Jan 29, 2021
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In COVID-related AI news, Andy and Dave discuss research that uses
NLP to predict mutations in a virus that would allow it to avoid
detection by antibodies. In regular AI news, the US Food and Drug
Administration publishes an Action Plan for AI and ML, with more to
follow. The White House launches the National AI Initiative Office,
which will work with the private sector and academia on AI
initiatives. The AI Now institute has launched an effort for “A New
AI Lexicon,” in which it invites contributors to provide
perspectives and narratives for describing new vocabulary that
adequately reflects demands and concerns related to AI technology.
And the Federal Reserve is asking for comments about the use of
AI/ML in banking, as it considers increasing oversight of the
technologies. In research, Michal Kosinski at Stanford University
publishes in Nature Reports how facial recognition technology can
identify a person’s political orientation (to 72% accuracy); Andy
and Dave spend some extra time discussing the challenges and
implications behind such applications of facial recognition
technology. Researchers at Columbia University demonstrate the
ability of an AI observer to “visualize the future plans” of an
actor, solely through visual information. The report of the week
comes from CNAS on AI and International Stability: Risks and
Confidence-Building Measures. The book of the week examines How
Humans Judge Machines. And finally, a YouTube documentary from
Noclip examines how machine learning plays out in Microsoft’s
Flight Simulator.
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