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All Good Things from 2023-02-24T16:36
For the final (for now?) episode of AI with AI, Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news and research, including a political declaration from the US Department of State on t...
ListenUp, Up, and Autonomy! from 2023-02-10T18:43
Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news and research, including the update of the Department of Defense Directive 3000.09 on Autonomy in Weapon Systems. NIST releases the f...
ListenThe Kwicker Man from 2022-12-16T17:44
Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news and research, including the release of the US National Defense Authorization Act for FY2023, which includes over 200 mentions of “AI” and many more re...
ListenBattledrone Galactica from 2022-12-02T14:00
Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news and research, including the introduction of a lawsuit against Microsoft, GitHub and OpenAI for allegedly violating copyright law by reproducing open-s...
ListenThe AI Who Loved Me from 2022-11-25T13:25
Drawing Outside the Box from 2022-11-04T16:31
Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI-related news and research, including a bill from the EU that will make it easier for people to sue AI companies for harm or damages caused by AI-related te...
ListenRebroadcast: AI-chemy 2: This Time It's Personal (Part 2) from 2022-10-07T15:34
Dr. Anya Fink from CNA’s Russia Studies program joins the podcas...
ListenKeep Watching the AIs! from 2022-09-23T16:44:54
Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news and research, starting with a publication from the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre, providing a set of security principles for developers implemen...
ListenNOMARS Attacks! from 2022-09-09T16:32:45
Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news and research, starting with DARPA moving into Phase 2 of its No Manning Required Ship (NOMARS) program, having selected Serco Inc for its Defiant ship...
ListenEPIC BLOOM from 2022-08-26T14:05:01
Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI and autonomy news and research, including an announcement that the Federal Trade Commission is exploring rules for cracking down on harmful commercial surv...
ListenSearching for Robot Pincher from 2022-08-12T17:58:54
Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news and research, including an announcement from DeepMind that it is freely providing a database of 200+ million protein structures as predicted by AlphaF...
ListenAI-chemy 2: This Time It's Personal (Part 2) from 2022-07-29T16:24:55
Dr. Anya Fink from CNA’s Russia Studies program joins the podca...
ListenAI-chemy 2: This Time It's Personal from 2022-07-15T15:53:47
Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news and research, including an update from DARPA on its Machine Common Sense program, demonstrating rapidly adapting to changing terrain, carrying dynamic...
Listenthe sentience of the lamdas from 2022-07-02T01:00:01
Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news and research, starting with the Department of Defense releasing its Responsible AI Strategy. In the UK, the Ministry of Defence publishes its Defence ...
ListenRAI, consumers’ co-operative from 2022-06-17T13:00:16
CNA colleagues Kaia Haney and Heather Roff join Andy and Dave to discuss Responsible AI. They discuss the recent Inclusive National Security seminar on AI and National Security: Gender, Race, an...
ListenTop Gan: Swarmaverick from 2022-06-03T17:06:29
Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news and research, starting with an announcement that DoD will be updating its Directive 3000.09 on “Autonomous Weapons,” with the new Emerging Capabilitie...
ListenEl Gato Altinteligento from 2022-05-20T16:10:14
Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news and research, starting with the European Parliament adopting the final recommendations of the Special Committee on AI in a Digital Age (AIDA), finding...
ListenLeggo my Stego! from 2022-05-06T18:45:57
Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news and search, including a report from the Government Accountability Office, recommending that the Department of Defense should improve its AI strategies...
ListenThe Amulet of NeRFdor from 2022-04-22T17:29:27
Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news and research, including a proposal from the Ada Lovelace Institute with 18 recommendations to strengthen the EU AI Act. [0:57] NVidia updates its Neur...
ListenBridge on the River NukkAI from 2022-04-08T13:35:50
Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news and research, including DoD’s 2023 budget for research, engineering, development, and testing at $130B, around 9.5% higher than the previous year. DARPA ...
ListenA PIG GR_PH from 2022-03-25T15:36:53
Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news and research, including an announcement that Ukraine’s defense ministry has begun to use Clearview AI’s facial recognition technology and that Clearview ...
ListenSlightly Unconscionable from 2022-03-11T14:00:04
Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news and research, including a GAO report on AI – Status of Developing and Acquiring Capabilities for Weapon Systems [1:01]. The U.S. Army has awarded a contr...
ListenShort Circuit RACER from 2022-02-25T14:37:05
Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news and research, starting with the Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit Automation System (ALIAS) program from DARPA, which flew a UH-60A Black Hawk autonomously and...
ListenXenopus in Boots from 2022-02-11T17:33:40
Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news and research, including a report from the School of Public Health in Boston that shows why most “data for good” initiatives failed to impact the COVID...
ListenThree Amecas! from 2022-01-14T19:33:41
Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news and research, including the signing of the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act, which contains a number of provisions related to AI and emerging t...
ListenRebroadcast: AI Today, Tomorrow,&Forever from 2021-12-31T22:20:50
Andy and Dave welcome the hosts of the weekly podcast AI Today, Kathleen Walch and Ronald Schmelzer. On AI Today, Kathleen and Ron discuss topics related to how AI is m...
ListenIs it alive or is it Xeno-rex? from 2021-12-17T19:35:22
Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news and research, starting with the US Department of Defense creating a new position of the Chief Digital and AI Officer, subsuming the Joint AI Center, t...
ListenRevenge of the AWS from 2021-12-03T18:08:37
Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news and research, [0:53] starting with OpenAI’s announcement that it is making GPT-3 generally available through its API (though developers still require ...
ListenThe Ode to Decoy from 2021-11-05T14:36:51
Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news and research, including: NATO releases its first AI strategy, which included the announcement of a one billion euro “NATO innovation fund.” [0:52] Mil...
ListenWhere the Dan Board Are from 2021-10-08T18:01:22
Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news and research, including, the UK government releases its National AI Strategy, a 10-year plan to make the country a global AI superpower [1:28]. Stanfo...
ListenChasing AIMe from 2021-10-01T20:02:49
Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news and research, including:
[1:28] Researchers from several universities in biomedicine establish the AIMe registry, a community-driven reporting ...
ListenAI Today Podcast: Interview with Andy Ilachinski and David Broyles, hosts of the AI with AI podcast from 2021-09-24T13:00
Andy and Dave were recently interviewed on the AI Today podcast.
On the AI Today podcast we regularly interview thought leaders who are implementing AI and cognitive technology at ...
Horrorscope from 2021-09-17T18:17:11
Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news and research, including:
0:57: The Allen Institute for AI and others come together to create a publicly available “COVID-19 Challenges and Dire...
ListenPet Shop Bots: BEHAVIOR from 2021-09-10T20:18:39
Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news and research, including:
0:46: The GAO releases a more extensive report on US Federal agency use of facial recognition technol...
ListenThe WHO AI: I Can’t Explain (My Generation) from 2021-09-03T16:39:12
Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news, including an overview of Tesla’s “AI Day,” which among other things, introduced the Dojo supercomputers specialized for ML, the HydraNet single deep-...
ListenBeauty Is in the AI of the Perceiver from 2021-08-27T17:56:53
Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news, including an upgraded version of OpenAI’s CoPilot, called, Codex, which can not only complete code but creates it as well (based on natural language ...
ListenAI Today, Tomorrow,&Forever from 2021-08-20T12:00
Andy and Dave welcome the hosts of the weekly podcast AI Today, Kathleen Walch and Ronald Schmelzer. On AI Today, Kathleen and Ron discuss topics related to how AI is making impacts around the g...
ListenXLand, Simulation of Sweet Adventures from 2021-08-13T18:20:10
Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news, including a story from MIT Technology Review (which echoes observations made previously on AI with AI) that “hundreds of AI tools have been built to ...
ListenRebroadcast: the social bot network from 2021-08-06T15:51:10
Andy and Dave kick off Season 4.0 of AI with AI with a discussion on social media bots. CNA colleagues Meg McBride and Kasey Stricklin join to discuss the results of their recent research effort...
ListenThe AI Is Smarter on the Other Side of the FENCE from 2021-07-30T18:16:10
Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news and research, including the new DARPA FENCE program (Fast Event-based Neuromorphic Camera and Electronics), which seeks to create event-based cameras ...
ListenRebroadcast: The Robohattan Project from 2021-07-23T17:25:42
GPT Is My CoPilot from 2021-07-16T16:43:16
Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news, including a report that the Israel Defense Forces used a swarm of small drones in mid-May in Gaza to locate, identify, and attack Hamas militants, us...
ListenJourney to the Cause of Reason from 2021-07-09T18:27:04
Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news, including research from the San Diego School of Medicine, which used an AI algorithm to analyze terabytes of gene expression data in response to vira...
ListenRebroadcast: Xen and the Art of Motorcell Maintenance from 2021-07-02T15:46:38
Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news, including the European Commission’s proposal for the regulation of AI. A report in Nature Medicine examines the limitations...
ListenReward of the Coprophages from 2021-06-25T17:18:47
Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news, including the launch of the National AI Research Resource Task Force, which will serve as a federal advisory committee and produce at least two repor...
ListenNo Time to AI from 2021-06-18T13:00
Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news, starting with the US Consumer Products Safety Commission report on AI and ML. The Deputy Secretary of Defense outlines Responsible AI Tenets, along w...
ListenSomeday My ‘Nets Will Code from 2021-06-11T17:02:43
Information about the AI Event Series mentioned in this episode: https://twitter.com/CNA_org/status/1400808135544213505?s=2...
ListenJust the Tip of the Skyborg from 2021-06-04T17:58:48
Information about the AI Event Series mentioned in this episode: https://twitter.com/CNA_org/status/1400808135544213505?s=2...
ListenRebroadcast: A.I. in the Sky from 2021-05-28T18:47:52
Superhumans from 2021-05-14T16:14:27
Andy's out this week, but Dave recently had a chance to do a series of interviews on a paper that he wrote, Superhumans, Implications of genetic engineering and human-centered bioengineering. So...
ListenMnemosyne That Before from 2021-05-07T18:28:31
Andy and Dave discuss the latest AI news and research, including a blog post from the Federal Trade Commission that businesses can and will be held accountable for the fairness of their algorith...
ListenXen and the Art of Motorcell Maintenance from 2021-04-30T19:51:20
Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news, including the European Commission’s proposal for the regulation of AI. A report in Nature Medicine examines the limitations of the evaluation process...
ListenDonkey Pong from 2021-04-23T18:21:42
Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news, including the National Intelligence Council’s 7th Edition Global Trends 2040 Report, which sprinkles the importance of AI and ML throughout future tr...
ListenGuise of the Machines from 2021-04-09T18:19:03
Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news, including a report that systematically examined 62 studies on COVID-19 ML methods (from a pool o 2200+ studies), and found that none of the models we...
ListenThe Earth Dies Dreaming from 2021-04-02T18:35
Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news, including a letter from the National Transportation Safety Board that asks the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to regulate more strict...
ListenDiplomachine from 2021-03-26T16:48:57
Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news, including the release of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps Unmanned Campaign Framework, which describes the desired approach to developing and deploying...
ListenDatalore SemaFor from 2021-03-19T17:22:23
Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news, including an announcement from Facebook AI that it achieved state of the art computer vision performance with its SEER model, by learning from one bi...
ListenSchrödinger’s Slime Mold from 2021-03-12T16:03:29
Andy and Dave discuss the latest AI news, which includes lots of new reports, starting with the release of the final report of the National Security Commission on AI, with over 750 pages that ou...
ListenThe Little Ingenuity That Could from 2021-03-05T17:18:11
Andy and Dave discuss the latest AI news including, Mars landing of the Perseverance and its AI-related capabilities, along with its mini-helicopter, Ingenuity. Researchers from Liverpool use ma...
ListenThe Low-Res Valley from 2021-02-26T17:29:30
In AI news, researchers from the University of Copenhagen develop a machine learning model that estimates the chances of risk of death due to COVID at various stages of a hospital stay, includin...
ListenD.E.R.Y.L. from 2021-02-19T19:22:53
In news, Andy and Dave discuss a machine learning algorithm from Synergies Intelligent System and Universität Hamburg that can identify people in a moving crowd who are mostly likely asymptomati...
ListenTempus Fluit from 2021-02-12T17:23:10
In COVID-related AI news, Andy and Dave discuss research from Texas &AM, Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and SNY Binghamton, which demonstrates an automatic system for monitoring the physical distance and ...
ListenSokoban, and Thanks for All the Fish! from 2021-02-05T18:46:01
Listener Survey
In COVID-related AI news, Andy and Dave discuss a machine learning transformer model from Facebook AI and the NYU S...
In the Year 20XX: 100th Episode Celebration! from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Happy 100th Episode to AI with AI! Andy and Dave celebrate the 100th episode of the AI with AI podcast, starting with a new theme song, inspired by the Mega Man series of games. Andy and Dave ta...
ListenA Mind Forever Voyaging Part 1 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
OpenAI 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 ...
ListenOde to the Joy of pAInting from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Andy 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 announ...
ListenSelf-aware Bag of Atomic Camels from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
For 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 w...
ListenDarcraft Shadows from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In 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 ...
ListenWhat is AI? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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 res...
ListenUndecidable: They Called Me Mr. GAN from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Andy 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 fi...
ListenFrom Russia with UAV from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Anna 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 ...
ListenWhen This Savvy Slime Mold Encountered a Morphogenic Robotic Swarm, You Won't Believe What Happened Next...! from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Andy 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 fo...
ListenDistilled Data: 200 Proofs from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In 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 academi...
ListenEleventh Voyage into Morphospace from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The 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 learnin...
ListenAI with AI: Montezuma’s Regulation from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
This 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 ma...
ListenAI with AI: It Can Only Be Attributable to Human Error from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In 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 an...
ListenAI with AI: It’s Neurons All the Way Down from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Andy 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 ...
ListenHow Machines Judge Humans from 2021-01-29T21:00:57
Listener Survey
In COVID-related AI news, Andy and Dave discuss research that uses NLP to predict mutations in a virus that would a...
The Persistence of Memor-E from 2021-01-22T18:09:18
In COVID-related AI news, Andy and Dave discuss an editorial in The Lancet Digital Health, which examines whether preliminary models add clinical value to health-care systems. In regular AI news...
ListenAlways Look on the Bright Side of Life from 2021-01-15T19:44:11
In COVID-related news, Andy and Dave discuss a commercial AI model from Biocogniv that predicts COVID-19 infection using only blood tests, with a 95% sensitivity and a 49% specificity. In a stor...
ListenPork Rewinds from 2021-01-08T17:32:40
Just in time for the holidays, Andy and Dave look back and some of the more memorial AI-related stories from 2020. They begin with the passing of mathematician John Conway, creator of The Game o...
ListenThe 4-Bit Blopera from 2021-01-01T14:00
In COVID-related AI news, Andy and Dave discuss the results of the C3.ai COVID-19 challenge. In regular AI news, the US Air Force announces an AI, ARTUm, controlling a military plane for the fir...
ListenWill You, Won’t You Join the DANs? from 2020-12-18T19:52:07
In COVID-related AI news, Andy and Dave discuss a report from MIT that identifies gaps in coverage from COVID vaccines, and uses machine learning to identify peptide additions to increase their ...
ListenPoetein Folding from 2020-12-11T18:28:53
In COVID-related AI news, Andy and Dave discuss a Facebook model that provides county-level forecasts on the spread of COVID-19. IN non-COVID AI news, DeepMind’s AlphaFold 2 won the 14th biennia...
ListenA.I. in the Sky from 2020-11-20T19:02:08
Andy and Dave welcome Arthur Holland Michel to the podcast for a discussion on predictability and understandability in military AI. Arthur is an Associate Researcher at the United Nations Instit...
ListenThe Rosetta Drone from 2020-11-13T19:23:15
In COVID-related AI news, MIT researchers have published a machine learning algorithm that can diagnose COVID-19 by the sounds of a person’s forced cough. And the US Veterans Affairs Department ...
ListenThunderbots from 2020-11-06T16:30:36
Sam Bendett joins Andy and Dave to discuss the latest developments and happenings in Russia's research into artificial intelligence and autonomy capabilities. They discuss Russia's national stra...
ListenLone Hacker and Child from 2020-10-30T18:05:42
In COVID-related AI news, Andy and Dave discuss the COVID-19 Grand Challenge from C3.ai. In non-COVID AI news, the Department of Defense releases its Data Strategy. The Defense Science Board pub...
ListenPROGRESS Out of the Blue from 2020-10-23T14:49:49
Andy and Dave have a chat with Chad Jenkins, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan, Director of the Laboratory for Perception, RObotics, and Grounded REason...
ListenThe Robohattan Project from 2020-10-16T14:47:16
The bipartisan Future of Defense Task Force releases its 2020 report, which includes the suggestion of using the Manhattan Project as a model to develop AI technologies. Facebook AI releases Dy...
ListenTell-Tale Heart from 2020-10-09T15:05:55
In COVID-related AI news, Youyang Gu provides world- and county-level COVID-19 predictions using machine learning, along with a rolling examination of accuracy. In regular AI news, a military co...
Listenthe social bot network from 2020-10-02T16:46:44
Andy and Dave kick off Season 4.0 of AI with AI with a discussion on social media bots. CNA colleagues Meg McBride and Kasey Stricklin join to discuss the results of their recent research effort...
ListenCONSORTing with the GPT from 2020-09-25T16:49:26
In COVID-related AI news, another concerning report, this time in Nature Medicine, found “serious concerns” with 20,000 studies on AI systems in clinical trials, with many reporting only the bes...
Listen[Abstraction Intensifies] from 2020-09-18T16:42:21
In COVID-related AI news, a report from Cambridge University and University of Manchester examines recent studies on using chest x-rays and CTs scans to detect and diagnose COVID, and finds that...
ListenSome Pigsel from 2020-09-11T17:38:32
In COVID-related AI news, Andy and Dave discuss an effort from Google and Harvard to provide county-level forecasts on COVID-19 for hospitals and first responders. The National Library of Medici...
ListenRebroadcast: What is AI? from 2020-09-04T17:32:53
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 res...
ListenHighway to the Danger Zone from 2020-08-28T17:39:39
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 contes...
ListenElementary, Dear GPT from 2020-08-21T17:16:24
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 mig...
ListenRemember, Remember, the Fakes of November from 2020-08-07T17:02:02
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...
ListenBots Behaving Badly from 2020-08-07T14:09:31
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...
ListenAtlas Surveilled from 2020-07-31T14:17:39
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 ...
ListenLife Is Like a Box of Matrices from 2020-07-24T14:06:20
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 da...
ListenA Tesseract to Follow from 2020-07-17T16:41:19
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. Si...
ListenCrime&Publishment from 2020-07-10T17:32:07
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...
ListenDust in the Mind from 2020-07-03T13:00
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....
ListenD/Generative from 2020-06-26T14:42:19
In COVID-related news, Nature publishes a review of COVID-19 AI tools, emphasizing that most tools are still in development and largely unproven. Inserm selects Expert System’s AI support for it...
ListenOura-boros from 2020-06-19T13:00
In COVID-related AI news, Andy and Dave discuss an announcement from WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute, WVU Medicine, and Oura Health, with the ability to predict COVID-19 related symptoms ...
ListenThe GPT Blob from 2020-06-12T15:35:08
In this week’s COVID-related AI news, Andy and Dave discuss “SciFact” from the Allen Institute for AI, which built on neural network VeriSci and can link to supporting or refuting materials for ...
ListenEye, Pac-Bot from 2020-06-05T17:26:37
In COVID-related AI news, Andy and Dave discuss work from Mount Sinai researchers, who have created an AI system that uses CT scans to diagnose patients with COVID-19. MIT and IBM Watson announc...
ListenAfterburn-in from 2020-05-29T17:41:31
In COVID-19-related AI news, Andy and Dave discuss the Novel Coronavirus Research Compendium, a curated resource from Kate Grabowski, an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins, with the goal of providi...
ListenHurriCOVID Season from 2020-05-22T16:30:52
In COVID-related AI news, Andy and Dave discuss an approach from FiveThirtyEight that uses a mini-model-ensemble to predict possible trajectories for the COVID-19 death toll. MIT Tech Review has...
ListenFinding Lenia from 2020-05-15T15:44:33
Andy and Dave discuss a white paper from the National Security Commission on AI, on Privacy and Ethics Recommendations for Computing Applications Developed to Mitigate COVID-19. The Office of th...
ListenThe Brainy Bunch from 2020-05-08T15:27:09
In COVID-related AI news, hospitals across the US are using an AI system called Deterioration Index to provide a snapshot of patients’s risks, even though the software has not yet been validated...
ListenThis is Feyn from 2020-05-01T17:37:03
Andy and Dave discuss the initial results from King’s College London’s COVID Symptom Tracker, which found fatigue, loss of taste and smell, and cough to be the most common symptoms. MIT’s CSAIL ...
ListenThe COVID Game of Life from 2020-04-24T16:35:29
In COVID-related AI research, Andy and Dave discuss the joint announcement from Apple and Google on creating a voluntary COVID-19 tracing system that makes use of Bluetooth and anonymous crypto ...
ListenNever Give Up from 2020-04-17T16:12:45
In COVID-related AI topics, Andy and Dave discuss an emerging crop (no less than three!) of COVID-19 cough detectors that attempt to diagnose the presence of COVID by various voice measurements....
ListenCOVium-Gatherum from 2020-04-10T17:24:28
Jvion has provided an online mapping tool to view regions of the United States and see the areas most vulnerable to issues related to COVID, a “COVID Vulnerability Map.” A video clip from Tecton...
ListenRIDE of the COV-all-cures from 2020-04-03T17:29:34
In COVID-related news, Andy and Dave discuss CloseLoop.ai and its release of an open-source toolkit for predicting people vulnerable to COVID-19. A Korean biotech company, Seegene, announces tha...
ListenWe’ve Got You COVID from 2020-03-27T18:09:17
Not surprisingly, COVID-19 has taken over the news section, but still as it all relates to AI and machine learning. Andy and Dave discuss the COVID-19 Open Research Data Set, a free resource of ...
ListenNOAA’s Arcade from 2020-03-20T18:09:09
In news items, Andy and Dave discuss an effort by Boston Children’s Hospital to use machine learning to help track the spread of COVID-19. Meanwhile, a proposal from researchers wants to use mob...
ListenDyson's Punch-out!! from 2020-03-13T19:38:45
In news, Andy and Dave discuss announcements from two Chinese firms that have developed AI that can identify COVID-19 infections with high accuracy. And the Francis Crick Institute makes DeepMin...
ListenOverthought Plumbing from 2020-03-06T18:34:02
The U.S. Department of Defense Chief Information Officer formally announces that DoD will adopt the Defense Innovation Board’s recommendations on five principles for AI. MIT research have used m...
ListenThe Final Sunbrawler from 2020-02-27T21:56:19
Andy and Dave discuss the recent announcement that the U.S. Department of Defense announces that it will adopt the Defense Innovation Board’s detailed principles for using AI. The European Commi...
ListenWhere NOMARS Has Gone Before from 2020-02-20T22:24:33
Andy and Dave discuss the President’s 2021 Budget Request, which increases funding for AI but decreases funding to science in general. Google releases Jigsaw, a tool to spot faked and doctored i...
ListenThe Unreasonable Perplexity of Fat Tails from 2020-02-14T16:13:17
Andy and Dave discuss an announcement from Exscientia and Sumitomo that they have the first entirely-AI developed drug that is now entering clinical trials. The Director of the Joint Artificial ...
ListenGremlin Pie! from 2020-02-07T19:13:37
Happy Pi-cast! Andy and Dave discuss some of the stories that have followed the New York Times articles on Clearview AI, to include Twitter telling the company to stop using its photos, and a co...
ListenPrivate AIs, They’re Watching You from 2020-01-31T18:59:46
In a string of related news items on facial recognition, Andy and Dave discuss San Diego’s reported experiences with facial recognition over the last 7 years (coming to an end on 1 January 2020 ...
ListenFakers of the Lost Architecture from 2020-01-17T17:53:50
Andy and Dave discuss a new White House proposal on Principles for AI Regulation. A NIST study examines the effects of race, age, and sex on recognition software and identifies a variety of trou...
ListenHit the Wall: Do Not Play GO (Part II) from 2020-01-10T20:10:01
In research, Andy and Dave discuss a new idea from Schmidhuber, which introduces Upside-Down reinforcement learning, where no value functions or policy search are necessary, essentially transfor...
ListenHit the Wall: Do Not Play GO (Part I) from 2020-01-03T17:31:33
Andy and Dave discuss Lee Sodol’s announcement that he is quitting playing Go because AI “cannot be defeated.” Facebook’s Head of AI says the field will soon “hit the wall” (or does he?). A huma...
ListenAttack of the Clouds from 2019-12-20T17:10:25
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy releases its 2016-2019 Progress Report on Advancing AI R&D. SkyNet publishes “AI Coverage Best Practices, According to AI Researchers.” Th...
ListenSinGAN in the Rain from 2019-12-13T17:57:34
Andy and Dave discuss OpenAI’s update to an earlier summary of how computational resources have increased to reach each new AI breakthrough. The National Transportation Safety Board releases its...
Listen20,000 Layers Under the CNN from 2019-12-06T17:55:16
Andy and Dave discuss the full release of the algorithm that originally had to be locked up for the safety of humanity (GPT-2). NATO releases its final reports on the implications of AI for NATO...
ListenSome Superintelligent Assembly Required from 2019-11-29T16:00
In news, the Defense Innovation Board releases AI Principles: Recommendations on the Ethical Use of AI by the Department of Defense. The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s National...
ListenWhen You Wish Upon an AlphaStar from 2019-11-22T17:31:38
In the news, Andy and Dave discuss the interim report from the National Security Commission on AI. DARPA’s new OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics (OFFSET) program takes a look at swarm behavior. An...
ListenWeirder Things from 2019-11-15T16:17:52
Facebook announces the Deepfake Detection Challenge, a rolling contest to develop technology to detect deepfakes. The US Senate passes the Deepfake Report Act, bipartisan legislation to understa...
ListenThe Quantum Menace from 2019-11-08T17:23:21
In news items, Microsoft wins bid for the Pentagon’s $10B Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract. DARPA’s Spectrum Collaboration Challenge (SC2), which aimed to create devices t...
ListenNewton & the 3-Body Problem from 2019-11-01T16:57:07
Andy and Dave discuss the AI-related supplemental report to the President’s Budget Request. The California governor signs a bill banning facial recognition use by the state’s law enforcement age...
ListenJAICs on a Plane with a Cube of the Rubik from 2019-10-25T17:26:15
Welcome to Season 3.0! Andy and Dave discuss the AI in Advancement Advisory Council’s State of AI Advancement report, which takes a look at the impact of AI on roles within advancement. Research...
ListenThe (Creepy) Aristobots (part 2) from 2019-10-18T18:16:59
This week, Microsoft Research and University of Montreal show that machines can learn through interactive language by answering questions (question answering with interactive text, or QAit). The...
ListenThe (Creepy) Aristobots (Part 1) from 2019-10-11T18:05:20
Andy and Dave discuss the U.S. Air Force’s recently released AI strategy. NATO releases a draft reports on the implications of AI for NATO forces. A report collects 2,602 uses of AI for social g...
ListenFrom A to Z from 2019-10-03T20:34:01
Two special guests join Andy and Dave for a discussion about research in AI and autonomy. First, Dr. Andrea Gilli is a researcher at the NATO Defense College in Rome, where he works on defense i...
ListenGhost in the Mirror from 2019-09-27T16:20:41
Andy and Dave discuss research from DeepMind, University College London, and Oxford, that shows that human mental replay spontaneously reorganizes experience, implied by abstract knowledge, and ...
ListenDARPAs Are Forever from 2019-09-20T17:33:10
Andy and Dave discuss the establishment of the Artificial Intelligence and Technology Office under the U.S. Department of Energy. DARPA announces Context Reas...
ListenNervana: In Silico from 2019-09-13T17:40:46
Andy and Dave discuss the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center’s efforts to tackle deep fakes through DARPA’s Media Forensics program, as well as the announcement that the JAIC’s biggest project...
ListenThe Call of Aftershocktopus (Part 2) from 2019-08-30T15:12:35
Researchers at Berkeley, Washington, and Chicago identify “natural adversarial” examples that cause classifier accuracy to significantly degrade, likely due to an over-reliance on color, texture...
ListenThe Call of Aftershocktopus (Part 1) from 2019-08-23T20:36:39
The National Security Commission on AI solicits creative and original ideas to challenge the status quo assumptions on maintaining US global leadership in AI. Researchers at MIT and Colgate publ...
ListenThrough the Looking Glass (Part 2) from 2019-08-16T16:18:15
The University of Singapore creatures an artificial skin that can sense temperature, pressure, and humidity. The International Center for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities releases its Evalu...
ListenThrough the Looking Glass (Part 1) from 2019-08-09T19:55:21
Andy and Dave discuss the Digital Modernization Strategy that the US Department of Defense released on 12 July 2019. Todd Austin at the University of Michigan presents research at a conference o...
ListenThe Shadow of What Is Going to Be (Part 2) from 2019-08-02T18:02:07
Continuing in research, Andy and Dave discuss research from Imperial College and the Samsung AI Centre, which can take a single image of any face, and create realistic speech-driven facial anima...
ListenThe Shadow of What Is Going to Be (Part 1) from 2019-07-26T18:37:46
Andy and Dave discuss a scathing report on Scotland Yard’s facial recognition software, which researchers at the University of Essex found to have an 81% error rate (but that the Met Police say ...
ListenThe Fake That Launched 1,000 Clips (Part 2) from 2019-07-18T21:24:50
More research from Berkeley and also University of Southern California creates a method to “protect” world leaders against deep fakes, by identifying, among other things, 17 Facial Action Units ...
ListenThe Fake That Launched 1,000 Clips (Part 1) from 2019-07-12T17:29:34
Andy and Dave discuss the update to the US National AI Research and Development Strategic Plan, which establishes 8 objectives for federally funded AI research. Meanwhile, the European Commissio...
ListenFor Your AIs Only from 2019-07-05T13:00
Russia expert Sam Bendett joins Andy and Dave for a discussion and update on Russia’s latest developments and efforts in AI and autonomy. The group discusses a 30 May meeting, ...
ListenWho Manipulates the Manipulators? (Part 2) from 2019-06-28T19:51:02
Researchers 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 Ins...
ListenWho Manipulates the Manipulators? (Part 1) from 2019-06-21T17:00
Andy 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 fa...
Listen52 Views of HOListic Imagination from 2019-06-14T20:28:46
In 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 in...
ListenWe All Live in a Neuro Subroutine (Side B) from 2019-06-07T17:36:36
Continuing 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;...
ListenWe All Live in a Neuro Subroutine (Side A) from 2019-05-31T15:30:49
Andy 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 ...
ListenElfnark’s Lottery Ticket from 2019-05-24T20:00
Andy 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 ...
ListenThe One about ‘Bots… from 2019-05-17T20:23:11
“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 ...
ListenSalvere Rex or Salve Getafix? from 2019-05-10T21:04:30
Professor 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...
ListenLAWS & DOTAr: Synthetic Voice Unit from 2019-05-03T19:00
Andy 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 Au...
ListenAstroBees in Your BonNAT from 2019-04-26T17:24:39
Andy 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 Total...
ListenBlack Hole Watson from 2019-04-19T16:39:42
Andy 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 Recon...
ListenTossBot’s Physics Residu-ALE, with SimPLe syrup from 2019-04-12T19:14:41
Andy 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...
ListenDoctor Omega and the Tsar’s Particle Bots from 2019-04-05T18:45:27
The 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; t...
ListenThe World Ends with Robots from 2019-03-29T19:25:11
Andy 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”...
ListenReflecting on Huginn and Muninn from 2019-03-22T18:34:08
Title: 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...
ListenBonus Episode: CNA Talks- Cybersecurity Futures 2025 from 2019-03-19T17:39:03
Liza 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 cyber...
ListenA Neural Reading rAInbow from 2019-03-15T19:15:43
Andy 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 commu...
ListenA Mind Forever Voyaging Part 2 from 2019-03-08T17:20:52
Columbia 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. D...
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