After raiding Usama Bin Laden’s compound, the government used artificial intelligence to discover future al-Qaida plans.
… “The large quantity of materials collected from the compound required time for a thorough review,” the CIA said in a report about the raid, adding the agency “led a multi-agency task force to prioritize, catalogue, and analyze them for intelligence about al-Qa`ida’s affiliates, plans and intentions and current threats.” Read More
Daily Archives: July 2, 2020
Google Duplex: A.I. Assistant Calls Local Businesses To Make Appointments
A deep reinforcement learning framework to identify key players in complex networks
Network science is an academic field that aims to unveil the structure and dynamics behind networks, such as telecommunication, computer, biological and social networks. One of the fundamental problems that network scientists have been trying to solve in recent years entails identifying an optimal set of nodes that most influence a network’s functionality, referred to as key players.
Identifying key players could greatly benefit many real-world applications, for instance, enhancing techniques for the immunization of networks, as well as aiding epidemic control, drug design and viral marketing. Due to its NP-hard nature, however, solving this problem using exact algorithms with polynomial time complexity has proved highly challenging.
Researchers at National University of Defense Technology in China, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and Harvard Medical School (HMS) have recently developed a deep reinforcement learning (DRL) framework, dubbed FINDER, that could identify key players in complex networks more efficiently. Read More
THE REVERSE CASCADE: Enforcing Security On The Global IoT Supply Chain
The Internet of Things (IoT) refers to the increasing con-vergence of the physical and digital worlds. Hundreds of “things” are being connected to the Internet and each other, with more than fifty billion devices ex-pected to be connected by 2030.1 These devices vary from Internet-connected power-generation equipment to wearable health trackers and smart home appliances, and generally offer some combination of new functionality, greater conve-nience, or cost savings to users.
… The United States has limited means to enforce its standards in foreign jurisdictions, like China, where the bulk of IoT products are manufactured.
… This paper proposes to apply regulatory pressure to do-mestic technology distributors to drive adoption of security standards throughout their supply chains. Read More
DARPA honors artificial intelligence expert
The irony of artificial intelligence is how much human brainpower is required to build it. For three years, our next guest had been on loan from the University of Massachusetts, to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. There’s she headed up several DARPA artificial intelligence projects. Now she’s been awarded a high honor, the Meritorious Public Service Medal. Dr. Hava Siegelmann joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin for more. Read More
YouTuber creates ‘new’ Iron Maiden song ‘Power Gravy’ using artificial intelligence
Iron Maiden might not have released original music for half a decade, but YouTuber Funk Turkey has employed artificial intelligence to create a track in imitation of the band entitled ‘Power Gravy’. Read More
The YouTuber has also used AI to parody: Nirvana, Red Hot Chile Peppers, AC/DC, and Metallica. Playlist
The State of AI Ethics Report (June 2020 — Montreal AI Ethics Institute)
These past few months have been especially challenging, and the deployment of technology in ways hitherto untested at an unrivaled pace has left the internet and technology watchers aghast. Artificial intelligence has become the byword for technological progress and is being used in everything from helping us combat the COVID-19 pandemic to nudging our attention in different directions as we all spend increasingly larger amounts of time online.
It has never been more important that we keep a sharp eye out on the development of this field and how it is shaping our society and interactions with each other. With this inaugural edition of the State of AI Ethics we hope to bring forward the most important developments that caught our attention at the Montreal AI Ethics Institute this past quarter. Our goal is to help you navigate this ever-evolving field swiftly and allow you and your organization to make informed decisions. Read More
AWS, Google, and Mozilla back national AI research cloud bill in Congress
A group of more than 20 organizations, including tech giants like AWS, Google, IBM, and Nvidia, joined schools like Stanford University and Ohio State University today in backing the idea of a national AI research cloud. Nonprofit groups like Mozilla and the Allen Institute for AI also support the idea. The cloud would help researchers across the United States gain access to compute power and data sets freely available to companies like Google, but not researchers in academia. Compute resources available to academics could grow even more scarce in the near future as COVID-19 fallout constricts university budgets. Read More
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