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ai with ai: Will You, Won’t You Join the DANs?

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In COVID-related AI news, Andy and Dave discuss a report from MIT that identifies gaps in coverage from COVID vaccines, and uses machine learning to identify peptide additions to increase their efficacy. The GAO and the National Academy of Medicine release a combined report on AI in health care. Nature provides access to a large collection of open datasets related to COVID research and information. In non-COVID-related AI news, President Trump signs an executive order on the governmental development of AI, which includes a requirement for OMB to produce a roadmap by the end of May 2021. The FY21 National Defense Authorization Act boots the JAIC’s role and performance, to include a funding stream for acquisition authority. The ML-Reproducibility Challenge 2020 kicks off, with submissions due by 29 January 2021. Researchers in China announce the creation of a photonic quantum computer that achieves quantum supremacy in conducting Gaussian boson sampling. The Bjarke Ingles Group unveils its plans to create an “AI city,” a tech-hub in Chongqing, China. And the Navy’s uncrewed Overlord test vessel completes a 4700 nautical mile journey with minimal human assistance, to include passage through the Panama Canal. Researchers at Georgia State University demonstrate an approach to continual learning with deep artificial neurons (DANs), a neural network, where the neurons are themselves small deep neural networks. And researchers at Tencent AI Lab demonstrate an almost society-of-agents approach to creating a deep reinforcement algorithm that can play multi-player online battle arena (MOBA) games.

ai with ai: Poetein Folding

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In COVID-related AI news, Andy and Dave discuss a Facebook model that provides county-level forecasts on the spread of COVID-19. IN non-COVID AI news, DeepMind’s AlphaFold 2 won the 14th biennial Critical Assessment of Structure Prediction (CASP), scoring above 90 on a global distance test for around two-thirds of the test proteins. Partnership on AI establishes The AI Incident Database (AIID) to provide an open-access resource on failures of AI systems, currently containing over 1,000 publically available “incident reports.” CSET publishes a report on ‘”Cool Projects” or “Expanding the Efficiency of the Murderous American War Machine?”’ which examines the perspectives of US AI industry professional toward working on Department of Defense funded AI projects. The UN, in conjunction with Trend Micro Research and the European Cybercrime Centre, releases a report on Malicious Uses and Abuses of AI, which highlights the potential physical impacts of hackers on autonomous- and AI-related technologies. And LtGen Michael Groen, the new Director of the Joint AI Center, provides an overview of the JAIC’s goals and objectives. In research, NVidia, Rice University, and Caltech publish the BONGARD-LOGO benchmark set, as an expansion of the Bongard Problems, which provide free-form shape concepts to test context-dependent perception, analogy-making perception, and perception with few samples. Joshua C. Gellers provides the book of the week, examining the case for Rights for Robots. And Google AI releases Verse by Verse, which draws upon the writings of various poets to help users generate their own poems, of which Andy and Dave both share examples.

ai with ai: Underbyte

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In COVID-related AI news, Andy and Dave discuss research from MIT, BIM, and Harvard Medical School, which uses machine learning on Reddit posts to track the pandemic’s impact on mental health. And the UK and is planning to use AI to spot dangerous side effects in COVID vaccinations. In non-COVID AI news, Andy and Dave take a look at how the AI-based poll predictions faired in the 2020 US election. The White House issues guidance for federal agencies on AI applications. The University of Copenhagen makes Carbontracker available, which provides an estimate of the energy consumption for training deep learning algorithms. DARPA selects 5 teams to head to the next phase of its Air Combat Evolution competition. And the 34th Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) plans for virtual proceedings in early December. In research, 40 authors from Google publish findings on the challenges of deploying an AI system into the real world, such as unexpectedly poor behavior, which they attribute to underspecification. The Marine Corps University Press releases the second volume of Destination Unknown. Andy’s “vintage magazine of the week” is the April 1985 of Byte, which covered Artificial Intelligence. And Matt Stone and Trey Parker introduce Sassy Justice, a parody comedy which warns of the dangers of deepfakes, by itself being a series of deepfakes (including President Trump, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, former Vice President Al Gore, and many others).

ai with ai: A.I. in the Sky

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Andy and Dave welcome Arthur Holland Michel to the podcast for a discussion on predictability and understandability in military AI. Arthur is an Associate Researcher at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research, a Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, and author of the book Eyes in the Sky: the Secret Rise of Gorgon Stare and How It Will Watch Us All. Arthur recently published The Black Box, Unlocked: Predictability and Understandability in Military AI, and the three discuss the inherent challenges of artificial intelligence and the challenges of creating definitions to enable meaningful global discussion on AI.

ai with ai: The Rosetta Drone

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In COVID-related AI news, MIT researchers have published a machine learning algorithm that can diagnose COVID-19 by the sounds of a person’s forced cough. And the US Veterans Affairs Department rolls out a machine learning tool to predict mortality rates of COVID-19 patients. In non-COVID news, the JAIC releases the Department of Defense’s AI Education Strategy, which contains a detailed description of requirements, required instruction, and competencies. DoD also releases a new electromagnetic spectrum strategy, which contains a number of machine-learning mentions. And Tesla began making available its “full self-driving beta” to a small number of “expert and careful drivers.” Research from MIT CSAIL have created a machine learning system that can reportedly decipher “lost” languages; they built it on several principles from insights into historical linguistics, such as the observation that languages generally only evolve in certain predictable ways (such as sound substitutions). In other language news, Facebook makes available a machine learning model that can translate directly between 100 different languages (rather than using English as a go-between). Research from CalTech and Purdue creates a “Fourier neural operator” that can solve parametric partial differential equations, nearly 1000 times faster than traditional solvers. And research from the University of Waterloo looks at “less than one-“shot learning, attempting to allow an AI to learn with almost no data (and thus recognize more objectives than the number of examples trained on).

ai with ai: Thunderbots

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Sam Bendett joins Andy and Dave to discuss the latest developments and happenings in Russia's research into artificial intelligence and autonomy capabilities. They discuss Russia's national strategy and the challenges that have occurred in programmatic implementation due to COVID impacts. They also discuss the status of higher education in Russia and the standing of various institutions, as well as their relationship and interaction with the global community of researchers. They cover a variety of other trends and topics, including the Army 2020 convention and some of the announcements made during that event; and they discuss CNA's Russia Program and its on-going series of newsletters dedicated to summarizing the latest in Russian advances and research in AI.

ai with ai: Lone Hacker and Child

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In COVID-related AI news, Andy and Dave discuss the COVID-19 Grand Challenge from C3.ai. In non-COVID AI news, the Department of Defense releases its Data Strategy. The Defense Science Board publishes a report on Counter Autonomy. The National Security Commission on AI releases its 3rd Quarter interim report and recommendations. The Center for Security and Emerging Technology releases a report on Building Trust through Testing. And the US Patent and Trademark Office publishes the responses to its initial queries, in Public Views on AI and Intellectual Property Policy. Researchers from MIT and Berkeley explore the idea that children’s learning has analogy to hacking, by making code better through an open-ended set of goals and activities. Nathan Benaich and Ian Hogarth release the State of AI Report 202, which examines the latest developments in AI research across a variety of areas (such as observing that only 15% of papers publish their code). And Taylor and Dorin publish Rise of the Self-Replicators: Early Visions of Machines, AI and Robots that Reproduce and Evolve.

ai with ai: PROGRESS Out of the Blue

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Andy and Dave have a chat with Chad Jenkins, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan, Director of the Laboratory for Perception, RObotics, and Grounded REasoning SystemS (PROGRESS), and newest member of CNA's Board of Trustees. They discuss Chad's background and his current research at Michigan, which includes interactive robot systems and human-robot interaction. And then they discuss a variety of topics ranging from movement primitives, neural networks and fat tails, the issue of reinvention, students' experiences with AI research and the role of historical research, the culture of research in AI, and much more.

ai with ai: The Robohattan Project

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In COVID-related AI news, Andy and Dave discuss survey results from Algorithmia, which shows that IT directors at large companies are looking to spend more money on AI/ML projects due to the pandemic. In regular AI news, the bipartisan Future of Defense Task Force releases its 2020 report, which includes the suggestion of using the Manhattan Project as a model to develop AI technologies. The US and UK sign an agreement to work together on trustworthy AI. Facebook AI releases Dynabench as a way to dynamically benchmark the performance of machine learning algorithms. Amsterdam and Helsinki launch AI registers that explain how they use algorithms, in an effort to increase transparency. In research, the Allen Institute of AI, University of Washington, and University of North Carolina publish research on X-LXMERT (learning cross-modality encoder representations from transformers), which trains GPT-3 on both text and images, to then generate images from scratch by providing descriptions (e.g., a large clock tower in the middle of a town). Researchers at Swarthmore College and Los Alamos National Labs demonstrate the challenges that neural networks of various sizes have in learning Conway’s Game of Life. Maria Jeansson, Claudio Sanna, and Antoine Cully create a stunning visual infographic on the “automated futures” technologies. And the Joshua Epstein, a longtime expert in agent-based modeling, provides the European Social Stimulation Association Award Keynote speech.

ai with ai: Tell-Tale Heart

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In COVID-related AI news, Youyang Gu provides world- and county-level COVID-19 predictions using machine learning, along with a rolling examination of accuracy. In regular AI news, a military coalition of 13 countries meets to discuss the use of and ethics of AI. Orcan Intelligence provides a deeper look into Europeans’ concerns about AI technologies. Ben Lee and the Library of Congress unveil the full open version of the Newspaper Navigator, which provides access to 1.56 million photographs from newspapers. Research from Intel and Binghamton University uses the pulse of the beating heart to identify deep fake videos with a 97% accuracy. And Arthur Holland Michel publishes the Black Box, Unlocked: Predictability and Understandability in Military AI.