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00:32:16 AI with AI: Unmanned Systems, AI, and the U.S. Navy, with CAPT Sharif Calfee, Part II
AI with AI addAnna 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 intelligence. In the first part of their discussion, the group discusses the progress and the challenges that the CAPT has observed in his engagements. In the second part, the group discusses various steps that the U.S. Navy can take to move forward more deliberately, to include the consideration for a new Naval Reactors-like office to oversee AI.
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AI with AI: Unmanned Systems, AI, and the U.S. Navy, with CAPT Sharif Calfee, Part I
AI with AI addAnna 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 intelligence. In the first part of their discussion, the group discusses the progress and the challenges that the CAPT has observed in his engagements. In the second part, the group discusses various steps that the U.S. Navy can take to move forward more deliberately, to include the consideration for a new Naval Reactors-like office to oversee AI.
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- 00:34:36
AI with AI: Pushback on AI, Meta-learning, and Robot Expressions
AI with AI addAndy 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 of papers, graphic novels, and videos. By the end, Dave’s arms are flailing wildly!
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AI with AI: A Turing Test, the GAN Zoo, and Dreaming of Electric Sheep
AI with AI addDave 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 playing Battlefield 1, Andy and Dave close with a look at AIs learning in electric dreams, and a GAN that can lip sync a face to an audio-video clip.
- 00:35:07
AI with AI: Driverless Vehicles, Digital Yeast, and Montezuma’s Revenge
AI with AI addWith 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 example of how background knowledge (“priors”) transfers to the world of games, and how that compares with AI.
- 00:33:53
AI with AI: Hawking, Measuring “AI Capability” to the 9th Decimal Point, AI & Legal Liability, and Digital Creativity
AI with AI addLarry 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 compared to other nations); a second index, from a separate report, called the “Government AI Readiness Index,” which inexplicably excludes China from the top 35 ranked nations; and the issue of legal liability of AI systems. They conclude with call outs to a fun-to-read crowd-sourced paper written by researchers in artificial life, evolutionary computation, and AI that tells stories about the surprising creativity of digital evolution, and three videos: a free BBC-produced documentary on Stephen Hawking, a technical talk on deep learning, and a Q&A session with Elon Musk (that includes an exchange on AI).
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AI with AI: Common Sense, Black Boxes, and Getting Robots to Teach Themselves
AI with AI addLarry 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 you can’t win at the game, it is best to either kill yourself or cheat. The podcast ends with a nod to a new free online AI resource offered by Google, another open access book (this time on the subject of Robotics), and a fascinating video of Stephen Wolfram of Mathematica fame, lecturing about artificial general intelligence and the “computational universe” to a computer science class at MIT.
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AI with AI: Can Anything Stop the Malicious AI??
AI with AI addAndy 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. Dave has to repeat the research in order to understand the sheer depth of the terror that could be lurking below. Then Andy and DAve quickly discuss a new algorithm that can mimic any voice with just a few snippets of audio. The only non-terrifying topic they discuss involves an attempt to make Alexa more chatty. Even then, Dave decides that this effort will only result in a more-empty wallet.
- 00:28:10
AI with AI: Insights Into Russian Developments in AI and Unmanned Systems
AI with AI addAndy 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 unmanned systems, and to preview an upcoming Defense One summit called "Genius Machines," which he will be speaking at on March 7.
- 00:28:47
AI with AI: Talent, Gadgets, Collaboration, and Doggos
AI with AI addIn 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 fails to recall The Earth Stood Still, but instead substitutes a different celestial body. Klaatu barada nikto.
- 00:30:39
AI with AI: Synapses, Voynich, ELIZA, and Golem XIV
AI with AI addAndy 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 can learn a task by watching a video, they close with some recommendations of videos and books, including Lem’s ‘Golem XIV.’
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AI with AI: Lethal Autonomy and the Military Targeting Process, Part II
AI with AI addAndy 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 potential directions for future meetings of the U.N. Convention on Certain Weapons.
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AI with AI: Lethal Autonomy and the Military Targeting Process, Part I
AI with AI addAndy 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 potential directions for future meetings of the U.N. Convention on Certain Weapons.
- 00:28:43
AI with AI: Generative Adversarial Networks Galore
AI with AI addAndy 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 watching video.
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- 00:26:02
AI with AI: Meta AI
AI with AI addAndy 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 from a human’s visual cortex. And they close with discussions about Gary Marcus’s recent article, which offers a critical appraisal of Deep Learning, and a recent paper that suggests that convolutional neural nets may not be as good at “grasping” higher-level abstract concepts as is typically believed.”
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AI with AI: Countering AI Classifiers, and Introducing Doubt to AI
AI with AI addAndy 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 applications of AI to different areas of scientific study, particularly in the examination of very large data sets.
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- 00:28:53
AI with AI: Tacotron, Aesthetics, and a Musical Game
AI with AI addAndy 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 which piece Dave wrote, and which the AI composer AIVA, the Artificial Intelligence Virtual Artist, wrote?
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- 00:22:03
AI with AI: Top 100s, Workshops, Ethics, and Quantum Computing!
AI with AI addAndy 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.
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- 00:24:31
AI with AI: NIPS, Docs, and Clips
AI with AI addAndy 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 volumes of unrealized medical data, and deep-brain stimulation. Finally, for reading material and reference, Andy recommends a technical lecture on reinforcement learning, as well as two books on robot ethics.
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- 00:23:59
AI with AI: The Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) Conference
AI with AI addAfter 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.
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