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ai with ai: Super-AI Reveals Answer to Everything: IDK, LUL
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In a review of the latest news, Andy and Dave discuss: the White House’s “plan” for AI, the departure of employees from Google due to Project Maven, another Tesla crash, the first AI degree for undergraduates at CMU, and Boston Dynamics’ jumping and climbing robots. Next, two AI research topics have implications for neuroscience. First, Andy and Dave discuss AI research at DeepMind, which showed that an AI trained to navigate between two points developed “grid cells,” very similar to those found in the mammalian brain. And second, another finding from DeepMind on “meta-learning” suggests that dopamine in the human brain may have a more integral role in meta-learning than previously thought. In another example of “AI-chemy,” Andy and Dave discuss the looming problem of (lack of) explainability in health care (with implications for many other areas, such as DoD), and they also discuss some recent research on adding an option for an AI to defer a decision with “I Don’t Know” (IDK). After a quick romp through the halls of AI-generated DOOM, the two discuss a recent proof that reveals the fundamental limits of scientific knowledge (so much for super-AIs). And finally, they close with a few media recommendations, including “The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect.”
ai with ai: Better Lying Through Alchemy
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In a review of the most recent news, Andy and Dave discuss the latest information on the fatal self-driving Uber accident, the AI community reacts (poorly) to Nature's announcement of a new closed-access section on machine learning, on-demand self-driving cars will be coming soon to north Dallas, and the Chinese government is adding AI to the high school curriculum with a mandated textbook. For more in-depth topics, Andy and Dave discuss the latest information from DARPA's Lifelong Learning Machines (L2M) project, which has announced its initial teams and topics, which seek to generate "paradigm-changing approaches" as opposed to incremental improvements. Next, they discuss an experiment from OpenAI that provides visibility into a dialogue between two AI on a topic, one of which is lying. This discussion segues into recent comparisons of the field of machine learning to the ancient art of alchemy. Dave avoids using the word "alcheneering," but thinks that "AI-chemy" might be worth considering. Finally, after a discussion on a couple of photography-related developments, they close with a discussion on some papers and videos of interest, including the splash of Google's new "Turing-test-beating" Duplex assistant for conducting natural conversations over the phone.
ai with ai: Nuclear War and/or Better French Fries
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Andy and Dave discuss a couple of recent reports and events on AI, including the Sixth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR). Next, Edward Ott and fellow researchers have applied machine learning to replicate chaotic attractors, using "reservoir computing." Andy describes the reasons for his excitement in seeing how far out this technique is able to predict a 4th order nonlinear partial differential equation. Next, Andy and Dave discuss a few adversarial attack-related topics: a single-pixel attack for fooling deep neural network (DNN) image classifiers; an Adversarial Robustness Toolbox from IBM Research Ireland, which provides an open-source software library to help researchers in defending DNN against adversarial attacks; and the susceptibility of the medical field to fraudulent attacks. The BAYOU project takes another step toward giving AI the ability to program new methods for implementing tasks. And Uber Labs releases source code that can train a DNN to play Atari games in about 4 hours on a *single* 48-core modern desktop! Finally, after a review of a few books and videos, including Paul Scharre's new book "Army of None," Andy and Dave conclude with a discussion on potatoes.
ai with ai: Human-Machine Teaming with Major General Mick Ryan
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This week, Andy, Larry, and Dave welcome Major General Mick Ryan, Commander of the Australian Defence College. Mick has recently published a report on Human-Machine Teaming for Future Ground Forces, in which he identifies key areas for human-machine teams, as well as challenges that military forces will have in incorporating these new capabilities. The group discusses some of these issues and some of the broader challenges in both the near- and far-term.
ai with ai: Moments in Time, Humans Are Underrated and Hugging Robots
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Andy and Dave start this week's podcast with a review of some of the latest announcements: the latest meeting of the UN Convention on Certain Convention Weapons, SecDef Mattis's announcement of a new joint program office for AI, a declaration of cooperation on AI by 25 European countries, and a UK Parliament report on AI. They then discuss the latest Center for the Study of the Drone report, which compares U.S. Dept of Defense drone spending for FY19 with FY18. The MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab has launched a "Moments in Time" dataset, the first step toward building a large and robust set of short videos for action classification purposes. Google has increased the quality of its AI in picking voices out of a noisy room, by making use of additional information (here, video). And Google has introduced a way to "talk to books;" Andy and Dave were a bit underwhelmed, but check it out and judge for yourself. Finally, Andy and Dave close with a selection of whimsical comments from the news, and a selection of videos.
ai with ai: Unmanned Systems, AI, and the U.S. Navy, with CAPT Sharif Calfee, Part II
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Anna Williams   joins Dave in welcoming CAPT Sharif Calfee for a two-part discussion on unmanned systems and artificial intelligence. As part of his fellowship research, CAPT Calfee has been speaking with organizations and subject matter experts across the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Government, Federally Funded Research and Development Centers, University Affiliated Research Centers, and Industry, in order to understand the broader efforts involving unmanned systems, autonomy, and artificial intelligence. In the first part of their discussion, the group discusses the progress and the challenges that the CAPT has observed in his engagements. In the second part, the group discusses various steps that the U.S. Navy can take to move forward more deliberately, including the consideration for a new Naval Reactors-like office to oversee AI.
ai with ai: Unmanned Systems, AI, and the U.S. Navy, with CAPT Sharif Calfee, Part I
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Anna Williams   joins Dave in welcoming CAPT Sharif Calfee for a two-part discussion on unmanned systems and artificial intelligence. As part of his fellowship research, CAPT Calfee has been speaking with organizations and subject matter experts across the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Government, Federally Funded Research and Development Centers, University Affiliated Research Centers, and Industry, in order to understand the broader efforts involving unmanned systems, autonomy, and artificial intelligence. In the first part of their discussion, the group discusses the progress and the challenges that the CAPT has observed in his engagements. In the second part, the group discusses various steps that the U.S. Navy can take to move forward more deliberately, including the consideration for a new Naval Reactors-like office to oversee AI.
ai with ai: Pushback on AI, Meta-learning, and Robot Expressions
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Andy and Dave cover a wide variety of topics this week, starting with two prominent examples of employees and researchers objecting to certain uses of AI technology. Andy and Dave then discuss a recent GAO report on AI, as well as France’s announcement to invest in AI. They also discuss AI in designing chemical synthesis pathways, AI in reading echocardiograms, meta-learning (learning how to learn in unsupervised learning), helping robots express themselves when they fail, and a collection of papers, graphic novels, and videos. By the end, Dave’s arms are flailing wildly!
ai with ai: A Turing Test, the GAN Zoo, and Dreaming of Electric Sheep
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Dave starts with a shocking revelation! Can you pass the test?? Andy and Dave then discuss MIT Tech Review’s EmTech Digital Conference, which highlighted the latest in AI research. Next, Andy and Dave discuss the rapid expansion of newly reported AI models, including the “GAN Zoo.” Venture capital funding in the U.S. suggests that the AI market may be cooling. Andy describes new insight into brain function that will likely lead to further AI breakthroughs. And after a discussion of an AI playing Battlefield 1, Andy and Dave close with a look at AIs learning in electric dreams, and a GAN that can lip sync a face to an audio-video clip.
ai with ai: Driverless Vehicles, Digital Yeast, and Montezuma’s Revenge
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With the news of the first death at the digital hands of a driverless vehicle, Andy and Dave discuss some of the broader issues surrounding the understanding and implementation of AI technology. In other news, they discuss the creation of a digital version of yeast (DCell) as a way to provide insight into the otherwise “black box” of AI. Then, after describing DeepMind’s efforts into using evolutionary Auto Machine Learning to discover neural network architectures, Andy and Dave discuss an example of how background knowledge (“priors”) transfers to the world of games, and how that compares with AI.