Aug 27, 2021
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 inputs from its users). The National Science Foundation is
providing $220 million in grants to 11 new National AI Research
Institutes (including two fully funded by the NSF). A new DARPA
program seeks to explore how AI systems can share their experiences
with each other, in Shared-Experience Lifelong Learning (ShELL).
The Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
introduces two AI-related bills: the AI Training Act (to establish
a training program to educate the federal acquisition workforce),
and the Deepfake Task Force Act (to task DHS to produce a
coordinated plan on how a “digital content provenance” standard
might assist with decreasing the spread of deepfakes). And the
Inspectors General of the NSA and DoD partner to conduct a joint
evaluation of NSA’s integration of AI into signals intelligence
efforts. In research, DeepMind creates the Perceiver IO
architecture, which works across a wide variety of input and output
spaces, challenging the idea that different kinds of data need
different neural network architectures. DeepMind also publishes
PonderNet, which learns to adapt the amount of computation based on
the complexity of the problem (rather than the size of the inputs).
Research from MIT uses the corpus of US patents to predict the rate
of technological improvements for all technologies. The European
Parliamentary Research Service publishes a report on Innovative
Technologies Shaping the 2040 Battlefield. Quanta Magazine
publishes an interview with Melanie Mitchell, which includes a
deeper discussion on her research in analogies. And Springer-Verlag
makes available for free An Introduction to Ethics in Robotics and
AI (by Christoph Bartneck, Christoph Lütge, Alan Wagner, and Sean
Welsh).
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