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ai and autonomy in russia: Issue 41, June 27, 2022

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and productivity.  Russia advances ethical regulations surrounding AI  Three more regions will sign the Code of Ethics in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), including Khanty-Mansiysk, Innopolis ... . Before the establishment of this Code of Ethics, there were no regulatory guidelines on the ethics of AI implementation and development. As discussed in issue 39 of AI in Russia, the document consists of two sections: ethical AI implementation and development, and personal and information security within AI technology and innovation.  In addition to the new Code of Ethics, there is a new

ai with ai: The GPT Blob

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In this week's COVID-related AI news, Andy and Dave discuss "SciFact" from the Allen Institute for AI, which built on neural network VeriSci and can link to supporting or refuting materials for claims about COVID-19. Berkeley Labs releases COVIDScholar, which uses natural language processing text-mining to search over 60,000 papers and draw insights and connections. Berekely Labs also announces plans to use machine learning to estimate COVID-19's seasonal cycle. In non-COVID AI news, Google publishes a response to the European Commission's white paper on AI, cautioning that their definition of AI is far too broad and risks stifling innovation. CSET maps where AI talent is produced in the U.S., where it gets concentrated, and where AI funding equity goes. In research, OpenAI releases GPT-3, a 175B parameter NLP model, and shows that massively scaling up the language model greatly improves task-agnostic few-shot performance. A report from the European Parliament's Panel for the Future of Science and Technology shows the ethics initiatives of nations around the globe. A review paper in Science suggests that progress in AI has stalled (perhaps as much as 10 years) in some fields. Abbass, Scholz, and Reid publish Foundations of Trusted Autonomy, a collection of essays and reports on trustworthiness and autonomy. And in the video of the week, CSIS sponsored a conversation with (now retired) JAIC Director, Lt Gen Shanahan.

for the Future of Science and Technology shows the ethics initiatives of nations around the globe. A review paper in Science suggests that progress in AI has stalled (perhaps as much as 10 years) in some ... , May-June 2015) Report of the Week The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: Issues and Initiatives 128 page report Review Paper(s) of the Week Core progress in AI has stalled in some ... 3-32 In this week's COVID-related AI news, Andy and Dave discuss "SciFact" from the Allen Institute for AI, which built on neural network VeriSci and can link to supporting or refuting materials

ai with ai: Beauty Is in the AI of the Perceiver

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Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news, including an upgraded version of OpenAI’s CoPilot, called, Codex, which can not only complete code but creates it as well (based on natural language inputs from its users). The National Science Foundation is providing $220 million in grants to 11 new National AI Research Institutes (including two fully funded by the NSF). A new DARPA program seeks to explore how AI systems can share their experiences with each other, in Shared-Experience Lifelong Learning (ShELL). The Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs introduces two AI-related bills: the AI Training Act (to establish a training program to educate the federal acquisition workforce), and the Deepfake Task Force Act (to task DHS to produce a coordinated plan on how a “digital content provenance” standard might assist with decreasing the spread of deepfakes). And the Inspectors General of the NSA and DoD partner to conduct a joint evaluation of NSA’s integration of AI into signals intelligence efforts. In research, DeepMind creates the Perceiver IO architecture, which works across a wide variety of input and output spaces, challenging the idea that different kinds of data need different neural network architectures. DeepMind also publishes PonderNet, which learns to adapt the amount of computation based on the complexity of the problem (rather than the size of the inputs). Research from MIT uses the corpus of US patents to predict the rate of technological improvements for all technologies. The European Parliamentary Research Service publishes a report on Innovative Technologies Shaping the 2040 Battlefield. Quanta Magazine publishes an interview with Melanie Mitchell, which includes a deeper discussion on her research in analogies. And Springer-Verlag makes available for free An Introduction to Ethics in Robotics and AI (by Christoph Bartneck, Christoph Lütge, Alan Wagner, and Sean Welsh).

. And Springer-Verlag makes available for free An Introduction to Ethics in Robotics and AI (by Christoph Bartneck, Christoph Lütge, Alan Wagner, and Sean Welsh). /images/AI-Posters/AI_4_40.jpg Beauty ... Book of the Week An Introduction to Ethics in Robotics and AI Book – open access ContactName /*/Contact/ContactName ContactTitle /*/Contact/JobTitle ContactEmail /*/Contact ... 4-40 Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news, including an upgraded version of OpenAI’s CoPilot, called, Codex, which can not only complete code but creates it as well (based on natural

ai with ai: Some Pigsel

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In COVID-related AI news, Andy and Dave discuss an effort from Google and Harvard to provide county-level forecasts on COVID-19 for hospitals and first responders. The National Library of Medicine, National Center of Biotechnology Information, and NIH provide COVID-19 literature analysis with interesting data analytic and visualization tools. In regular AI news, Elon Musk demonstrates the latest iteration of Neuralink, complete with pig implantees. The UK attempted a prediction system for Most Serious Violence, but found that it had serious flaws. Amazon awards a $500k “Alexa Prize” to Emory University students for their Emora chatbot, which scored a 3.81 average rating across categories. The Bipartisan Policy Center releases two reports on AI. And Russell Kirsch, inventor of the pixel and other groundbreaking technology, passed away on 11 August at the age of 91. In research, three papers tackle the problem of reconstructing 3D (in some cases, 4D) models of locations based on tourist photos taking from different vantage points and at different times: the NeRF (Neural Radiance Fields) model and the Plenoptic model. The Human Rights Watch releases a report summarizing Country Positions on Banning Fully Autonomous Weapons and Retaining Human Control. Springer-Verlag releases yet-another-freebie with An Introduction to Ethics and Robotics in AI. And the Conference on Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition has posted the papers and videos from its June 2020 session.

Country Positions on Banning Fully Autonomous Weapons and Retaining Human Control. Springer-Verlag releases yet-another-freebie with An Introduction to Ethics and Robotics in AI. And the Conference ... Musk’s presentation - full A U.K. AI Developed to predict violent crime found to be seriously flawed 12 page Ethics Committee report Amazon Awards $500K “Alexa Prize” to Emory ... and Retaining Human Control 63 page report Book of the Week An Introduction to Ethics and Robotics and AI 124 page book Video of the Week Presentations from CVPR 2020 Available

ai with ai: Chasing AIMe

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Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI new and research, including: [1:28] Researchers from several universities in biomedicine establish the AIMe registry, a community-driven reporting platform for providing information and standards of AI research in biomedicine. [4:15] Reuters publishes a report with insight into examples at Google, Microsoft, and IBM, where ethics reviews have curbed or canceled projects. [8:11] Researchers at the University of Tübingen create an AI method for significantly accelerating super-resolution microscopy, which makes heavy use of synthetic training data. [13:21] The US Navy establishes Task Force 59 in the Middle East, which will focus on the incorporation of unmanned and AI systems into naval operations. [15:44] The Department of Commerce establishes the National AI Advisory Committee, in accordance with the National AI Initiative Act of 2020. [19:02] Jess Whittlestone and Jack Clark publish a white paper on Why and How Governments Should Monitor AI Development, with predictions into the types of problems that will occur with inaction. [19:02] The Center for Security and Emerging Technology publishes a series of data-snapshots related to AI research, from over 105 million publications. [23:53] In research, Google Research, Brain Team, and University of Montreal take a broad look at deep reinforcement learning research and find discrepancies between conclusions drawn from point estimates (fewer runs, due to high computational costs) versus more thorough statistical analysis, calling for a change in how to evaluate performance in deep RL. [30:13] Quebec AI Institute publishes a survey of post-hoc interpretability on neural natural language processing. [31:39] MIT Technology Review dedicates its Sep/Oct 2021 issues to The Mind, with articles all about the brain. [32:05] Katy Borner publishes Atlas of Forecasts: Modeling and Mapping Desirable Futures, showing how models, maps, and forecasts inform decision-making in education, science, technology, and policy-making. [33:16] DeepMind in collaboration with University College London offers a comprehensive introduction to modern reinforcement learning, with 13lectures (~1.5 hours each) on the topic.

4-44 Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI new and research, including: [1:28] Researchers from several universities in biomedicine establish the AIMe registry, a community-driven reporting platform for providing information and standards of AI research in biomedicine. [4:15] Reuters publishes a report with insight into examples at Google, Microsoft, and IBM, where ethics reviews have ... Technical paper AIMe Registry homepage Big Tech slams ethics brakes on AI Machine learning improves biological image analysis Nontechnical summary Technical paper Earlier

ai with ai: Oura-boros

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In COVID-related AI news, Andy and Dave discuss an announcement from WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute, WVU Medicine, and Oura Health, with the ability to predict COVID-19 related symptoms up to three days in advance via biometric monitoring. Japan's M3 is teaming with Alibaba's AI Tech to provide CT-scan capability to hospitals that can identify COVID-related pneumonia. The Pentagon taps into the virus-relief CARES Act to use AI for virus cure and vaccine efforts. Rockefeller announces efforts to use GPT-2 to automatically summarize COVID-19 medical research articles, but the results aren’t that great. In regular AI news, IBM announces it is no longer offering general-purpose facial recognition or analysis software, due to concerns about the technology being used to promote racism. And in a related announcement, Amazon places a one-year moratorium on allowing law enforcement to use its Rekognition facial recognition platform. USSOCOM has posted an RFI for potential contractors to provide its Global Analytics Platform, a $300-600M contract that would follow its previous eMAPS contract. And NASA launches its Entrepreneurs Challenge, seeking new ideas for space exploration. In research, from the University of Pennsylvania, UC Berkeley, Google Brain, University of Toronto, Carnegie Mellon University, and Facebook AI, comes a different approach to defining intrinsic motivation for taskless problems, wherein agents seek out future inputs that are expected to be novel. The report of the week comes from the Stanley Center for Peace and Security, with a look at The Militarization of AI. Researchers at Beijing Academy and Cambridge University come together to pen a white paper calling for "cross-cultural cooperation" on AI ethics and governance. Efron, Hastie, and Cambridge University Press provide Computer Age Statistical Inference for free. And DeepMind and the UCL Centre for AI are producing a Deep Learning Lecture Series.

at The Militarization of AI. Researchers at Beijing Academy and Cambridge University come together to pen a white paper calling for "cross-cultural cooperation" on AI ethics and governance. Efron, Hastie ... Intelligence 32 page report White Paper of the Week An International Call for "Cross-Cultural Cooperation" on AI Ethics and Governance Summary 23 Page Paper Book of the Week ... 3-33 In COVID-related AI news, Andy and Dave discuss an announcement from WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute, WVU Medicine, and Oura Health, with the ability to predict COVID-19 related

ai with ai: Is it Alive or is it Xeno-rex?

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Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news and research, starting with the US Department of Defense creating a new position of the Chief Digital and AI Officer, subsuming the Joint AI Center, the Defense Digital Service, and the office of the Chief Data Officer [0:32]. Member states of UNESCO adopt the first-ever global agreement on the ethics of AI, which includes recommendations on protecting data, banning social scoring and mass surveillance, helping to monitor and evaluate, and protecting the environment [3:26]. The European Digital Rights and 119 civil society organizations launch a collective call for an AI Act to articulate fundamental rights (for humans) regarding AI technology and research [6:02]. The Future of Life Institute releases Slaughterbots 2.0: “if human: kill()” ahead of the 3rd session in Geneva of the Group of Governmental Experts discussing lethal autonomous weapons systems [7:15]. In research, Xenobots 3.0, the living robots made from frog cells, demonstrate the ability to replicate themselves kinematically, at least for a couple of generations (extended to four generations by using an evolutionary algorithm to model ideal structures for replication) [12:23]. And researchers from DeepMind, Oxford, and Sydney demonstrate the ability to collaborate with machine learning algorithms to discover new results in mathematics (in knot theory and representation theory); though another researcher attempts to dampen the utility of the claims. [17:57] And finally, Dr. Mike Stumborg joins Dave and Andy to discuss research in Human-Machine Teaming, why it’s important, and where the research will be going [21:44].

Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news and research, starting with the US Department of Defense creating a new position of the Chief Digital and AI Officer, subsuming the Joint AI Center, the Defense Digital Service, and the office of the Chief Data Officer [0:32]. Member states of UNESCO adopt the first-ever global agreement on the ethics of AI, which includes recommendations on protecting ... office Summary and analysis Memo by Kathleen Hicks UNESCO member states adopt the 1 st ever global agreement on the Ethics of AI Summary Full text 24 experts who

ai with ai: The AI Is Smarter on the Other Side of the FENCE

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Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news and research, including the new DARPA FENCE program (Fast Event-based Neuromorphic Camera and Electronics), which seeks to create event-based cameras that only focus on pixels that have changed in a scene. NIST proposed an approach for reducing the risk of bias in AI and has invited the public to comment and help improve it. Researchers from the University of Colorado, Boulder use a machine learning model to learn physical properties in electronics building blocks (such as clumps of silicon and germanium atoms), as a way to predict how larger electronics components will work or fail. Researchers in South Korea create an artificial skin that mimics human tactile recognition, and couple it with a deep learning algorithm to classify surface structures (with an accuracy of 99.1%). A survey from IE University shows, among other things, that 75% of people surveys in China support replacing parliamentarians with AI, while in the US, 60% were opposed to it. A scientist with uses machine learning to learn Rembrandt's style and then recreate missing pieces of the painter's "The Night Watch." Researchers at Harvard, San Diego, Fujitsu, and MIT present methodical research on demonstrating how classification neural networks are susceptible to small 2D transformations and shifts, image crops, and changes in object colors. The GAO releases a report on Facial Recognition Technology, surveying 42 federal agencies, and finds a general lack of accountability in the use of the technology. The WHO releases a report on Ethics and Governance of AI for Health. In rebuttal to DeepMind's "Reward is enough" paper, Roitblat and Byrnes pens separate essays on why "Reward is not enough." An open-access book by Wang and Barabasi looks at the Science of Science. Julia Schneider and Lena Ziyal join forces to provide a comical essay on AI: We Need to Talk, AI. And the National Security Commission on AI holds an all-day summary on Global Emerging Technology.

4-37 Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news and research, including the new DARPA FENCE program (Fast Event-based Neuromorphic Camera and Electronics), which seeks to create event-based cameras that only focus on pixels that have changed in a scene. NIST proposed an approach for reducing the risk of bias in AI and has invited the public to comment and help improve it. Researchers from ... structures (with an accuracy of 99.1%). A survey from IE University shows, among other things, that 75% of people surveys in China support replacing parliamentarians with AI, while in the US, 60

ai with ai: Finding Lenia

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Andy and Dave discuss a white paper from the National Security Commission on AI, on Privacy and Ethics Recommendations for Computing Applications Developed to Mitigate COVID-19. The Office of the Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security issues a second point paper on lethal autonomous weapons systems, with AI, Human-Machine Interaction, and Autonomous Weapons. DARPA announces its Air Space Total Awareness for Rapid Tactical Execution (ASTARTE) program, which aims to use low-cost sensors to create a better common operating picture. The Joint AI Center establishes a Data Governance Council to establish an enterprise-wide data governance framework. The JAIC also releases an AI Primer for DoD officials. The U.S. Patent and Trademark office denies patents on the behalf of AI systems. And Google Health describes the challenges in transitioning to clinical environments a system designed to detect diabetic eye disease. In research from the University of Bordeaux, researchers demonstrate the ability to give algorithms intrinsically-motivated goal exploration to enable them to search out interesting patterns in Lenia, an analog version of Conway's Game of Life. A review paper provides an overview of how neural networks sometimes attempt to "short circuit" learning. Peters, Janzing, and Schölkopf and MIT Press make Elements of Causal Inference available. The International Conference on Learning Representation makes its 2020 session available through a slick interface, covering the nearly 700 papers. And OpenAI releases Jukebox, an attempt to create music of a specified style, when given lyrics.

Andy and Dave discuss a white paper from the National Security Commission on AI, on Privacy and Ethics Recommendations for Computing Applications Developed to Mitigate COVID-19. The Office of the Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security issues a second point paper on lethal autonomous weapons systems, with AI, Human-Machine Interaction, and Autonomous Weapons. DARPA ... of a specified style, when given lyrics. /images/AI-Posters/AI_3_28.jpg Finding Lenia Announcements / News -   COVID-19 & AI NSCAI Releases White Paper on Privacy and Ethics Recommendations

ai with ai: A Mind Forever Voyaging Part 2

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OpenAI has trained an unsupervised language model that can perform basic reading comprehension, summarize text, answer questions, and generate coherent paragraphs; as Andy and Dave discuss, the bigger news came from OpenAI's decision to release a less-capable version of the GPT-2 model, "for the good of humanity," as one news site claimed. IBM's Project Debater lost a debate with champion debater Harish Natarajan, but more of the audience said Project Debater better enriched their knowledge on the topic. Princeton and Microsoft announce NAIL, an agent for playing general interactive fiction (such as the Zork series), and consisting of multiple Decision Modules for performing various tasks. Columbia University takes a step toward reconstructing speech directly from the brain's auditory cortex, by temporarily placing electrodes in patients and having them listen to spoken numbers. DARPA announces SAIL-ON, the Science of Artificial Intelligence and Learning for Open-world Novelty, in an attempt to help AI adapt to constantly changing conditions. DARPA's Systematizing Confidence in Open Research and Evidence (SCORE) promises $7.6M to the Center for Open Science, for leading the charge on reproducibility. The Animal-AI Olympics hopes to create a survival-of-the-fittest for AI approach to the animal kingdom. Facebook releases ELF OpenGo, an open-source implementation of DeepMind's AlphaZero. Neuroscientists from Case Western Reserve discover an entirely new form of neural communication that works through electrical fields and can function over gaps in severed tissues. The Nufffield Foundation and the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence released a report on the Ethical and Societal Implications of Algorithms, Data, and AI. Technology for Global Security and Center for Global Security and Research join forces to understand and manage risks to international security and warfare, as posed by AI-related tech. A short review in Science looks at brain circuitry and learning, and Andy pulls DeepMind's look at Neuroscience-inspired AI paper from 2017. Research examines engineering-based design methodology for embedding ethics in autonomous robots, while another paper assesses the local interpretability of machine learning methods. Jeff Erickson releases a textbook on Algorithms; Daniel Shiffman publishes The Nature of Code; and Jason Brownlee offers up Clever Algorithms – Nature-Inspired Programming Recipes. A video from This Week in Machine Learning and AI dissects the controversy surrounding OpenAI's GPT-2 model. And finally, two websites offer up faces of fictional people.

circuitry and learning, and Andy pulls DeepMind's look at Neuroscience-inspired AI paper from 2017. Research examines engineering-based design methodology for embedding ethics in autonomous robots, while ... Novelty, in an attempt to help AI adapt to constantly changing conditions. DARPA's Systematizing Confidence in Open Research and Evidence (SCORE) promises $7.6M to the Center for Open Science, for leading the charge on reproducibility. The Animal-AI Olympics hopes to create a survival-of-the-fittest for AI approach to the animal kingdom. Facebook releases ELF OpenGo, an open-source implementation