AI with AI: Artificial Intelligence with Andy Ilachinski
232 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsAI with AI explores the latest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence and autonomy, and discusses the technological and military implications. Join Andy Ilachinski and David Broyles as they explain the latest developments in this rapidly evolving field.
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D/Generative
June 26, 2020 14:42 - 35 minutes - 48.3 MBIn 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 polic...
Oura-boros
June 19, 2020 13:00 - 33 minutes - 45.7 MBIn 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...
The GPT Blob
June 12, 2020 15:35 - 37 minutes - 50.9 MBIn this week’s COVID-related AI news, Andy and Dave discuss “SciFact” from the Allen Institute for AI, which built on neural network VeriSci and can link to supporting or refuting materials for claims about COVID-19. Berkeley Labs releases COVIDScholar, which uses natural language processing text-mining to search over 60,000 papers and draw insights and connections. Berekely Labs also announces plans to use machine learning to estimate COVID-19’s seasonal cycle. In non-COVID AI news, Google ...
Eye, Pac-Bot
June 05, 2020 17:26 - 36 minutes - 49.7 MBIn COVID-related AI news, Andy and Dave discuss work from Mount Sinai researchers, who have created an AI system that uses CT scans to diagnose patients with COVID-19. MIT and IBM Watson announce plans to fund 10 AI research projects to find COVID-19. The National Security Commission on AI releases its second white paper on COVID-19, on mitigating economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, and preserving US strategic competitiveness in AI. In non-COVID AI news, DARPA’s Gamebreaker project ho...
Afterburn-in
May 29, 2020 17:41 - 43 minutes - 59.4 MBIn COVID-19-related AI news, Andy and Dave discuss the Novel Coronavirus Research Compendium, a curated resource from Kate Grabowski, an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins, with the goal of providing a smaller, but higher-quality, data set on coronavirus research. Primer AI uses natural language processing to summarize the latest information on COVID-19. C3.ai provides a COVID-19 data lake with accompanying knowledge graphs, and ready for use with R or Python. On 1 June, the Stanford Institute ...
HurriCOVID Season
May 22, 2020 16:30 - 36 minutes - 49.7 MBIn COVID-related AI news, Andy and Dave discuss an approach from FiveThirtyEight that uses a mini-model-ensemble to predict possible trajectories for the COVID-19 death toll. MIT Tech Review has released a tracker for COVID-19 tracing trackers, which includes information on how they work and what policies they have in place. In non-COVID-related AI news, DIU releases a solicitation for Vigilante Keeper, an AI solution for detecting behavioral changes that might indicate increased vulnerabili...
Finding Lenia
May 15, 2020 15:44 - 35 minutes - 48.5 MBAndy and Dave discuss a white paper from the National Security Commission on AI, on Privacy and Ethics Recommendations for Computing Applications Developed to Mitigate COVID-19. The Office of the Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security issues a second point paper on lethal autonomous weapons systems, with AI, Human-Machine Interaction, and Autonomous Weapons. DARPA announces its Air Space Total Awareness for Rapid Tactical Execution (ASTARTE) program, which aims t...
The Brainy Bunch
May 08, 2020 15:27 - 31 minutes - 42.8 MBIn COVID-related AI news, hospitals across the US are using an AI system called Deterioration Index to provide a snapshot of patients’s risks, even though the software has not yet been validated to be effective for those with COVID-19. Meanwhile, Qure.ai has retooled its qXR system, designed for chest x-rays, to detect COVID-induced pneumonia, and a preliminary validation study with 11,000 images found a 95% accuracy in distinguishing patients with and without COVID-19. The Digital Ethics La...
This is Feyn
May 01, 2020 17:37 - 36 minutes - 50 MBAndy and Dave discuss the initial results from King’s College London’s COVID Symptom Tracker, which found fatigue, loss of taste and smell, and cough to be the most common symptoms. MIT’s CSAIL and clinical team at Heritage Assisted Living announce Emerald, a Wi-Fi box that uses machine learning analyzes wireless signals to record (non-invasively) a person’s vital signs. AI Landing has developed a tool that monitors the distance between people and can send an alert when they get too close. A...
The COVID Game of Life
April 24, 2020 16:35 - 36 minutes - 49.8 MBIn COVID-related AI research, Andy and Dave discuss the joint announcement from Apple and Google on creating a voluntary COVID-19 tracing system that makes use of Bluetooth and anonymous crypto keys. A report in the BMJ screened 27 recent studies describing 31 COVID prediction models and found that all of the studies had a high risk of bias and that the reported performance of the models was probably optimistic. The Allen Institute for AI has updated its COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD)...
Never Give Up
April 17, 2020 16:12 - 33 minutes - 46 MBIn COVID-related AI topics, Andy and Dave discuss an emerging crop (no less than three!) of COVID-19 cough detectors that attempt to diagnose the presence of COVID by various voice measurements. In a similar vein, but for different purposes, the U.S. drone maker Draganfly announces it is working with the Australian Department of Defence to produce “pandemic drones,” which can detect coughing, sneezing, and respiratory rate at a difference. Folding@home has shifted its crowdsourcing computati...
COVium-Gatherum
April 10, 2020 17:24 - 40 minutes - 23.5 MBJvion has provided an online mapping tool to view regions of the United States and see the areas most vulnerable to issues related to COVID, a “COVID Vulnerability Map.” A video clip from Tectonix uses anonymized crowdsourced data to show how Spring Breakers at one Fort Lauderdale beach spread back across the United States, to demonstrate the ease with which a virus *could* spread. A new initiative from Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School seeks to create a real-time way to ...
RIDE of the COV-all-cures
April 03, 2020 17:29 - 32 minutes - 44.5 MBIn COVID-related news, Andy and Dave discuss CloseLoop.ai and its release of an open-source toolkit for predicting people vulnerable to COVID-19. A Korean biotech company, Seegene, announces that it has used AI to create a coronavirus test. DarwinAI and research at the University of Waterloo announce COVID-Net, a convolutional neural network for detecting COVID-19 in chest x-rays. In non-COVID news, the White House releases its first annual report on AI. The U.S. intelligence community descr...
We’ve Got You COVID
March 27, 2020 18:09 - 23 minutes - 13.6 MBNot surprisingly, COVID-19 has taken over the news section, but still as it all relates to AI and machine learning. Andy and Dave discuss the COVID-19 Open Research Data Set, a free resource of over 29,000 scholarly articles on the coronavirus family, made available for the Allen Institute, CSET, CZI, Microsoft Research, NIH, and the White House OSTP. In similar news, over 100 organizations have signed a “wellcome statement” to make COVID-19 research and data open for access. The New England...
NOAA’s Arcade
March 20, 2020 18:09 - 39 minutes - 54.8 MBIn news items, Andy and Dave discuss an effort by Boston Children’s Hospital to use machine learning to help track the spread of COVID-19. Meanwhile, a proposal from researchers wants to use mobile phones to track the virus’s spread. Fifty-two organization have come together to develop the “first-ever industry-led” standard for AI in healthcare. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announces its AI strategy. And IBM and Promare begin sea trials for Mayflower, an autonom...
Dyson's Punch-out!!
March 13, 2020 19:38 - 35 minutes - 48.8 MBIn news, Andy and Dave discuss announcements from two Chinese firms that have developed AI that can identify COVID-19 infections with high accuracy. And the Francis Crick Institute makes DeepMind's AlphaFold data on COVID-19 available for free access to researchers. Scientists at the University of Southampton and the University of Padova demonstrate that artificial and biological neurons can communicate over the internet (using memristors). Researchers at the University of Miguel Hernandez d...
Overthought Plumbing
March 06, 2020 18:34 - 35 minutes - 48.5 MBThe U.S. Department of Defense Chief Information Officer formally announces that DoD will adopt the Defense Innovation Board’s recommendations on five principles for AI. MIT research have used machine learning to discover a new antibiotic, which they named Halicin. Researchers develop a quantum dot nanoscale device that acts like the brain’s visual cortex to “see” things in its path. The Creative Commons submits its comments to the World Intellectual Property Organization, suggesting that co...
Where NOMARS Has Gone Before
February 20, 2020 22:24 - 37 minutes - 50.9 MBAndy and Dave discuss the President’s 2021 Budget Request, which increases funding for AI but decreases funding to science in general. Google releases Jigsaw, a tool to spot faked and doctored images, but not for the public. DARPA announces its NOMARS program, a No Manning Required Ship. Google creates an ML “fairness gym” to let researchers explore the long-term paths of AI’s decisions. The U.S. Army introduces Aided-Threat Recognition from Mobile Cooperative and Autonomous Sensors (ATR-MCA...
The Unreasonable Perplexity of Fat Tails
February 14, 2020 16:13 - 34 minutes - 46.9 MBAndy and Dave discuss an announcement from Exscientia and Sumitomo that they have the first entirely-AI developed drug that is now entering clinical trials. The Director of the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan has announced his retirement. Senator Michael Bennet sends a scathing letter to the U.S. Chief Technology Officer on its recent AI Principles for regulation. DARPA’s Habitus program seeks to automate the process of revealing and using local information, to e...
Gremlin Pie!
February 07, 2020 19:13 - 34 minutes - 47.1 MBHappy Pi-cast! Andy and Dave discuss some of the stories that have followed the New York Times articles on Clearview AI, to include Twitter telling the company to stop using its photos, and a consortium of 40 agencies calls on the U.S. government to ban facial recognition systems until more is known about the technology. Meanwhile, London’s Metropolitan Police is rolling out live facial recognition technology. BlueDot says that it used AI and its epidemiologists to send a warning about the W...
Private AIs, They’re Watching You
January 31, 2020 18:59 - 37 minutes - 51.7 MBIn a string of related news items on facial recognition, Andy and Dave discuss San Diego’s reported experiences with facial recognition over the last 7 years (coming to an end on 1 January 2020 with the enacting of California’s ban on facial recognition for law enforcement). Across the Atlantic, the European Union is considering a ban on facial recognition in public spaces for 5 years while it determines the broader implications. And the New York Times puts the spotlight on Clearview AI, a ...
Xenophobe
January 24, 2020 18:04 - 41 minutes - 57.1 MBThe 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 ...
Fakers of the Lost Architecture
January 17, 2020 17:53 - 38 minutes - 53.5 MBAndy 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 acc...
Hit the Wall: Do Not Play GO (Part II)
January 10, 2020 20:10 - 33 minutes - 46.6 MBIn 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 nif...
Hit the Wall: Do Not Play GO (Part I)
January 03, 2020 17:31 - 23 minutes - 32.8 MBAndy 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 ...
Attack of the Clouds
December 20, 2019 17:10 - 35 minutes - 48.4 MBThe White House Office of Science and Technology Policy releases its 2016-2019 Progress Report on Advancing AI R&D. SkyNet publishes “AI Coverage Best Practices, According to AI Researchers.” The US Patent and Trademark Office asks whether AI can own the content that it creates. And Amazon files paperwork to protest the awarding of Pentagon’s JEDI cloud project o Microsoft. DeepMind announces the latest iteration of its board game playing algorithm, with MuZero, which learns to play go, ches...
SinGAN in the Rain
December 13, 2019 17:57 - 41 minutes - 56.3 MBAndy 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 ...
20,000 Layers Under the CNN
December 06, 2019 17:55 - 34 minutes - 47.3 MBAndy 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 ...
Some Superintelligent Assembly Required
November 29, 2019 16:00 - 33 minutes - 45.4 MBIn 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 ke...
When You Wish Upon an AlphaStar
November 22, 2019 17:31 - 35 minutes - 48.3 MBIn 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 c...
Weirder Things
November 15, 2019 16:17 - 31 minutes - 42.6 MBFacebook 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 ...
The Quantum Menace
November 08, 2019 17:23 - 43 minutes - 59.9 MBIn 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 transl...
Newton & the 3-Body Problem
November 01, 2019 16:57 - 36 minutes - 49.7 MBAndy 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 Lei...
JAICs on a Plane with a Cube of the Rubik
October 25, 2019 17:26 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBWelcome 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 ...
The (Creepy) Aristobots (part 2)
October 18, 2019 18:16 - 31 minutes - 43.3 MBThis week, Microsoft Research and 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...
The (Creepy) Aristobots (Part 1)
October 11, 2019 18:05 - 26 minutes - 36.2 MBAndy and Dave discuss the U.S. Air Force’s recently released AI strategy. NATO releases a draft reports 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 ...
From A to Z
October 03, 2019 20:34 - 41 minutes - 56.5 MBTwo 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 ...
Ghost in the Mirror
September 27, 2019 16:20 - 27 minutes - 38.4 MBAndy 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...
DARPAs Are Forever
September 20, 2019 17:33 - 26 minutes - 36.4 MBAndy 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 team 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 L...
Nervana: In Silico
September 13, 2019 17:40 - 36 minutes - 49.7 MBAndy 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 Russ...
In the Year 20XX: 100th Episode Celebration!
September 06, 2019 16:52 - 56 minutes - 77.9 MBHappy 100th 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 at 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 ot...
The Call of Aftershocktopus (Part 2)
August 30, 2019 15:12 - 27 minutes - 37.3 MBResearchers at Berkeley, Washington, and Chicago identify “natural adversarial” examples that cause classifier accuracy to significantly degrade, likely due to an over-reliance on color, texture, and background cues. Andy and Dave then discuss a series of events following a Nature paper on application of deep learning to aftershock patterns of earthquakes, wherein other researchers raised questions on the researcher (one demonstrating that a simple logistic regression does better; and anothe...
The Call of Aftershocktopus (Part 1)
August 23, 2019 20:36 - 29 minutes - 40.4 MBThe National Security Commission on AI solicits creative and original ideas to challenge the status quo assumptions on maintaining US global leadership in AI. Researchers at MIT and Colgate publish an engineering *concept* that would use superconducting nanowires to mimic artificial neurons in a way that would theoretically match the energy efficiency of brains. Microsoft invests $1B in OpenAI to create brain-like machines. A proposed bill would prohibit the use of facial recognition technol...
Through the Looking Glass (Part 2)
August 16, 2019 16:18 - 22 minutes - 31.2 MBThe University of Singapore creatures an artificial skin that can sense temperature, pressure, and humidity. The International Center for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities releases its Evaluation of (AI) Guidelines. A report from FutureGrasp takes a global look at the AI initiatives (or lack thereof) of States. Hayden Klok and Yoni Nazarathy release a draft of Statistics with Julia. Metaacademy provides learning plans and resources for learning about topics, from beginner to advanced. Cl...
Through the Looking Glass (Part 1)
August 09, 2019 19:55 - 26 minutes - 35.8 MBAndy and Dave discuss the Digital Modernization Strategy that the US Department of Defense released on 12 July 2019. Todd Austin at the University of Michigan presents research at a conference on Morpheus, a project to create a chip that randomizes elements of its code, in an attempt to slow would-be hackers. Also in chip-related news, Intel introduces Pohoiki Beach, a new 8 million-neuron neuromorphic system with 64 Loihi research chips, with expectations that they will produce a system cap...
The Shadow of What Is Going to Be (Part 2)
August 02, 2019 18:02 - 39 minutes - 54 MBContinuing 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 gesture, and then produce plausible gestures to accompany other audio input. And research in Nature examines 3.3 million material-scien...
The Shadow of What Is Going to Be (Part 1)
July 26, 2019 18:37 - 34 minutes - 46.9 MBAndy and Dave discuss a scathing report on Scotland Yard’s facial recognition software, which researchers at the University of Essex found to have an 81% error rate (but that the Met Police say has an error rate of 0.1%). In related news, Axon announced that it will ban the use of facial recognition systems on its devices; Axon supplies 47 of the 69 largest police agencies in the U.S. with body cameras and software. DARPA announces IDAS, the Intent-Defined Adaptive Software (IDAS), in an att...
The Fake That Launched 1,000 Clips (Part 2)
July 18, 2019 21:24 - 16 minutes - 22.6 MBMore research from Berkeley and also University of Southern California creates a method to “protect” world leaders against deep fakes, by identifying, among other things, 17 Facial Action Units (such as subtle movements of eyebrows, cheeks, nose, etc, during speech). And research from MIT can take an audio clip and convert it to a generic human face. A report from RAND looks at Ethics in Scientific Research. Deakin University and Harvard provide a survey of deep reinforcement learning in cyb...
The Fake That Launched 1,000 Clips (Part 1)
July 12, 2019 17:29 - 21 minutes - 29.7 MBAndy and Dave discuss the update to the US National AI Research and Development Strategic Plan, which establishes 8 objectives for federally funded AI research. Meanwhile, the European Commission starts its pilot phase for ethics guidelines for trustworthy AI, with the first AI Alliance Assembly meeting in Brussels and the High-Level Expert Group of AI (AI HLEG). The Joint AI Center, in conjunction with CMU, CrowdAI, and DIU, plans to make available xBD (x-Building-Damage), an open-source la...
For Your AIs Only
July 05, 2019 13:00 - 28 minutes - 39.5 MBRussia 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...