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ai with ai: D/Generative

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In COVID-related news, Nature publishes a review of COVID-19 AI tools, emphasizing that most tools are still in development and largely unproven. Inserm selects Expert System's AI support for its COVID-19 research and its group of over 10,000 researchers. Researchers provide in open-source a large annotated dataset of CT and X-ray images from COVID-19 patients, called the BIMCV COVID-19+. In regular AI news, Microsoft announces that it will not sell its facial recognition technology to police departments in the US until a national law is in place to help govern its use. On that note, a new federal bill in development, the Justice in Policing Act, contains policy guidelines on the use and limitations of facial recognition technology for police. OpenAI releases a commercial product API for accessing its AI models, to include the 175B parameter GPT-3, although other researchers are expressing concern over the lack of accountability on bias. Facebook announces the winner of its Deepfake Challenge, where the winning model achieved at 65% accuracy on a set of 10,000 previously unseen clips. And Boston Dynamics makes its robot dog, Spot, available for sale at $74,500 plus tax. In research, a team at Duke University introduces PULSE, which sharpens blurry images, in essence by exploring the space of plausible high-res images that could result in the blurry image. The report of the week comes from Perry World House, who published the results of a Policy Roundtable on AI hosted last fall. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute and the International Committee of the Red Cross offer their take on Limits on Autonomy in Weapon Systems, by identifying the practical elements of human control. The review of the week from University of Waterloo provides an overview of text detection and recognition in the wild. MacroPolo provides a snapshot of Global AI Talent, using participants from the 2019 NeurIPS. Spring-Verlag provides yet another free text, from Eiben and Smith, on an Introduction to Evolutionary Computing. And NavyCon 2020 provides brief snapshots on "navies, science fiction, and great power competition" from a host of participants.

(includes using own images) Andy and Dave Pulsed Reports of the Week Policy Roundtable: Artificial Intelligence and International Security Limits on Autonomy in Weapon Systems:   Identifying ... of the week comes from Perry World House, who published the results of a Policy Roundtable on AI hosted last fall. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute and the International Committee

ai with ai: Attack of the Clouds

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Andy and Dave discuss OpenAI’s update to an earlier summary of how computational resources have increased to reach each new AI breakthrough. The National Transportation Safety Board releases its report on the 2018 deadly Uber self-driving vehicle crash. Nasdaq has enlisted the aid of machine learning to provide additional security to stock trades. Researchers use a GAN to GANalyze the aspects of “memorable” pictures, while other researchers use a GAN (SinGAN) to generate new pictures from a single image. Over 20 authors come together to publish a paper on tackling climate change with machine learning. Francois Chollet publishes The Measure of Intelligence. Horace He has provided OpenReviewExplorer to include the International Conference on Learning Representations 2020. And FRONTLINE examines the promise and perils of AI.

Andy and Dave discuss OpenAI’s update to an earlier summary of how computational resources have increased to reach each new AI breakthrough. The National Transportation Safety Board releases its report on the 2018 deadly Uber self-driving vehicle crash. Nasdaq has enlisted the aid of machine learning to provide additional security to stock trades. Researchers use a GAN to GANalyze the aspects ... with machine learning. Francois Chollet publishes The Measure of Intelligence. Horace He has provided OpenReviewExplorer to include the International Conference on Learning Representations 2020. And FRONTLINE

ai with ai: SinGAN in the Rain

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Andy and Dave discuss OpenAI’s update to an earlier summary of how computational resources have increased to reach each new AI breakthrough. The National Transportation Safety Board releases its report on the 2018 deadly Uber self-driving vehicle crash. Nasdaq has enlisted the aid of machine learning to provide additional security to stock trades. Researchers use a GAN to GANalyze the aspects of “memorable” pictures, while other researchers use a GAN (SinGAN) to generate new pictures from a single image. Over 20 authors come together to publish a paper on tackling climate change with machine learning. Francois Chollet publishes The Measure of Intelligence. Horace He has provided OpenReviewExplorer to include the International Conference on Learning Representations 2020. And FRONTLINE examines the promise and perils of AI.

report on the 2018 deadly Uber self-driving vehicle crash. Nasdaq has enlisted the aid of machine learning to provide additional security to stock trades. Researchers use a GAN to GANalyze the aspects ... with machine learning. Francois Chollet publishes The Measure of Intelligence. Horace He has provided OpenReviewExplorer to include the International Conference on Learning Representations 2020. And FRONTLINE ... AgI Resource of the Week OpenReviewExplorer   for the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2020) Videos of the Week FRONTLINE investigates promise and perils of AI

ai with ai: The Shadow of What Is Going to Be (Part 2)

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Continuing in research, Andy and Dave discuss research from Imperial College and the Samsung AI Centre, which can take a single image of any face, and create realistic speech-driven facial animations, using a GAN. From the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, researchers create an algorithm that can learn individual styles of conversational gestures and then produce plausible gestures to accompany other audio input. And research in Nature examines 3.3 million material-science abstracts with unsupervised word embeddings to capture “latent knowledge.” The survey paper of the week looks at the reproducibility of machine learning in health-related fields and finds health consistently lags behind other subfields of machine learning. Safety First for Automated Driving identifies the guiding principles for autonomous cars to be safe, with input from 11 authors; among the information, the report finds that verification and validation of the systems are still lacking in the existing literature. The Berkman Klein Center at Harvard compiles an infographic on all of the published AI “principles” from governments, industry, and other organizations. The “classic paper” of the week comes from Alan Turing’s 1948 paper on “Intelligent Machinery.” The 36th International Conference on Machine Learning releases over 150 videos from its June session. CognitionX 2019 releases a video on managing security in an insecure world. Manlio de Domenico and Hiroki Sayama (and many others!) provide an interactive site for explaining and exploring complexity. Wendy Anderson and August Cole explore what war in the late 2020s might look like for the Secretary of Defense, in The Secretary of Hyperwar. And for click-bait of the week, astrophysicists get “baffled” by their simulation of the universe using AI.

” of the week comes from Alan Turing’s 1948 paper on “Intelligent Machinery.” The 36th International Conference on Machine Learning releases over 150 videos from its June session. CognitionX 2019 releases a video on managing security in an insecure world. Manlio de Domenico and Hiroki Sayama (and many others!) provide an interactive site for explaining and exploring complexity. Wendy Anderson ... , Indirect Encodings, and Open-Ended Algorithms  (2.5 hr) video Slides All (150+) videos from ICML 2019 Managing Security in an Insecure World: Balancing the Need For Privacy

ai with ai: 52 Views of HOListic Imagination

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In news items, Andy and Dave discuss China’s call for international cooperation on a code of ethics for AI. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) unveils the first intergovernmental standards for AI policies, with support from 42 countries. The US Army has invited the design of prototypes for the Next-Generation Squad Weapon, which may include wind-sensing and even facial-recognition technology. DARPA’s Spectrum Collaboration Challenge (SC2) presents an essay at IEEE Spectrum, which describes the challenges of making the most out of an increasingly crowded electromagnetic spectrum, including running contests for better spectrum management, and using Colosseum as the testing ground. Google announces the ‘AI Workshop,’ which offers early access to AI capabilities and experiments. In research, Google DeepMind announces an AI that has achieved human-level performance in Quake III Arena Capture the Flag mode; among other things, human players rated the AI as “more collaborative than other humans” (though had mixed reaction to the AI as their teammates). Google Research presents HOList, an environment for machine learning of higher-order theorem proving. Research from Oxford University creates a model for human-like machine thinking by mimicking the prefrontal cortex for language-guided imagination. A paper from Jeff Cline at Uber AI Labs suggests a different approach to Artificial General Intelligence, by means of AI-generating algorithms that learn how to produce AgI. MacroPolo produces a series of 6 charts on Chinese AI talent. CBInsights compiles the view of 52 “experts” on “How AI Will Go Out of Control.” Blum, Kopcroft, Kannan, and Microsoft release Foundations of Data Science; Hutter, Kotthoff, Vanschoren, and Springer-Verlag make Automated Machine Learning available. The Purdue Symposium on Ethics, Technology, and the Future of War and Security release a video on the Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of Autonomy and AI in Warfare. The University of Colorado Boulder creates an Index of Complex Networks (ICON). And Alexander Reben creates a repository of 1 million fake AI-generated faces.

2-31 In news items, Andy and Dave discuss China’s call for international cooperation on a code of ethics for AI. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) unveils the first ... Automated Machine Learning available. The Purdue Symposium on Ethics, Technology, and the Future of War and Security release a video on the Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of Autonomy and AI ... /AI_2_31.jpg 52 Views of HOListic Imagination News China releases a code of ethics for AI, Calls For International Cooperation 42 Countries Agree to International Principles for Artificial Intelligence

ai with ai: Detective Centaur and the Curse of Footstep Awareness

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Andy and Dave didn’t have time to do a short podcast this week, so they did a long one instead. In breaking news, they discuss the establishment of the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC), yet another-Tesla autopilot crash, Geurts defending the decision to dissolve the Navy’s Unmanned Systems Office, and Germany published a paper that describes its stance on autonomy in weapon systems. Then, Andy and Dave discuss DeepMind’s approach to using YouTube videos to train an AI to learn “hard exploration games” (with sparse rewards). In another “centaur” example, facial recognition experts form best when combined with an AI. University of Manchester researchers announce a new footstep-recognition AI system, but Dave pulls a Linus and has a fit of “footstep awareness.” In other recent reports, Andy and Dave discuss another example of biomimicry, where researchers at ETH Zurich have modeled the schooling behavior of fish. And in brain-computer interface research, a noninvasive BCI system co-trained with tetraplegics to control avatars in a racing game. Finally, they round out the discussion with a mention of ZAC Inc and its purported general AI, a book on How People and Machines are Smarter Together, and a video on deep reinforcement learning.

Systems Roadmap Summary (May 23)   Autonomy in Weapon Systems: The Military Application of Artificial Intelligence as a Litmus Test for Germany’s New Foreign and Security Policy TOPICS (May ...   - This study measures face identification accuracy for an international group of professional forensic facial examiners working under circumstances that apply in real world casework. (SfootBD

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.

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 ... International Conference on Learning Representations ICLR 2018 Conference Track - all papers DeepMind papers at ICLR 2018 (April 26) Congressional Research Service (CRS) report:   Artificial Intelligence and National Security (April 23) Uber AI Labs,   Accelerating Deep Neuroevolution: Train Atari in Hours on a Single Personal Computer Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, special issue

CNA Analysts Share How 9/11 Impacted Their Careers

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Eight CNA analysts share the stories of how the events of September 11, 2001, shaped their careers.

security protection specialist for the U.S. Agency for International Development. In the years since, my federal and academic careers shifted toward East Asia, and I became an analyst with CNA’s Indo-Pacific ... of that day and how it shaped their careers as national security professionals. In this post, we present eight stories of how the events of that day shaped the careers of these analysts. Megan Katt ... of enlisting in the military, I decided to find another way to serve and support my country. The next semester, I enrolled in my first international affairs class. I changed my minor to political science

cna talks: U.S. Withdrawal From Syria

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Following the administration’s December 2018 announcement that U.S. forces would withdraw from Syria, CNA experts Michael Kofman and David Wallsh discuss how this will affect the state of play between U.S. allies and adversaries in the region. They question whether the U.S. has in fact defeated ISIS in Syria, and discuss how the withdrawal may leave the area vulnerable to a resurgence and to ongoing conflict between Turkey and the Kurdish fighters, both allies of the U.S. Kofman posits that the withdrawal will further Russian interests, while Wallsh adds that it may also play a role in a war of attrition between Iran and Israel.

that it may also play a role in a war of attrition between Iran and Israel. U.S. Withdrawal From Syria Biographies David Wallsh   is an expert in Middle East affairs and international security issues, including alliance politics, security cooperation and building partner capacity. Prior to joining CNA, Wallsh served as an Expert Advisor for Middle East security issues in the Office of the Secretary ... on Russia, Eurasia and Pakistan. His research focuses on security issues in Russia and the former Soviet Union, specializing in defense and military analysis. Kofman has advised senior military

cna talks: NSS Event: Nuclear Cooperation with Strategic Competitors

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In this bonus episode of CNA Talks, we are bringing you the recording of CNA’s recent National Security Seminar, “Nuclear Cooperation with Strategic Competitors,” which was held on March 21, 2023. The event featured panelists Timothy McDonnell and Rose Gottemoeller. McDonnell is the author of a recent CNA publication entitled, “Working with the Adversary: Great Power Cooperation and Nuclear Risk Management.” This report uses archival sources to examine three historical cases of great power nuclear cooperation, distilling lessons and insights for practitioners. During the event Dr. McDonnell shared his findings and then discussed them with Gottemoeller, a seasoned arms control practitioner, about its findings and implications. The event was moderated by CNA’s Mary Chesnut.  

for International Security and Cooperation, and Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University; former Deputy Secretary General, NATO; former Under Secretary for Arms Control & International Security ... NSS Event: Nuclear Cooperation with Strategic Competitors In this bonus episode of CNA Talks, we are bringing you the recording of CNA’s recent National Security Seminar, “Nuclear Cooperation with Strategic Competitors,” which was held on March 21, 2023. The event featured panelists Timothy McDonnell and Rose Gottemoeller. McDonnell is the author of a recent CNA publication entitled, “Working