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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Who Manipulates the Manipulators? (Part 2)
June 28, 2019 19:51 - 24 minutes - 33.6 MBResearchers at the University of Tubingen demonstrate that virtual neurons spontaneously develop a “number sense” when assessing the number of visual items (such as dots) in a set. The Allen Institute for AI create Grover, a neural network that can generate fake news, but that can also detect NN-generated fake news; Grover uses the same architecture as GPT-2 (the previous “unreleasable for the safety of humanity” algorithm), but these researchers highlight the importance of making available ...
Who Manipulates the Manipulators? (Part 1)
June 21, 2019 17:00 - 30 minutes - 42.3 MBAndy and Dave discuss early thoughts from the House Intelligence Committee hearing on deep fakes, manipulated media, and AI; artists take a shot at Mark Zuckerberg to demonstrate the power of fake videos; the House Armed Services Committee doubles Joint AI funding; Google AI releases the Google Research Football Environment; a study examines the amount of CO2 released when training AI models; Microsoft provides an AI curriculum for government decision-makers; Microsoft also removes access to...
52 Views of HOListic Imagination
June 14, 2019 20:28 - 55 minutes - 75.7 MBIn 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 I...
We All Live in a Neuro Subroutine (Side B)
June 07, 2019 17:36 - 26 minutes - 35.8 MBContinuing in research topics, Andy and Dave discuss research from MIT that treats image classification adversarial examples not as bugs, but as features – and intentionally mislabeled pictures; the approach adds robustness to vulnerability, and provides evidence that adversarial vulnerability is caused by non-robust features and is not inherently tied to the standard training framework. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists releases The Global Competition for AI Dominance in its May 2019 is...
We All Live in a Neuro Subroutine (Side A)
May 31, 2019 15:30 - 35 minutes - 49 MBAndy and Dave discuss a new IARPA program, Camera Network Research Data Collection, which intends to identify and track subjects across areas as large as six miles via a security camera footage of varying type and quality. DARPA announces the recipients of its Next-Generation Non-Surgical Neurotechnology (N3) program, which includes efforts to read from and write to the brain. The Joint Artificial Intelligence Center adds two new areas of focus: cybersecurity, and robotic process automation....
Elfnark’s Lottery Ticket
May 24, 2019 18:00 - 56 minutes - 77.2 MBAndy and Dave take a look at the reintroduction of the “AI in Government Act,” a bill that intents to get more AI technical experts into the US Government. San Francisco bans facial recognition software (but leaves the door open in the future), while Moscow announces plans to weave AI facial recognition into its urban surveillance net. Facebook opens up its data to academic researchers for analysis. DARPA announces the Air Combat Evolution (ACE) program, to automate air-to-air combat; DARPA ...
The One about ‘Bots…
May 17, 2019 18:23 - 46 minutes - 63.7 MB“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 ...
Salvere Rex or Salve Getafix?
May 10, 2019 19:04 - 35 minutes - 48.7 MBProfessor Jennifer McArdle, Assistant Professor of Cyber Defense at Salve Regina University, joins Andy and Dave for a discussion on AI and machine learning. Jenny is leading a group of graduate students who are working on creating a strategic-level primer on AI, particularly aimed at those who may be less familiar with the technical aspects, as well as a War on the Rocks article on AI in training and synthetic environments. Her students are studying in a variety of areas, including cyber de...
LAWS & DOTAr: Synthetic Voice Unit
May 03, 2019 17:00 - 57 minutes - 78.5 MBAndy and Dave welcome Dr. Anna Williams and Dr. Larry Lewis to discuss the recent UN Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, and the latest developments in the global discussion on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS).
AstroBees in Your BonNAT
April 26, 2019 15:24 - 36 minutes - 49.6 MBAndy 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 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 ...
Black Hole Watson
April 19, 2019 14:39 - 41 minutes - 57.2 MBAndy and Dave discuss the first image of a black hole, and its link to machine learning -- with research from Katie Bouman while she was at MIT, developing Continuous High-resolution Image Reconstruction using Patch priors (CHIRP), as a way to stitch together different sources to create a continuous whole. Next, Andy and Dave discuss research from the Sorbonne and IST Austria that tries to deduce the reward function of a recurrent neural network by assuming the neurons are agents. And resear...
TossBot’s Physics Residu-ALE, with SimPLe syrup
April 12, 2019 17:14 - 47 minutes - 65.5 MBAndy and Dave discuss Simulated Policy Learning (SimPLe), from Google Brain, which attempts to help reinforcement learning methods learn effective policies for complex tasks, such as Atari games (using the Atari Learning Environment, ALE); the method trains a policy in a simulated environment so that it achieves good performance in the original environment. From Google and Princeton University, the TossingBot learns to throw arbitrary objects into bins; research use “residual physics” to pro...
Doctor Omega and the Tsar’s Particle Bots
April 05, 2019 16:45 - 50 minutes - 69.9 MBThe Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has released its first edition of Ethically Aligned Design (EAD1e), a nearly 300-page report involving thousands of global experts; the report covers 8 major principles including transparency, accountability, and awareness of misuse. DARPA announces the Artificial Social Intelligence for Successful Teams program, which will attempt to help AI build shared mental models and understand the intentions, expectations, and emotions of it...
The World Ends with Robots
March 29, 2019 18:25 - 57 minutes - 79.2 MBAndy and Dave begin with an AI-generated podcast, using the “dumbed down” GPT-2 with the repository of podcast notes; GPT-2 ends the faux podcast with a video called “The World Ends with Robots” and Dave later discovers that a Google search on the title brings up zero hits. Ominous! Andy and Dave continue with a discussion of the Boeing 737 MAX crashes and the implications for autonomous systems. Stanford University launches the Stanford Institute for Human-centered Artificial Intelligence (...
Reflecting on Huginn and Muninn
March 22, 2019 17:34 - 55 minutes - 76.1 MBTitle: Reflecting on Huginn and Muninn Description: Andy and Dave discuss “activation atlases,” recent work from OpenAI and Google that offers a new technique for visualizing interactions between the neurons in an image classifying deep neural network. The UCLA Center for Vision, Cognition, Learning, and Autonomy together with the International Center for AI and Robot Autonomy publish work on RAVEN – a dataset for Relational and Analogical Visual rEasoNing, which uses John Raven’s Progress...
Bonus Episode: CNA Talks- Cybersecurity Futures 2025
March 19, 2019 16:39 - 29 minutes - 39.9 MBLiza 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, ...
A Neural Reading rAInbow
March 15, 2019 18:15 - 49 minutes - 68.5 MBAndy and Dave discuss research from Neil Johnson, who looked to the movements of fly larvae to model financial systems, where a collection of agents share a common goal, but have no way to communicate and coordinate their activities (a memory of five past events ends up being the ideal balance). Researchers at Carnegie Mellon demonstrate that random search with early-stopping is a competitive Neural Architecture Search baseline, performing at least as well as “Efficient” NAS. Unrelated resea...
A Mind Forever Voyaging Part 2
March 08, 2019 16:20 - 27 minutes - 38 MBColumbia University takes a step toward reconstructing speech directly from the brain’s auditory cortex, by temporarily placing electrodes in patients and having them listen to spoken numbers. DARPA announces SAIL-ON, the Science of Artificial Intelligence and Learning for Open-world Novelty, in an attempt to help AI adapt to constantly changing conditions. DARPA’s Systematizing Confidence in Open Research and Evidence (SCORE) promises $7.6M to the Center for Open Science, for leading the ch...
A Mind Forever Voyaging Part 1
March 01, 2019 20:00 - 32 minutes - 44.9 MBOpenAI has trained an unsupervised language model that can perform basic reading comprehension, summarize text, answer questions, and generate coherent paragraphs; as Andy and Dave discuss, the bigger news came from OpenAI’s decision to release a less-capable version of the GPT-2 model, “for the good of humanity,” as one news site claimed. IBM’s Project Debater lost a debate with champion debater Harish Natarajan, but more of the audience said Project Debater better enriched their knowledge ...
Ode to the Joy of pAInting
February 21, 2019 20:58 - 57 minutes - 79.1 MBAndy and Dave discuss a series of announcements: President Trump signs an Executive Order to prioritize and promote AI; the U.S. Department of Defense releases its 2019 AI Strategy; DARPA announces an Intelligent Neural Interface program focused on improving neurotechnology, and DARPA announces Guaranteeing AI Robustness against Deception (GARD), intended as an almost immune-system like approach to increase the resistance of ML models to deception; Securities and Exchange Commission filings ...
Self-aware Bag of Atomic Camels
February 15, 2019 18:53 - 1 hour - 83.4 MBFor research topics, Andy and Dave discuss the task-agnostic self-modeling machine from Columbia University, a robotic arm that learns to build an approximate model of itself and then interact with the world; they also discuss the over-hyped reporting of the research. A much less hyped, but possibly more groundbreaking research from MIT results in a robot that can play the tower-block game Jenga, using multisensory fusion to do so. More research from MIT attempts to synthesize probabilistic ...
Darcraft Shadows
February 08, 2019 17:07 - 54 minutes - 75.2 MBIn recent announcements, Andy and Dave discuss the National Endowment for Science, Technology, and the Arts (Nesta) launch of a project that is ‘Mapping AI Governance;’ MIT Tech Review’s survey of AI and ML research suggests that “the era of deep learning coming to an end” (or does it?); a December 2018 survey shows strong opposition to “killer robots;” China has (internally) released a report on its view of the “State of AI in China;” and DARPA wants to build conscious robots using insect b...
What is AI?
February 01, 2019 18:41 - 44 minutes - 60.8 MBCNA’s Center for Autonomy and Artificial Intelligence kicks off its first panel for 2019 with a live recording of AI with AI! Andy and Dave take a step back and look at the broader trends of research and announcements involving AI and machine learning, including: a summary of historical events and issues; the myths and hype, looking at expectations, buzzwords, and reality; hits and misses (and more hype!), and some of the many challenges of why AI is far from a panacea.
Undecidable: They Called Me Mr. GAN
January 25, 2019 17:00 - 44 minutes - 61.4 MBAndy and Dave discuss Microsoft’s $1.76B five-year service deal with the Department of Defense, US Coast Guard, and the intelligence communities; the US Defense Innovation Board announces its first “public listening session” on AI principles; Finland announces an AI experiment to teach 1% of its population the basics of AI; a report from the Center for the Governance of AI and the Future of Humanity Institute reports on American attitudes and trends toward AI; and the Reuters Institute for t...
From Russia with UAV
January 18, 2019 17:00 - 45 minutes - 62.7 MBAnna Williams joins Andy and Dave as CNA’s Russia AI and Autonomy expert Sam Bendett returns to discuss the latest news and developments from Russia. Sam describes the progress that the Russian Ministry of Defense has made in implementing AI since its announcement of an AI Roadmap in March 2018, including some of the organizations involved and their advances. The group also discusses developments in the Russian civilian AI sector, as well as Russia’s intent to publish a civilian AI Roadmap b...
When This Savvy Slime Mold Encountered a Morphogenic Robotic Swarm, You Won't Believe What Happened Next...!
January 11, 2019 17:00 - 41 minutes - 57.2 MBAndy and Dave discuss Rodney Brooks' predictions on AI from early 2018, and his (on-going) review of those predictions. The European Commission releases a report on AI and Ethics, a framework for "Trustworthy AI." DARPA announces the Knowledge-directed AI Reasoning over Schemas (KAIROS) program, aimed at understanding "complex events." The Standardized Project Gutenberg Corpus attempts to provide researchers broader data across the project's complete data holdings. And MORS announces a speci...
Distilled Data: 200 Proofs
January 04, 2019 17:00 - 53 minutes - 73.1 MBIn shorter news items, Andy and Dave discuss the announcement that the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence is partnering with Microsoft Research to connect AI2’s Semantic Scholar academic search engine with Microsoft’s Academic Graph. The University of Pavia in Italy demonstrates an artificial neuron (a perceptron) on an actual quantum processor. Another Tesla on Autopilot has an accident; and Waymo demonstrates that pure imitation learning (with 30 million examples) is not sufficien...
Eleventh Voyage into Morphospace
December 21, 2018 17:00 - 45 minutes - 62 MBThe Joint Artificial Intelligence Center is up and running, and Andy and Dave discuss some of the newer revealed details. And the rebranded NeurIPS (originally NIPS), the largest machine learning conference of the year, holds its 32nd annual conference in Montreal, Canada, with a keynote discussion on “What Bodies Think About” by Michael Levin. And a group of graduate students have create a community-driven database to provide links to tasks, data, metrics, and results on the “state of the a...
AI with AI: Montezuma’s Regulation
December 14, 2018 17:00 - 44 minutes - 61.5 MBThis week, Andy and Dave discuss the US Department of Commerce’s announcement to consider regulating AI as an export; counter to that idea, Amazon makes freely available 45+ hours of training materials on machine learning, with tailored learning paths; Oren Etzioni proposes ideas for broader regulation of AI research, that attempts to balance the benefits with the potential harms; DARPA tests its CODE program for autonomous drone operations in the presence of GPS and communications jamming; ...
AI with AI: It Can Only Be Attributable to Human Error
December 07, 2018 17:00 - 51 minutes - 71.1 MBIn the latest news, Andy and Dave discuss OpenAI releasing “Spinning Up in Deep RL,” an online educational resource; Google AI and the New York Times team up to digitize over 5 million photos and find “untold stories;” China is recruiting its brightest children to develop AI “killer bots;” and China unveils the world’s first AI new anchor; and Douglas Rain, the voice of HAL 9000 has died at age 90. In research topics, Andy and Dave discuss research from MIT, Tegmark, and Wu, that attempts to...
AI with AI: It’s Neurons All the Way Down
November 30, 2018 17:00 - 19 minutes - 26.8 MBAndy and Dave discuss research from Hasani and colleagues that uses a natural method for growing a neural network, which they use to demonstrate that a 12-neuron network can be trained to steer and park a rover robot to a given spot. Jeff Hawkins and co-workers describe a new theory of intelligence, positing that every part of the human neocortex learns complete models of objects and concepts, resulting in a “thousand brains theory of intelligence.” The UK publishes a 2000+ page report on th...
AI with AI: But Is It Art(ificial)?
November 23, 2018 17:00 - 28 minutes - 38.7 MBIn the latest news, Andy and Dave discuss Microsoft’s announcement that it will sell artificial intelligence and other advanced technology to the Pentagon; Google is giving $25M to projects that use artificial intelligence for humanitarian projects; Stanford announces the Human-Centered AI initiative; AdaNet offers fast and flexible AutoML with “learning guarantees;” and a “human brain” supercomputer (using neuromorphic computing) with 1 million processors is switched online for the first ti...
AI with AI: The Society of Mind Your Step
November 16, 2018 17:00 - 20 minutes - 27.5 MBDeep generative models can generate “spurious” samples (i.e. errors). Researchers from Université Paris-Saclay and PSL Research University explore a basic question, “Is it possible to get rid of all spurious samples [in deep generative models] without sacrificing coverage of a model?” Their research suggests a “Heisenberg Uncertainty”-like tradeoff between full coverage and spurious objects. DeepMind announces large-scale GAN training for natural image synthesis with high fidelity. And Andy ...
AI with AI: Common Dents
November 09, 2018 17:00 - 34 minutes - 47.5 MBAndy and Dave discuss the latest corporate buzz on the Department of Defense’s JEDI contract, in which Microsoft employees publish an open letter and accuse the company of straying from its AI principles; a new DARPA program seeks to codify humans’ basic common sense through computational models and repositories; MIT establishes the Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing, a $1B initiative and the single largest by an American academic institution; MIT also announces an Autonomous Vehicle...
AI with AI: Bots Without Ethics - Safety Dance
November 02, 2018 16:00 - 34 minutes - 47.3 MBAndy and Dave focus of a variety of big news items, including: Google bows out of the bidding for the Pentagon’s “JEDI” cloud contract valued at $10 billion; the Government Accountability Office releases a 50-page report on the poor state of the cybersecurity of U.S. weapons systems; “The Big Hack” makes big news, with Bloomberg reporting that China inserted a tiny chip on hardware in order to infiltrate U.S. networks; the U.S. Department of Transportation looks to rewrite safety rules in or...
AI with AI: Quickly Followed by DARPA’s Counter-Balrog Challenge
October 26, 2018 16:00 - 36 minutes - 49.8 MBWelcome to Version 2.0 of AI with AI! Dave starts off by trying to explain the weird podcast titles, and he plugs Andy’s (@ai_ilachinski) and his (@crypticnarwhal) Twitter accounts. Andy and Dave then get down to business discussing Britain’s “successful” trials of using AI (“SAPIENT”) in urban battlefield scanning to identify enemy movements; the IEEE launches an ethics certification program for autonomous and intelligent systems; the U.S. Department of Energy invests $218M in Quantum Infor...
AI with AI: As Easy As T-B-D!
October 19, 2018 14:00 - 33 minutes - 45.4 MBAndy and Dave discuss the “Transparency by Design Network” (TbD-net), research from MIT Lincoln Lab that uses a collection of modular neural nets to perform specific image identification subtasks. The resulting output places heat-map blobs over objects in an image, which allows a human analyst to see how a module is interpreting the image (and to use that information to further improve the model’s accuracy). In research from DeepMind and the University of Oxford, researchers attempt to solve...
AI with AI: The Whirly Bird Gets the Drone
October 12, 2018 16:00 - 28 minutes - 39.3 MBAndy 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 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, wit...
AI with AI: Keep Talking and No Robot Explodes, Part II
October 05, 2018 16:00 - 14 minutes - 20 MBDr. Larry Lewis, the Director of CNA’s Center for Autonomy and Artificial Intelligence, joins Andy and Dave to provide a summary of the recent United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons meeting in Geneva on Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems. Larry discusses the different viewpoints of the attendees, and walks through the draft document that the group published on “Emerging Commonalities, Conclusions, and Recommendations.” The topics include: Possible Guiding Principles; charact...
AI with AI: Keep Talking and No Robot Explodes, Part I
September 28, 2018 16:00 - 39 minutes - 54.1 MBDr. Larry Lewis, the Director of CNA’s Center for Autonomy and Artificial Intelligence, joins Andy and Dave to provide a summary of the recent United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons meeting in Geneva on Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems. Larry discusses the different viewpoints of the attendees, and walks through the draft document that the group published on “Emerging Commonalities, Conclusions, and Recommendations.” The topics include: Possible Guiding Principles; charact...
AI with AI: Curiosity Killed the Poison Frog, Part II
September 21, 2018 16:00 - 24 minutes - 33.1 MBAndy and Dave briefly discuss the results from the Group of Governmental Experts meetings on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems in Geneva; the Pentagon releases its Unmanned Systems Integrated Roadmap 2017-2042; Google announces DataSet Search, a curated pool of datasets available on the internet; California endorses a set of 23 AI Principles in conjunction with the Future of Life; and registration for the Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 2018 conference sells out in just under 12...
AI with AI: Curiosity Killed the Poison Frog, Part I
September 14, 2018 16:00 - 30 minutes - 42.1 MBAndy and Dave briefly discuss the results from the Group of Governmental Experts meetings on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems in Geneva; the Pentagon releases its Unmanned Systems Integrated Roadmap 2017-2042; Google announces DataSet Search, a curated pool of datasets available on the internet; California endorses a set of 23 AI Principles in conjunction with the Future of Life; and registration for the Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 2018 conference sells out in just under 12...
AI with AI: There are FOUR ELEPHANTS!
September 07, 2018 17:00 - 40 minutes - 55.3 MBAndy 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 netw...
AI with AI: Enter the Dragonfly
August 31, 2018 16:00 - 28 minutes - 39.8 MBIn breaking news, Andy and Dave discuss the Convention on Conventional Weapons meeting on lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWs) at the United Nations, where more than 70 countries are participating in the sixth meeting since 2014. Highlights include the priorities for discussion, as well as the UK delegation's role and position. The Pentagon’s AI programs get a boost in the defense budget. DARPA announces the Automating Scientific Knowledge Extraction (ASKE) project, with the lofty goal o...
AI with AI: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI
August 24, 2018 16:00 - 41 minutes - 57.4 MBThe Director for CNA’s Center for Autonomy and AI, Dr. Larry Lewis, joins Dave for a discussion on understanding and mitigating the risks of using autonomy and AI in war. They discuss some of the commonly voiced risks of autonomy and AI, in application for war, but also in general application, which include: AI will destroy the world; AI and lethal autonomy are unethical; lack of accountability; and lack of discrimination. Having examined the underpinnings of these commonly voiced risks, Lar...
AI with AI: I Have No Eyes and I Must Meme
August 17, 2018 16:00 - 39 minutes - 54.9 MBIn breaking news, Andy and Dave discuss the Dota 2 competition between the Open AI Five team of AIs and a top (99.95th percentile) human team, where the humans won one game in a series of three; the Pentagon signs a $885M AI contract with Booz Allen; MIT builds Cheetah 3, a “blind” robot that has no visual sensors but can climb stairs and maneuver in a space with obstacles; Tencent Machine Learning trains AlexNet in just 4 minutes on ImageNet (breaking the previous record of 11 minutes); res...
AI with AI: People for the Ethical Tasking of AIs
August 10, 2018 16:00 - 18 minutes - 25.7 MBContinuing in a discussion of recent topics, Andy and Dave discuss research from Johns Hopkins University, which used supervised machine learning to predict toxicity of chemicals (the results of which beat animal tests). DeepMind probes toward general AI by exploring AI’s abstract reasoning capability; in their tests, they found that systems did OK (75% correct) when problems used the same abstract factors, but that AI systems fared very poorly if the testing differed from the training set (...
AI with AI: Mission SHRIMPossible
August 03, 2018 16:00 - 34 minutes - 47.7 MBIn breaking news, Andy and Dave discuss the “Future of Life” pledge that various AI tech leaders have signed, promising not to develop lethal autonomous weapons; DARPA announces its Artificial Intelligence Exploration (AIE) program, to provide “unique funding opportunities;” DARPA also announces a Short-Range Independent Microrobotic Platform (SHRIMP) program, which seeks to develop multi-functional tiny robots for use in natural and critical disaster scenarios; GoodAI announces the finalist...
AI with AI: Russian AI Kryptonite
July 27, 2018 16:00 - 26 minutes - 36.1 MBCNA’s expert on Russian AI and autonomous systems, Samuel Bendett, joins temporary host Larry Lewis (again filling in for Dave and Andy) to discuss Russia’s pursuits with the militarization of AI and autonomy. Russian Ministry of Defense (MOD) has made no secret of its desire to achieve technological breakthroughs in IT and especially artificial intelligence, marshalling extensive resources for a more organized and streamlined approach to information technology R&D. MOD is overseeing a signi...
AI with AI: Terminator or Data? Policy and Safety for Autonomous Weapons
July 20, 2018 21:00 - 41 minutes - 57.6 MBThis week Andy and Dave take a respite from the world of AI. In the meantime, Larry Lewis hosts Shawn Steene from the Office of Secretary of Defense. Shawn manages DOD Directive 3000.09 – US military policy on autonomous weapons – and is a member of the US delegation to the UN’s CCW meetings on Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems (LAWS). Shawn and Larry discuss U.S. policy, what DOD Directive 3000.09 actually means, and how the future of AI could more closely resemble the android data than SKYN...