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AI with AI: Artificial Intelligence with Andy Ilachinski

Aug 31, 2018

In breaking news, Andy and Dave discuss the Convention on Conventional Weapons meeting on lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWs) at the United Nations, where more than 70 countries are participating in the sixth meeting since 2014. Highlights include the priorities for discussion, as well as the UK delegation's...


Aug 24, 2018

The Director for CNA’s Center for Autonomy and AI, Dr. Larry Lewis, joins Dave for a discussion on understanding and mitigating the risks of using autonomy and AI in war. They discuss some of the commonly voiced risks of autonomy and AI, in application for war, but also in general application, which include: AI will...


Aug 17, 2018

In breaking news, Andy and Dave discuss the Dota 2 competition between the Open AI Five team of AIs and a top (99.95th percentile) human team, where the humans won one game in a series of three; the Pentagon signs a $885M AI contract with Booz Allen; MIT builds Cheetah 3, a “blind” robot that has no visual sensors but...


Aug 10, 2018

Continuing in a discussion of recent topics, Andy and Dave discuss research from Johns Hopkins University, which used supervised machine learning to predict toxicity of chemicals (the results of which beat animal tests). DeepMind probes toward general AI by exploring AI’s abstract reasoning capability; in their...


Aug 3, 2018

In breaking news, Andy and Dave discuss the “Future of Life” pledge that various AI tech leaders have signed, promising not to develop lethal autonomous weapons; DARPA announces its Artificial Intelligence Exploration (AIE) program, to provide “unique funding opportunities;” DARPA also announces a Short-Range...