AI with AI: Artificial Intelligence with Andy Ilachinski

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AI 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. The views expressed here are those of the commentators and do not necessarily reflect the views of CNA or any of its sponsors.

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Rebroadcast: What is AI?

CNA’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. Click here to visit our w...

Sep 04, 2020•45 min

Highway to the Danger Zone

With Season 3 drawing to a close, Andy and Dave decided to focus this discussion entirely on the latest results from DARPA’s Air Combat Evolution (ACE) program. On 20 August, DARPA held a contest between 8 competitors, and pitted their AI agents in simulated combat against each other, and against a human pilot (who used a VR system). Heron Systems won the event, beating out the other AI agents, and also not allowing the human pilot to attain a valid targeting solution. Andy and Dave discuss the ...

Aug 28, 2020•18 min

Elementary, Dear GPT

In COVID-related AI news, Andy and Dave discuss survey from Amazon Web Surveys that examines the current status of Internet of Things applications related to COVID-19, include scenarios that might help to reduce the severity of an outbreak. MIT publishes an combinatorial machine learning method to maximize the coverage of a COVID-19 vaccine. In “quick takes” on research, Andy and Dave discuss research from Microsoft, University of Washington, and UC Irvine, which provides a checklist to help ide...

Aug 21, 2020•44 min

Remember, Remember, the Fakes of November

In COVID-related AI news, Andy and Dave discuss an article from Wired that describes how COVID confounded most predictive models (such as finance). And NIST investigates the effect of face masks on facial recognition software. In regular-AI news, CSET and the Bipartisan Policy Center release a report on “AI and National Security,” the first of four “meant to be a roadmap for Washington’s future efforts on AI.” The Intelligence Community releases its AI Ethics Principles and AI Ethics Framework. ...

Aug 07, 2020•39 min

Bots Behaving Badly

In COVID-related AI news, Tencent AI Labs publishes a “machine learning” model that can predict the risk of a coronavirus patient developing severe illness. Unsupervised machine learning on data from the U.K.’s COVID Symptom Tracker, which has more than 4 million users, suggests patients cluster into roughly 6 different symptom types. Amazon Web Services releases its version of a scientific literature search on COVID-19. Aminer.org offers an open access knowledge graph of COVID-19. And “Digital ...

Aug 07, 2020•38 min

Atlas Surveilled

In COVID-related AI news, Andy and Dave discuss research that provides a comprehensive survey on applications of AI in fighting COVID-19. The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI and the AI Initiative at the Future Society launch a global alliance: Collective and Augmented Intelligence against COVID-19 (CAIAC). MIT and the IBM Watson AI Lab publish a paper that suggests a computational limit to progress in deep learning. The Atlas of Surveillance provides an open-source look at technologies ...

Jul 31, 2020•40 min

Life Is Like a Box of Matrices

Andy and Dave start with COVID-related AI news, and efforts from the Roche Data Science Coalition for UNCOVER (the United Network for COVID-19 Data Exploration and Research), which includes a dataset of a curated collection of over 200 publicly available COVID-19 related datasets; efforts from Akai Kaeru are included. The Biomedical Engineering Society publishes an overview of emerging technologies to combat COVID-19. Zetane Systems uses machine learning to search the DrugVirus database and info...

Jul 24, 2020•37 min

A Tesseract to Follow

In COVID-related AI news, Purdue University has built a website that tracks global response to social distancing, by pulling live footage and images from over 30,000 cameras in 100 countries. Simon Fong, Nilanjan Dey, and Jyotismita Chaki have published Artificial Intelligence for Coronavirus Outbreak, which examines AI’s contribution to combating COVID-19. Researchers at Harvard and Boston Children’s Hospital use a “regular” Bayesian model to identify COVID-19 hotspots over 14 days before they ...

Jul 17, 2020•40 min

Crime & Publishment

It’s a week of huge announcements! But first, in COVID-related AI news, Andy and Dave discuss a review paper in Chaos, Solitons, and Fractals that provides a more international focus on the role of AI and ML in COVID research. CSAIL teams with Ava Robotics to design a robot that maneuver between waypoints and disinfect surfaces of warehouses with UV-C light. C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute awards $5.4M to 26 AI researchers for projects related to COVID-19. In non-COVID news, the Associati...

Jul 10, 2020•39 min

Dust in the Mind

For COVID-related AI news, Andy and Dave discuss the Stanford Social Innovation Review report on the problem with COVD-19 AI solutions (e.g., data gaps, inconsistency, etc), and how to fix them. The National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts (NESTA) provides a thorough report on AI and COVID-19, whose findings generally suggest that barriers might exist for the employment of AI in tackling COVID-19. In regular AI news, the US has its first known case of an erroneous arrest due to fac...

Jul 03, 2020•32 min

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