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ai with ai: AstroBees in Your BonNAT

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Andy and Dave discuss the Department of Energy’s attempt to create the world’s longest acronym, with DIFFERENTIATE (Design Intelligence for Formidable Energy Reduction Engendering Numerous Totally Impactful Advanced Technology Enhancements), and to accelerate the incorporation of ML into energy technology and product design. Google cancels its AI ethics board after thousands of employees sign a petition calling for the removal of one member with anti-LGBTQ and anti-immigrant views. NASA unveils the Astrobees, one-foot cube robots that will work autonomously on the International Space Station to check inventory and monitor noise levels, among other things. And Microsoft partners with the French online education platform OpenClasrooms to train and recruit promising students in AI. Research from the Eindhoven University of Technology and the University of Trento takes a biologically “inspired” approach to neural net learning, through Neuron Elevation Traces (NATs), that allow additional data storage in each synapse; the result appears to increase the plasticity of the synapses. A mathematical reasoning model from DeepMind can solve some arithmetic, algebra, and probability problems, though sometimes gets simple calculations incorrect (such as 1 + 1 + … + 1, for n>=7). And research creates a musculoskeletal system that can use muscle activation to simulate movement and control. A report from Element AI examines the Global AI Talent distributions in 2019, to include (perhaps not surprisingly) the observation that the supply of top-tier AI talent does not meet the demand. A paper in Nature Reviews Physics surveys the physics of brain network structure, function, and control. A short sci-fi story from Jeffrey Ford describes The Seventh Expression of the Robot General. And Andy highlights a video from 1961 on The Thinking Machine.

problems, though sometimes gets simple calculations incorrect (such as 1 + 1 + … + 1, for n>=7). And research creates a musculoskeletal system that can use muscle activation to simulate movement and control ... Project homepage (w/ mathematics dataset) Scalable Muscle-Actuated Human Simulation and Control Video demo (7 min) Technical paper Report of the Week Global AI Talent Report

ai with ai: Insights Into Russian Developments in AI and Unmanned Systems

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Andy and Dave welcome   Sam Bendett , a research analyst for CNA's Center for Strategic Studies, where he is a member of the Russia Studies Program. His work involves Russian defense and security technology and developments, Russian geopolitical influence in the former Soviet states, as well as Russian unmanned systems development, Russian naval capabilities and Russian decision-making calculus during military crises. Sam is in our studio to discuss recent Russian developments in AI and unmanned systems, and to preview an upcoming Defense One summit called " Genius Machines ," which he will be speaking at on March 7.

will be speaking at on March 7. Insights Into Russian Developments in AI and Unmanned Systems RELATED ARTICLES Russia Is Poised to Surprise the US in Battlefield Robotics Red Robots Rising ... Close the Gap with America or Israel? UPCOMING EVENT Defense One Event: Genius Machines (March 7, 2018) ContactName /*/Contact/ContactName ContactTitle /*/Contact/JobTitle

China’s Gaza Diplomacy Takes a Page from Its Ukraine Playbook

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China claims it can mediate between Israel and Palestinians, but as with Russia-Ukraine, Beijing has clearly picked one side and lost diplomatic credibility.

Program . China’s response to the October 7 terrorist attack by Hamas against Israel, and the ensuing conflict in Gaza, shows considerable continuity with Chinese diplomacy on Ukraine—and shares many ... , the Chinese government never even mentioned the brutal October 7 terrorist attack by Hamas against Israel that precipitated the current conflict in Gaza. (China does not officially designate Hamas ... for their own departures from the country—at a cost of at least $1,000 each. Prior to the Hamas attack on October 7, Israel and China had been developing economic ties, especially in technology, though

ai with ai: There are FOUR ELEPHANTS!

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Andy and Dave discuss the latest developments in OpenAI’s AI team that competed against human players in Dota 2, a team-based tower defense game. Researchers published a method for probing Atari agents to understand where the agents were focusing when learning to play games (and to understand why they are good at games like Space Invaders, but not at Ms. Pac-Man). A DeepMind AI can match health experts when spotting eye diseases from optical coherence tomography (OCT) scans; it uses two networks to segment the problems, which also allows a way for the AI to indicate which portion of the scans prompted the diagnosis. Research from Germany and the UK showed that children may be especially vulnerable to peer pressure from robots; the experiments replicated Asch’s social experiments from the 1950s, but interestingly adults did not show the same vulnerability to robot peer pressure. Research from Rosenfeld, Zemel, and Tsotsos showed that “minor” perturbations in images (such as shifting the location of an elephant) can cause misclassifications to occur, again highlighting the potential for failures in image classifiers. Andy recommends “The Seven Tools of Causal Inference with Reflections on Machine Learning” by Pearl; Algorithms for Reinforcement Learning by Szepesvari is available online; Robin Sloan has a novel, Sourdough, with much use of AI and robots; Wolfram has an interview on the computational universe; a new documentary on AI look at the life and role of Geoffrey Hinton, and Josh Tenenbaum examines the issues of “Growing a Mind in a Machine.”

Dota-2 AI: (Aug 23) Pro-‘Dota 2’ Players Fend off Elon Musk-Backed AI Bots—for Now (Aug 7)   Bots just beat human pros at ‘Dota 2’ and it wasn’t even much of a contest (Aug 7) OpenAI Bots

The East and South China Seas: One Sea, Near Seas, Whose Seas?

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China sees the East and South China Seas as its unified “near seas.” Other nations in the region dispute that, noting distinct differences between the seas.

grounds that support the economic growth and food security of East and Southeast Asian countries. According to one estimate, the value of these fisheries is over $7 billion in the East China Sea

What Suicide Data for Public Safety Officers Tell Us

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The first study of a comprehensive data collection effort on suicides by police and correctional officers shows trends, suggests opportunities for prevention.

to be seeking any kind of help. Approximately 17 percent of officers sought assistance for PTSD, and 7 percent sought any form of mental health treatment. CNA has previously explored deterrents to seeking

All In on Africa

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Kaia Haney examines the Biden Administration’s recent diplomacy in Africa and how it ties into strategic competition on the continent.

billion global initiative to support female African entrepreneurs and a promise to invest $7 billion in the private sector to help boost food production. This is in line with the $55 billion Biden

Xi Jinping’s Vision of a Resilient China

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Elizabeth Wishnick examines President Xi Jinping’s rhetoric regarding China’s national challenges including COVID-19, and Russia’s war in Ukraine.

percent of the world’s population, but only 6.6 percent of the world’s water resources and 7 percent of arable land globally. Only 12 per cent of China’s land can be used for agriculture

Beijing’s COVID-19 Policies Are Changing

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James Bellacqua examines how Beijing has adjusted its COVID-19 strategy in the wake of the nationwide protests, and what challenges the country still faces in confronting the pandemic.

of Sun’s remarks, there has been a discernible shift in PRC public messaging pertaining to the country’s efforts to combat the spread of COVID-19. On 7 December, the PRC State Council announced ten new

Tonga Aid

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Brian Waidelich examines what we can learn about the military capabilities of the U.S. and China from their aid delivery to Tonga following a devastating volcano.

exchanges amid “great power” or “strategic” competition. Tonga will likely require more help in the near future, as on February 7, the island kingdom reported its first COVID cases . Whether