Jun 19, 2020
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 up to
three days in advance via biometric monitoring. Japan’s M3 is
teaming with Alibaba’s AI Tech to provide CT-scan capability to
hospitals that can identify COVID-related pneumonia. The Pentagon
taps into the virus-relief CARES Act to use AI for virus cure and
vaccine efforts. Rockefeller announces efforts to use GPT-2 to
automatically summarize COVID-19 medical research articles, but the
results aren’t that great. In regular AI news, IBM announces it is
no longer offering general purpose facial recognition or analysis
software, due to concerns about the technology being used to
promote racism. And in a related announcement, Amazon places a
one-year moratorium on allowing law enforcement to use its
Rekognition facial recognition platform. USSOCOM has posted an RFI
for potential contractors to provide its Global Analytics Platform,
a $300-600M contract that would follow its previous eMAPS contract.
And NASA launches its Entrepreneurs Challenge, seeking new ideas
for space exploration. In research, from University of
Pennsylvania, UC Berkeley, Google Brain, University of Toronto,
Carnegie Mellon University, and Facebook AI, comes a different
approach to defining intrinsic motivation for taskless problems,
wherein agents seek out future inputs that are expected to be
novel. The report of the week comes from the Stanley Center for
Peace and Security, with a look at The Militarization of AI.
Researchers at Beijing Academy and Cambridge University come
together to pen a white paper call for “cross-cultural cooperation”
on AI ethics and governance. Efron, Hastie, and Cambridge
University Press provide Computer Age Statistical Inference for
free. And DeepMind and the UCL Centre for AI are producing a Deep
Learning Lecture Series.
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