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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AI with AI: Debater of the AI-ncients, Part 2 (Dota 2)
July 13, 2018 17:00 - 31 minutes - 42.6 MBIn the second part of this epic podcast, Andy and Dave continue their discussion with research from MIT, Vienna University of Technology, and Boston University, which uses human brainwaves and hand gestures to instantly correct robot mistakes. The research uses a combination of electroencephalogram (EEG, brain signals) and electromyogram (EMG, muscle signals) in combination to allow a human (without training) to provide corrective input to a robot while it performs tasks. On a related topic,...
AI with AI: Debater of the AI-ncients, Part 1 (Dota)
July 06, 2018 16:00 - 36 minutes - 50 MBIn breaking news, Andy and Dave discuss a potentially groundbreaking paper on the scalable training of artificial neural nets with adaptive sparse connectivity; MIT researchers unveil the Navion chip, only 20 square millimeters in size and consumes 24 milliwatts of power, it can process real-time camera images up to 171 frames per second, and can be integrated into drones the size of a fingernail; the Chair of the Armed Services Subcommitttee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities convened a r...
AI with AI: The AIth Sense - I See WiFi People
June 29, 2018 16:30 - 45 minutes - 62 MBIn breaking news, Andy and Dave discuss the recently unveiled Wolfram Neural Net Repository with 70 neural net models (as of the podcast recording) accessible in the Wolfram Language; Carnegie Mellon and STRUDEL announce the Code/Natural Language (CoNaLa) Challenge with a focus on Python; Amazon releases its Deep Lens video camera that enables deep learning tools; and the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2018 conference in Salt Lake City. Then, Andy and Dave discuss DeepMind’s Generat...
AI with AI: How to Train Your DrAIgon (for good, not for bad)
June 22, 2018 16:00 - 44 minutes - 60.5 MBIn recent news, Andy and Dave discuss a recent Brookings report on the view of AI and robots based on internet search data; a Chatham House report on AI anticipates disruption; Microsoft computes the future with its vision and principles on AI; the first major AI patent filings from DeepMind are revealed; biomimicry returns, with IBM using “analog” synapses to improve neural net implementation, and Stanford U researchers develop an artificial sensory nervous system; and Berkley Deep Drive pr...
AI with AI: Game of Drones - AI Winter Is Coming
June 15, 2018 15:00 - 48 minutes - 66.5 MBIn breaking news, Andy and Dave discuss Google’s decision not to renew the contract for Project Maven, as well as their AI Principles; the Royal Australian Air Force holds a biennial Air Power Conference with a theme of AI and cyber; the Defense Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUx) releases its 2017 annual report; China holds a Defense Conference on AI in cybersecurity, and NVidia’s new Xavier chip packs $10k worth of power into a $1299 box. Next, Andy and Dave discuss a benevolent applicatio...
AI with AI: Detective Centaur and the Curse of Footstep Awareness
June 08, 2018 12:00 - 41 minutes - 56.7 MBAndy 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 publishes 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 “ha...
AI with AI: Shiny Heart Reflecting in the Dark Lights Up (SHRDLU)
June 01, 2018 14:30 - 35 minutes - 48.3 MBIn breaking news, Andy and Dave discuss a few cracks seem to be appearing in Google’s Duplex demonstration; more examples of the breaking of Moore’s Law; a Princeton effort to advance the dialogue on AI and ethics; India joins the global AI-sabre-rattling; the UK Ministry of Defence launches an AI hub/lab; and the U.S. Navy dissolves its secretary-level unmanned systems office. Andy and Dave then discuss a demonstration of “zero-shot” learning, by which a robot learns to do a task by watchin...
AI with AI: Super-AI Reveals Answer to Everything: IDK, LUL
May 25, 2018 15:30 - 40 minutes - 55.1 MBIn a review of the latest news, Andy and Dave discuss: the White House’s “plan” for AI, the departure of employees from Google due to Project Maven, another Tesla crash, the first AI degree for undergraduates at CMU, and Boston Dynamics’ jumping and climbing robots. Next, two AI research topics have implications for neuroscience. First, Andy and Dave discuss AI research at DeepMind, which showed that an AI trained to navigate between two points developed “grid cells,” very similar to those f...
AI with AI: Better Lying Through Alchemy
May 18, 2018 16:00 - 36 minutes - 50.7 MBIn a review of the most recent news, Andy and Dave discuss the latest information on the fatal self-driving Uber accident, the AI community reacts (poorly) to Nature’s announcement of a new closed-access section on machine learning, on-demand self-driving cars will be coming soon to north Dallas, and the Chinese government is adding AI to high school curriculum with a mandated textbook. For more in-depth topics, Andy and Dave discuss the latest information from DARPA’s Lifelong Learning Mach...
AI with AI: Nuclear War and/or Better French Fries
May 11, 2018 16:00 - 26 minutes - 36.1 MBAndy 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 ...
AI with AI: Human-Machine Teaming with Major General Mick Ryan
May 04, 2018 16:00 - 25 minutes - 34.5 MBThis week, Andy, Larry, and Dave welcome Major General Mick Ryan, Commander of the Australian Defence College. Mick has recently published a report on Human-Machine Teaming for Future Ground Forces, in which he identifies keys areas for human-machine teams, as well as challenges that military forces will have in incorporating these new capabilities. The group discusses some of these issues, and some of the broader challenges in both the near- and far-term.
AI with AI: Moments in Time, Humans Are Underrated, and Hugging Robots
April 27, 2018 16:00 - 33 minutes - 46.2 MBAndy and Dave start this week’s podcast with a review of some of the latest announcements: the latest meeting of the UN Convention on Certain Convention Weapons, SecDef Mattis’s announcement of a new joint program office for AI, a declaration of cooperation on AI by 25 European countries, and a UK Parliament report on AI. They then discuss the latest Center for the Study of the Drone report, which compares U.S. Dept of Defense drone spending for FY19 with FY18. The MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab has ...
AI with AI: Unmanned Systems, AI, and the U.S. Navy, with CAPT Sharif Calfee, Part II
April 20, 2018 15:30 - 32 minutes - 44.3 MBAnna Williams joins Dave in welcoming CAPT Sharif Calfee for a two-part discussion on unmanned systems and artificial intelligence. As part of his fellowship research, CAPT Calfee has been speaking with organizations and subject matter experts across the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Government, Federally Funded Research and Development Centers, University Affiliated Research Centers, and Industry, in order to understand the broader efforts involving unmanned systems, autonomy, and artificial intellig...
AI with AI: Unmanned Systems, AI, and the U.S. Navy, with CAPT Sharif Calfee, Part I
April 20, 2018 15:00 - 30 minutes - 41.5 MBAnna Williams joins Dave in welcoming CAPT Sharif Calfee for a two-part discussion on unmanned systems and artificial intelligence. As part of his fellowship research, CAPT Calfee has been speaking with organizations and subject matter experts across the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Government, Federally Funded Research and Development Centers, University Affiliated Research Centers, and Industry, in order to understand the broader efforts involving unmanned systems, autonomy, and artificial intellig...
AI with AI: Pushback on AI, Meta-learning, and Robot Expressions
April 13, 2018 16:00 - 34 minutes - 47.5 MBAndy and Dave cover a wide variety of topics this week, starting with two prominent examples of employees and researchers objecting to certain uses of AI technology. Andy and Dave then discuss a recent GAO report on AI, as well as France’s announcement to invest in AI. They also discuss AI in designing chemical synthesis pathways, AI in reading echocardiograms, meta-learning (learning how to learn in unsupervised learning), helping robots express themselves when they fail, and a collection o...
AI with AI: A Turing Test, the GAN Zoo, and Dreaming of Electric Sheep
April 06, 2018 14:00 - 29 minutes - 40.3 MBDave starts with a shocking revelation! Can you pass the test?? Andy and Dave then discuss MIT Tech Review’s EmTech Digital Conference, which highlighted the latest in AI research. Next, Andy and Dave discuss the rapid expansion of newly reported AI models, including the “GAN Zoo.” Venture capital funding in the U.S. suggests that the AI market may be cooling. Andy describes new insight into brain function that will likely lead to further AI breakthroughs. And after a discussion of an AI pla...
AI with AI: Driverless Vehicles, Digital Yeast, and Montezuma’s Revenge
March 30, 2018 14:00 - 35 minutes - 48.2 MBWith the news of the first death at the digital hands of a driverless vehicle, Andy and Dave discuss some of the broader issues surrounding the understanding and implementation of AI technology. In other news, they discuss the creation of a digital version of yeast (DCell) as a way to provide insight into the otherwise “black box” of AI. Then, after describing DeepMind’s efforts into using evolutionary Auto Machine Learning to discover neural network architectures, Andy and Dave discuss an e...
AI with AI: Hawking, Measuring “AI Capability” to the 9th Decimal Point, AI & Legal Liability, and Digital Creativity
March 23, 2018 14:00 - 33 minutes - 46.5 MBLarry Lewis, Director of CNA’s Center for Autonomy and AI, again sits in for Dave this week. He and Andy discuss: the recent passing of physicist Stephen Hawking (along with his “cautionary” views on AI); CNAS’s recent launch of a new Task Force on AI and National Security, Microsoft’s AI breakthrough in matching human performance translating news from Chinese to English; a report that looks at China’s “AI Dream” (and introduces an “AI Potential Index” to assess China’s AI capabilities compa...
AI with AI: Common Sense, Black Boxes, and Getting Robots to Teach Themselves
March 16, 2018 15:00 - 35 minutes - 48.3 MBLarry Lewis, Director of CNA’s Center for Autonomy and AI, sits in for Dave this week, as he and Andy discuss: a recent report that not all Google employees are happy with Google’s partnership with DoD (in developing a drone-footage-analyzing AI); research efforts designed to lift the lid – just a bit - on the so-called “black box” reasoning of neural-net-based AIs; some novel ways of getting robots/AIs to teach themselves; and an arcade-playing AI that has essentially “discovered” that if y...
AI with AI: Can Anything Stop the Malicious AI??
March 09, 2018 17:00 - 25 minutes - 35.4 MBAndy and Dave discuss a recently released report on the Malicious Use of AI: Forecasting, Prevention, and Mitigation, which describes scenarios where AI might have devious applications (hint: there’s a lot). They also discuss a recent report that describes the extent of missing data in AI studies, which makes it difficult to reproduce published results. Andy then describes research that looks into ways to alter information (in this case, classification of an image) to fool both AI and humans...
AI with AI: Insights Into Russian Developments in AI and Unmanned Systems
March 02, 2018 14:00 - 28 minutes - 38.7 MBAndy and Dave welcome Sam Bendett, a research analyst for CNA's Center for Strategic Studies, where he is a member of the Russia Studies Program. His work involves Russian defense and security technology and developments, Russian geopolitical influence in the former Soviet states, as well as Russian unmanned systems development, Russian naval capabilities and Russian decision-making calculus during military crises. Sam is in our studio to discuss recent Russian developments in AI and unmanne...
AI with AI: Talent, Gadgets, Collaboration, and Doggos
February 23, 2018 15:00 - 28 minutes - 39.6 MBIn another smattering of topics, Andy and Dave discuss the latest insight into the dispersion of global AI start-ups, as well as AI talent. They also describe a commercially available drone that can navigate landscapes and obstacles as it tracks a target. And they discuss an AI algorithm with “social skills” that can teach humans how to collaborate. After chat bots and Deep TAMER, Andy and Dave discuss a few recent videos, including one about door-opening dogs; and, Dave has a meltdown as he...
AI with AI: Synapses, Voynich, ELIZA, and Golem XIV
February 16, 2018 17:00 - 30 minutes - 42.1 MBAndy and Dave discuss a variety of topics, starting with a superconducting ‘synapse’ that could enable powerful future neuromorphic supercomputers. They discuss an attempt to use AI to decode the mysterious Voynich manuscript, and then move on to Hofstadter’s take on the shallowness of Google Translate (with mention of the ELIZA effect). After discussing DroNet’s drones that can learn to fly by watching a driving video, and updating the Domain-Adaptive Meta-Learning discussion where a robot ...
AI with AI: Lethal Autonomy and the Military Targeting Process, Part II
February 09, 2018 17:05 - 25 minutes - 34.4 MBAndy and Dave welcome back Larry Lewis, the Director for CNA's Center for Autonomy and Artificial Intelligence, and welcome Merel Ekelhof, a Ph.D. candidate at VU University Amsterdam and visiting scholar at Harvard Law School. Over the course of this two-part series, the group discusses the idea of "meaningful human control" in the context of the military targeting process, the increasing role of autonomous technologies (and that autonomy is not simply an issue "at the boom"), and the poten...
AI with AI: Lethal Autonomy and the Military Targeting Process, Part I
February 09, 2018 17:00 - 24 minutes - 33 MBAndy and Dave welcome back Larry Lewis, the Director for CNA's Center for Autonomy and Artificial Intelligence, and welcome Merel Ekelhof, a Ph.D. candidate at VU University Amsterdam and visiting scholar at Harvard Law School. Over the course of this two-part series, the group discusses the idea of "meaningful human control" in the context of the military targeting process, the increasing role of autonomous technologies (and that autonomy is not simply an issue "at the boom"), and the poten...
AI with AI: Generative Adversarial Networks Galore
February 02, 2018 17:00 - 28 minutes - 39.4 MBAndy and Dave discuss two recent AI announcements that employ generative adversarial networks: an AI algorithm that can crack classic encryption ciphers (without prior knowledge of English), and an AI algorithm that can “draw” (generate) an image based on simple text instructions. They start, however, with a discussion on the recent rash of autonomous (and semi-autonomous) vehicle incidents, and they also discuss “brain-on-a-chip” hardware, as well as a robot that can learn to do tasks by w...
AI with AI: Meta AI
January 26, 2018 14:00 - 26 minutes - 35.8 MBAndy and Dave cover a series of topics that evoke broader to connect with the “meta” questions about the role and nature of AI. They begin with Google’s Cloud AutoML announcement, which offers ways to more easily build your own AI. They discuss the announcement of AIs that “defeated” humans on a Standard University reading comprehension text, and the misrepresentation of that achievement. They discuss deep image reconstruction, with a neural net that “read minds” by piecing together images f...
AI with AI: Countering AI Classifiers, and Introducing Doubt to AI
January 19, 2018 12:00 - 29 minutes - 39.9 MBAndy and Dave discuss a newly announced method of attack on the speech-to-text capability DeepSpeech, which introduces noise to an audio waveform so that the AI does not hear the original message, but instead hears a message that the attacker intends. They also discuss the introduction of probabilistic models to AI as a way for AI to “embrace uncertainty” and make better decisions (or perhaps doubt whether or not humans should remain alive). And finally, Andy and Dave discuss some recent app...
AI with AI: Tacotron, Aesthetics, and a Musical Game
January 12, 2018 12:00 - 28 minutes - 39.7 MBAndy and Dave discuss “Tacotron 2,” the latest text-to-speech capability from Google that produces results nearly indistinguishable from human speech. They also discuss efforts at Google to create a Neural Image Assessment (NIMA), that not only can evaluate the quality of an image, but can also be trained to rate the aesthetics (as defined by the user) of an image. And after a look at some of the AI predictions for 2018, they play a musical game with two pieces of music – can Andy guess whic...
AI with AI: Top 100s, Workshops, Ethics, and Quantum Computing!
January 05, 2018 13:00 - 22 minutes - 30.3 MBAndy and Dave discuss a smorgasbord of topics, including: the “AI 100” top companies report; the implications of Google’s new AI Research Center in Beijing; a workshop from the National Academy of Science and the Intelligence Community Studies Board on the challenges of machine generation of analytic products from multi-source data; Ethically Aligned Design and the IEEE; Quantum Computing; and finally, some Kasparov-related materials. Click here for additional materials and more on Andy an...
AI with AI: NIPS, Docs, and Clips
December 29, 2017 13:00 - 24 minutes - 33.7 MBAndy and Dave continue their discussion on the 31st Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), covering Sokoban, chemical reactions, and a variety of video disentanglement and recognition capabilities. They also discuss a number of breakthroughs in medicine that involve artificial intelligence: a robot passing a medical licensing exam, an algorithm that can diagnose pneumonia better than expert radiologists, a venture between GE Healthcare and NVIDIA to tap into volum...
AI with AI: The Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) Conference
December 22, 2017 13:00 - 23 minutes - 32.9 MBAfter some brief speculation on the announcement from NASA (which was being held at the same time as this podcast was recorded), and after a quick discussion of AlphaGo Teach, Andy and Dave discuss the 31st Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS). With over 8000 attendees, 7 invited speakers, seminar and poster sessions, NIPS provides insight into the latest and greatest developments in deep learning, neural nets, and related fields. Click here for additional mate...