likely to incorporate into her Art Car
• Mehretu is rooting for her car to win LeMans and is working closely with the race team to ensure nothing she creates for the Art Car puts any drag on the race car. 

MARS AND THE SEARCH FOR LIFE

                                                        Source: Caltech & Brown University

• Stunning new scientific findings from a team at Caltech and Brown University have found evidence of water on Mars a few hundred thousand years ago that could flow again
• It raises the possibility that the Red Planet may have and could be sustaining some sort of life
• Using computer models, the scientists found that gullies were beveled out of the surface of Mars by flowing water from melting ice about 630,000 years ago, which on Mars is fairly recent
• The scientists created models simulating how conditions on Mars created warmer and frozen geologic periods that triggered glaciers to melt & erode the rocky surface and then refreeze
• It's believed these locations could contain fossilized remains of ancient life on Mars
• 3 billion years ago, Mars was a wet and warm planet, but something changed it, making it arid & dusty today, with the exception of its poles where water is trapped under permafrost, which could also contain some form or trace of life
• Over time, the key to ice melt has been Mars rotating on its axis to 35-degrees which has triggered water flows & according to the new research could happen again.

AI RISK:  AUTOMATING DISCRIMINATION

                                    Source:  Stock

• There are growing warnings that AI could automate discrimination
• Deloitte Consulting notes that AI systems are only as good as the data that they're fed and if the data is incomplete or not representative, it will limit objectivity
• Furthermore, other experts point out that there is not enough diversity in AI leadership and coding; systems are mostly being built by white men
• Unrepresentative, "biased" AI systems can cost people job opportunities, loans & more
• Experts say it is particularly in the lending industry where AI poses the biggest risk to marginalized communities
• According to Twitter's former head of machine learning ethics Rumman Chowdhury:  "Algorithm discrimination is very tangible.  Chicago has a history of denying loans to black neighborhoods"
• Experts say this problem needs to be addressed, perhaps by a global regulatory authority, because AI systems are not transparent black boxes and individual cases of AI bias are difficult to document and prove.

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