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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.

Spending Plan Announcements / News - "Just" AI IBM Is Dropping All Facial Recognition Research and Development Announcement IBM CEO Letter to Congress NIST Study "Gender Shades ... 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

ai with ai: For Your AIs Only

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Russia expert Sam Bendett joins Andy and Dave for a discussion and update on Russia’s latest developments and efforts in AI and autonomy. The group discusses a 30 May meeting, in which Russian President Vladimir Putin outlined the national AI priorities; the Russian AI strategy, originally expected in June, is now expected in the June-to-October timeframe. They also discuss the growing AI infrastructure, and the opening of AI centers across the country, with a mindset similar to a “startup culture,” with Russian AI developers getting international recognition. The group touches on relations between Russia and China, particularly in the wake of the Huawei issues. The “Army-2019” military expo in June should also provide useful insights about the Russian military development and employment of AI and related capabilities.

infrastructure, and the opening of AI centers across the country, with a mindset similar to a “startup culture,” with Russian AI developers getting international recognition. The group touches on relations between Russia and China, particularly in the wake of the Huawei issues. The “Army-2019” military expo in June should also provide useful insights about the Russian military development

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 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 ... /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: The One about ‘Bots…

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“Bots” reign supreme in this week’s episode, though Andy and Dave start the discussion NIST’s RFI on the development of technical standards for AI. A Harvard Medical School project demonstrates a catheter that can autonomously move inside a live, beating pig’s heart. Zipline uses medical delivery drones in Rwanda. University of Maryland researchers demonstrate drone delivery of a kidney for transplant. NASA tests a CACADA swarm and is also investigating Marsbees. And Starship robo-couriers deliver food to students at GMU. In research from Berkeley, a robot learns to use improvised tools to complete tasks, including those with physical cause-and-effect relationships. Researchers at MIT, MIT-IBM Watson, and DeepMind create the Neuro-Symbolic Concept Learner (NSCL), which uses a hybrid connectionist/symbolic approach, and seems to be a “true” AI implementation of Winograd’s SHRDLU system from the 60s. Research from Tsinghua University and Google demonstrates Neural Logic Machines, a neural-symbolic architecture for both inductive learning and logic reasoning. Two papers compare logistic regression with machine learning methods for clinical predictions; one shows no benefit of one method over the other, while the other claims better performance with neural network methods (although Andy and Dave wonder whether this statement is true, given the error bars in the results). Algorithm Watch publishes a Global Inventory of AI Ethics Guidelines. Times Higher Education (THE) and Microsoft release a survey on AI of more than 100 AI experts and university leaders. The Department of Information Technology at the University of Uppsala in Sweden has made its lecture notes for a statistical machine learning course available. The Santa Fe Institute reprints a classic collection of essays from its Founding Workshops. Robert Kranekg pens a story about an Angry Engineer. And the OpenAI Robotics Symposium 2019 releases the full video proceedings online.

“Bots” reign supreme in this week’s episode, though Andy and Dave start the discussion NIST’s RFI on the development of technical standards for AI. A Harvard Medical School project demonstrates ... /AI_2_28.jpg The One about ‘Bots… News – Mostly Bots, Bots, and more Bots NIST Releases RFI on the Development of Technical Standards for AI Workshop Announcement A robotic catheter has ... Seventh International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2019) Will be held May 6 – 9, in New Orleans. Schedule Accepted papers   (includes links to pdfs) ContactName

ai with ai: The Whirly Bird Gets the Drone

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Andy and Dave discuss an online essay by Tim Dutton, which summarizes the AI strategies that nations have published in the last year and a half. Sentient Investment Management announces plans to liquidate its hedge fund that used AI to forecast investment strategies. IBM spearheads an effort to create standards for AI developers to demonstrate the fairness of their AI algorithms, through a Supplier’s Declaration of Conformity. Google announces an Unrestricted Adversarial Examples Challenge, with “birds versus bicycles,” where applicants can either submit a defender (an image classifier that will resist adversarial attacks) or submit an attacker (an adversarial attack that attempts to make the defender declare a confident, incorrect answer). The Drone Racing League announces a new competition for teams developing AI pilots for drone racing.  And DARPA announces research that has allowed a paralyzed man to send (and receive) signals for three drones simultaneously, through a surgically-implanted microchip in the brain.

NExt-Generation Nonsurgical Neurotechnology (N3) – slides Technical paper (overview of DARPA BCI technology from 2014):   DARPA-funded efforts in the development of novel brain-computer interface technologies Upcoming conference - ANTS 2018, October 29-31, 2018,   11 th   International Conference on Swarm Intelligence, Rome, Italy ContactName /*/Contact/ContactName ContactTitle

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.

) established Pentagon, Intel Agencies Set Up New AI Joint Office Algorithmic Warfare: Pentagon Eyeing AI Center for Tech Development (May 29)   Tesla that crashed into police car ...   - 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 ... on software development Related:   DeepCoder: Learning to Write Programs Neural Sketch Learning for Conditional Program Generation VIDEO (1.2 hrs)   MIT AGI: Life 3.0 , discussion w/Max

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 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 ... Services. The Top Officials Exercises we supported in 2002 and 2004 were shaped by 9/11 and the terrorist threats our nation faced at the time. For FEMA, we supported the development

cna talks: Civilian Harm Mitigation is a Moral Imperative and a Strategic Priority

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The DOD Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response Action Plan (CHMR-AP) represents a significant step forward for global efforts to reduce civilian harm. The plan recognizes that reducing civilian harm is not just a moral imperative but a strategic priority. It lays out concrete steps that the Department of Defense can take to mitigate civilian harm caused by its operations.     Larry Lewis, Marla Keenan, and Sabrina Verleysen join John Stimpson in this episode. They discuss the CHMR-AP and the decades of work on civilian harm mitigation that made it possible. 

has conducted high-level advocacy with international and regional organizations, including the United Nations, African Union, and NATO. She formerly led all international programs for the Center ... Development and brings expertise in government relations and Indonesian civilian-military relations. She supports the CHM portfolio as an analyst, builds partnerships, and convenes interagency

cna talks: Cybersecurity Futures 2025

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Liza Cordeiro hosts a special episode of CNA Talks with UC Berkeley Professor Steve Weber and CNA analyst Dawn Thomas discussing the Cybersecurity Futures 2025 project. Through a series of cybersecurity scenarios, this report helps decision-makers anticipate how cybersecurity challenges will evolve and understand how peers in different parts of the world think about those challenges. Steve and Dawn share their experiences gathering data for this project from participants all over the world, and lay out which of the project’s scenarios they found most interesting.

and global political economy issues relating to competitiveness. Weber has served as special consultant to the president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, has held academic fellowships with the Council on Foreign Relations and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and was director of the Institute of International Studies at UC Berkeley from 2003 to 2009