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ai with ai: The Quantum Menace: /our-media/podcasts/ai-with-ai/season-3/3-3; In news items, Microsoft wins bid for the Pentagon’s $10B Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract. DARPA’s Spectrum Collaboration Challenge (SC2), which aimed to create devices that work together to optimize spectrum use, names GatorWings (from the University of Florida) as the winner. A report from the Stanford University Institute for Human-Centered AI calls for the US Government to invest $120B in the nation’s AI ecosystem over the next 10 years. And CSET provides a translation of Russia’s National AI Strategy. In research, Google announces Quantum Supremacy, that is, they perform a calculation with Sycamore, their 53-qubit computer, taking 200 seconds to perform, that a classical computer “cannot” (saying that it would take 10,000 years). In response, IBM postulated that a classical computer could take advantage of hard drive space to do the calculation in a couple days. In reports, the Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) publishes an examination of China’s Access to Foreign AI Technology, particularly noting that China’s “copycat” reputation oversimplifies its indigenous science and technology capacity and ability to innovate. Geist and Blumenthal from RAND pen “Military Deception: AI’s Killer App” for War on the Rocks, in response to the National Security Commission on AI’s call for ideas.. Stuart Russell releases Human Compatible, where he describes his approach to avoiding the threat of superhuman AI destroying civilization, which includes inherent uncertainty about the human preferences that they are required to satisfy. For resources, Nikola Plesa provides a centralized list of the biggest datasets available for machine learning. And “Bosstown Dynamics” by Corridor Digital provides a humorous look at military robots.
ai with ai: Newton & the 3-Body Problem: /our-media/podcasts/ai-with-ai/season-3/3-2; Andy and Dave discuss the AI-related supplemental report to the President’s Budget Request. The California governor signs a bill banning facial recognition use by the state’s law enforcement agencies. The 2019 Association of the US Army meeting focuses on AI. A DoD panel discussion explores the Promise and Risk of the AI Revolution. And the 3rd Annual DoD AI Industry Day will be 13 November in Silver Spring, MD. Researchers at the University of Edinburgh, the University of Cambridge, and Leiden University announce using a deep neural network to solve the chaotic 3-body problem, providing accurate solutions up to 100 million times faster than a state-of-the-art solver. Research from MIT uses a convolutional neural network to recover or recreate probable ensembles of dimensionally collapsed information (such as a video collapsing to one single image). Kate Crawford and Meredith Whittaker take a look at 2019 and the Growing Pushback Against Harmful AI. Air University Press releases AI, China, Russia, and the Global Order, edited by Nicholas Wright, with contributions from numerous authors, including Elsa Kania and Sam Bendett. Michael Stumborg from CNA pens a response to the National Security Commission’s request for ideas, on AI’s Long Data Tail. Deisenroth, Faisal, and Ong make their Mathematics for Machine Learning available. Melanie Mitchell pens AI: A Guide for Thinking Humans. An article in the New Yorker by John Seabrook examines the role of AI/ML in writing, with The Next Word. And the Allen Institute for AI updates its Semantic Scholar with now more than 175 million scientific papers across even more fields of research.
ai with ai: JAICs on a Plane with a Cube of the Rubik: /our-media/podcasts/ai-with-ai/season-3/3-1; Welcome to Season 3.0! Andy and Dave discuss the AI in Advancement Advisory Council’s State of AI Advancement report, which takes a look at the impact of AI on roles within advancement. Researchers at Fudan and Changchun Institute of Optics announce a 500 MP camera (with associated cloud-powered AI) capable of identifying a face among tens of thousands. The U.S. National Science Foundation announces the National AI Research Institute, which anticipates approving $120M in grants next year. A recent solicitation from the Defense Innovation Unit seeks to understand trends in world events. And the JAIC has a new website. In research, OpenAI announces Dactyl, a robot hand capable of solving Rubik’s cube, as part of an effort to build a general purpose robot (transferring learning from simulation to the real world), and robust to perturbations such as broken fingers or intrusions by plush giraffes. Research accepted to ICLR 2020 demonstrates the application of deep learning to symbolic mathematics. Dan Gettinger of Bard College publishes The Drone Databook, cataloging the drones from 101 countries. The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace takes a look at the origins of AI Surveillance Technology in use around the globe. The Oliver Wyman Forum measures Global Cities’ AI Readiness, and Oxford Insights updates its Government AI Readiness Index. Arthur I Miller publishes the Artist in the Machine, while Marcus du Sautoy takes a look at The Creativity Code: Art and Innovation in the Age of AI. Lex Fridman and Gary Marcus have a discussion on AI. And Alexa will soon channel the voice of Samuel L Jackson.
ai with ai: The (Creepy) Aristobots (part 2): /our-media/podcasts/ai-with-ai/season-2/2.43b; This week, Microsoft Research and the University of Montreal show that machines can learn through interactive language by answering questions (question answering with interactive text, or QAit). The Allen Institute for AI’s Aristo system, a suite of eight solves, can pass (90%+) the New York 8th Grade regents science exams (for non-diagram, multiple-choice questions), and can exceed 83% on the 12th-grade exam, though Melanie Mitchell suggests the achievement may not be as profound as it seems. A “meta-research” paper from Milan and Klagenfurt takes a broader look at neural network research and highlights concerns of reproducibility (or lack thereof) as well as utility (or lack thereof, where simple heuristic methods can outperform the neural networks). From a workshop organized by Max Tegmark and Emilia Javorsky, a group of diverse authors produced a “possibility of a middle road” look at roadmapping a way ahead for Autonomous Weapons Systems. An opinion piece from Zachary Kallenborn on War on the Rocks looks at What If the US Military Neglects AI? A paper in Nature provides an overview of open-ended evolution, as a part of artificial life. Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis publish a book on Rebooting AI: Building AI We Can Trust. The 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics occurred at the end of July, and Kate Koidan provides a summary of the top trends. The IEEE ranks robot creepiness with the top 100 creepy robots. Booz Allen releases a documentary on the Dawn of Generation AI. And the Naval Facilities Engineering and Expeditionary Warfare Center (NAVFAC EXWC) will host an industry day conference on cyber, control systems, and machine learning in December.
ai with ai: The (Creepy) Aristobots (Part 1): /our-media/podcasts/ai-with-ai/season-2/2.43; Andy and Dave discuss the U.S. Air Force’s recently released AI strategy. NATO releases a draft report on the implications of AI for NATO forces. A report collects 2,602 uses of AI for social good. And California legislature bans facial recognition for policy body cameras. In research, OpenAI takes a multi-agent game of hide-and-seek to 11 and discovers emergent tool use as the hiders and seekers try to gain advantages. Research from the Freie Universitat Berlin samples equilibrium states of many-body systems using deep learning to speed up sampling calculations.
ai with ai: From A to Z: /our-media/podcasts/ai-with-ai/season-2/2.42; Two special guests join Andy and Dave for a discussion about research in AI and autonomy. First, Dr. Andrea Gilli is a researcher at the NATO Defense College in Rome, where he works on defense innovation, military transformation, and armed forces modernization. And second, Ms. Zoe Stanley-Lockman is a fellow at the Maritime Security Programme of the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies at the Rajartnam School of International Studies in Singapore, where she is researching, among other things, the roles of ethics in AI.
ai with ai: Ghost in the Mirror: /our-media/podcasts/ai-with-ai/season-2/2.41; Andy and Dave discuss research from DeepMind, University College London, and Oxford, that shows that human mental replay spontaneously reorganizes experience, implied by abstract knowledge, and which further suggests AI could use this approach to learn and improve. In other research, adversarial triggers cause natural language processing algorithms (such as GPT-2) to generate incorrect sentiment analysis, or to generate racist output (even in non-racial contexts). And researchers from Dalian, Peng Cheng, and City University of Hong Kong create a segmentation method for visual classifiers to identify and process mirrors and reflective surfaces, which may otherwise cause confusing results. FutureGrasp provides a report on an overview of State initiatives in AI. An article in Nature examines the global landscape of AI ethics guidelines. Patrick Walker pens War Without Oversight: Challenges to the Deployment of Autonomous Weapon Systems. Springer Nature publishes “the first research book generated using machine learning,” on lithium-ion batteries. Henrik Saetra publishes The Ghost in the Machine, on what it means to be human in the age of AI/ML. The Alife 2019 conference provides open access to its 2019 proceedings. And Mackmyra Whisky announces the world’s first AI-created whisky.
ai with ai: DARPAs Are Forever: /our-media/podcasts/ai-with-ai/season-2/2.40; Andy and Dave discuss the establishment of the Artificial Intelligence and Technology Office under the U.S. Department of Energy. DARPA announces Context Reasoning for Autonomous Teaming (CREATE), a new program to investigate teams between groups of systems that have limited centralized coordination. Defense One and Nextgov sponsored a one-day “Genius Machines” conference in Hawaii, where it was revealed that AI is being developed to predict Chinese and Russian movement in the Pacific. MIT Lincoln Lab releases a large data set for public safety, which includes images of flooding and other disasters. And a video appears to show a Tesla driver asleep in a moving car. Finally, Russia expert Sam Bendett joins Andy and Dave to discuss his latest article in Defense One, on the draft of the Russian AI strategy.
ai with ai: Nervana: In Silico: /our-media/podcasts/ai-with-ai/season-2/2.39; Andy and Dave discuss the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center's efforts to tackle deep fakes through DARPA's Media Forensics program, as well as the announcement that the JAIC's biggest project for FY20 will include "AI for maneuver and fires." Intel reveals its first AI chips, on the Nervana Neural Network Processor line, with one to train AI systems and another to handle inference. Cerebras Systems announces the world's largest chip, with 1.2 trillion transistors and 400,000 cores. A Russian Soyuz spacecraft docked with the International Space Station; it had Roscosmos's Skybot F-850 humanoid robot aboard. Researchers at Hong Kong University of S&T demonstrate an all-optical neural network for deep learning. Researchers at MIT and Tubingen identify four types of neuronal cells based on their electrical spiking activity. And a larger team of researchers, primarily based in China, unveil the Tianjic chip, as a hybrid that combines computer science (with a binary focus) with neuroscience (with a neural burst and spike focus) on one chip. In the book of the week, K. Eric Drexler of Oxford publishes a large report on Reframing Superintelligence. An article from Melanie Mitchel in Popular Computing in 1985 seems hardly out of place in 2019 with its look at what people were predicting for the future. A report from PAX surveys the tech sector's stance on lethal autonomous weapons. The Intelligence Community Studies Board releases the proceedings of a workshop on Robust Machine Learning Algorithms and Systems for Detection and Mitigation of Adversarial Attacks and Anomalies. Jonathan Clifford pens a piece in War on the Rocks on how "AI will change war, but not in the way you think." In a video, Elon Musk and Jack Ma discuss AI at the World AI Conference in Shanghai. And the Australian Defence College will host a seminar on Science Fiction and the Future of War on 3 October 2019.
ai with ai: In the Year 20XX: 100th Episode Celebration!: /our-media/podcasts/ai-with-ai/season-2/2.38; Happy 100 th Episode to AI with AI! Andy and Dave celebrate the 100th episode of the AI with AI podcast, starting with a new theme song, inspired by the Mega Man series of games. Andy and Dave take the time to look at the past two years of covering AI news and research, including how the podcast has grown from the first season to the second season. They also take a look back at some of the recurring themes and favorite topics, including GPT2 and the Lottery Ticket hypothesis, among many others; they also look forward to (hopefully!) all the latest and greatest news to come. Throughout this episode, we hear from listeners, supporters, and colleagues who have appeared on the podcast. Here’s to another 100, and thanks for listening!

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