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ai with ai: Xenophobe
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The U.S. Government announces the restriction of the sale outside of the U.S. of AI for satellite image analysis. Baidu beats out Google and Microsoft for language “understanding” with its model ERNIE, which uses a technique that it developed specifically for the Chinese language. Samsung unveils NEON, its humanoid AI avatars. The U.S. Department of Defense stands up a counter-unmanned aerial system office. And GoogleAI publishes an AI system for breast cancer screening, but meets with some Twitter (and Wired) backlash on solving the “wrong problem.” Researchers at University of Vermont, the Allen Discovery Center/Tufts, and Wyss Institute/Harvard introduce the world’s “first living robots,” xenobots, constructed from skin and muscle cells of frogs (from designs made with evolutionary algorithms). RAND releases a report on an assessment and recommendations of the DOD’s posture for AI. AI for social good (AI4SG) releases its survey of research and publications on beneficial applications of AI. Daniel Dennett explores the question of whether HAL committed murder, in a classic 1996 essay. From the Bengio and Marcus debate, both references Daniel Kahneman’s “Thinking, Fast and Slow.” And Robert Downey Jr. hosts a YouTube series on The Age of AI.
ai with ai: Fakers of the Lost Architecture
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Andy and Dave discuss a new White House proposal on Principles for AI Regulation. A NIST study examines the effects of race, age, and sex on recognition software and identifies a variety of troubling issues. Facebook removes hundreds of accounts with AI-generated fake profile photos, and Facebook also bans the posting of deepfake videos (with some caveats). And Finland is making its online AI course available for the rest of the world. In research, Uber AI Labs offers a novel approach to accelerating neural architectural search by learning to generate synthetic training data; but the scientific community doesn’t think the findings are quite yet ready for publishing. Researchers at Korea University create an Evolvable Neural Unit (ENU) as a way to approximate the function of an individual neuron and synapse. And researchers at Charite in Berlin show that a single human biological neuron can compute XOR, previously thought not possible. Human-Centered AI at Standard University releases 2019 Annual Report on its AI Index, examining various trends and research in AI in 2019. The Center for a New American Security releases its full report on A Blueprint for Action in AI. Rafael Irizarry provides an Introduction to Data Science. And the video of the week is the debate between Yoshua Bengio and Gary Marcus on the current and future state of research in AI.
ai with ai: Hit the Wall: Do Not Play GO (Part II)
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In research, Andy and Dave discuss a new idea from Schmidhuber, which introduces Upside-Down reinforcement learning, where no value functions or policy search are necessary, essentially transforming reinforcement learning into a form of supervised learning. Research from OpenAI demonstrates a “double-descent” inherent in deep learning tasks, where performance initially gets worse and then gets better as the model increases in size. Tortoise Media provides yet-another-AI-index, but with a nifty GUI for exploration. August Cole explores a future conflict with Arctic Night. And Richard Feynman provides thoughts (from 1985) on whether machines will be able to think.
ai with ai: Hit the Wall: Do Not Play GO (Part I)
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Andy and Dave discuss Lee Sodol’s announcement that he is quitting playing Go because AI “cannot be defeated.” Facebook’s Head of AI says the field will soon “hit the wall” (or does he?). A human beats an AI-powered drone during the Drone Racing League’s latest competition. A Boston Dynamics robot dog has joined a Massachusetts bomb squad. And a new US federal bill would constrain some police use of facial recognition tools. A report from CNAS on the American AI Century provides a Blueprint for Action on how to achieve national AI strategy objectives.
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.
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.
ai with ai: 20,000 Layers Under the CNN
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Andy and Dave discuss the full release of the algorithm that originally had to be locked up for the safety of humanity (GPT-2). NATO releases its final reports on the implications of AI for NATO’s Armed Forces. The US Army Research Lab wraps up a series of events on its efforts in robotics collaborative technology. The UAE announces the world’s first graduates level AI University opening in September 2020. And John Carmack announces he will step down at CTO of Oculus to tackle the challenge of artificial general intelligence, as a Victorian Gentleman Scientist. In research, two independent research groups introduce adversarial T-shirts. A report examines the taxonomy of real faults in deep learning systems. Krohn, Deyleveld, and Bassens publish Deep Learning Illustrated. The Nov/Dec issue of MIT Technology Review features a variety of AI and related stories. And Manuel Blum of CMU discusses Towards a Conscious AI: A Computer Architecture Inspired by Neuroscience.
ai with ai: Some Superintelligent Assembly Required
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In news, the Defense Innovation Board releases AI Principles: Recommendations on the Ethical Use of AI by the Department of Defense. The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s National Cybersecurity Center of Excellent releases a draft for public comment on adversarial machine learning, which includes an in-depth taxonomy on the possibilities. Google adds BERT to its search algorithm, with its capability for bidirectional representations, in an attempt to “let go of some of your keyword-ese.” In research, Stanford University and Google demonstrate a method for explaining how image classifiers make their decisions, with Automatic Concept-based Explanations (ACE) that extra visual concepts such as colors and textures, or objects and parts. And GoogleAI, Stanford, and Columbia researchers teach a robot arm the concept of assembling objects, with Form2Fit, which is also capable of generalizing its learning to new objects and tasks. Danielle Tarraf pens the latest response to the National Security Commission on AI’s call for ideas, with Our Future Lies in Making AI Robust and Verifiable. Jure Leskovec, Anand Rajaraman, and Jeff Ullman make their second edition of Mining of Massive Datasets available. The Defense Innovation Board posts a video of its public meeting from 31 October at Georgetown University. Maciej Ceglowski’s “Superintelligence: the idea that eats smart people” takes a look at the arguments against superintelligence as a risk to humanity.
ai with ai: When You Wish Upon an AlphaStar
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In the news, Andy and Dave discuss the interim report from the National Security Commission on AI. DARPA’s new OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics (OFFSET) program takes a look at swarm behavior. And DARPA picks the teams for its virtual Air Combat Competition (ACE). In research, DeepMind’s AlphaStar beats 99.8% of human games at StarCraft. A report on Mosaic Warfare looks at restoring the military competitiveness of US forces. Daniel Egel and Eric Robinson pen the latest response to the NSCAI call for ideas, examining the likely evolution, not revolution, of AI in Irregular Warfare. The Promise of AI: Reckoning and Judgment, by Brian Cantwell Smith, rounds out Andy’s pick for a trio of recent, interesting books on AI, taking a philosophical look at the topic. And mosaic warfare and multi-domain battle make the video of the week.
ai with ai: Weirder Things
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Facebook announces the Deepfake Detection Challenge, a rolling contest to develop technology to detect deepfakes. The US Senate passes the Deepfake Report Act, bipartisan legislation to understand the risks posed by deepfake videos. And US Representatives Hurd and Kelly announced a new initiative to develop a bipartisan national AI strategy with the Bipartisan Policy Center. In research, AI allows a paralyzed person to “handwrite” using his mind. From the University of Grenoble, a paralyzed man is able to walk using a brain-controlled exoskeleton. From the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, researchers use a neural network to reconstruct human thoughts from brain waves in real-time using electroencephalography. A report from Elsa Kania and Sam Bendett looks at technology collaborations between Russia and China in A New Sino-Russian High-Tech Partnership. In another response to the National Security Commission on AI, Margarita Konaev publishes With AI, We’ll See Faster Fights, But Longer Wars on the War on the Rocks. James, Witten, Hastie, and Tibshirani release An Introduction to Statistical Learning. Open Science Framework makes THINGS available, an object concept and object image database of nearly 14 GB, over 1800 object concepts and more than 26,000 naturalistic object images. And finally, Janelle Shane explains why the danger of AI is Weirder Than You Think.