Dec 16, 2022
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
requirements for the Department of Defense. DoD has also awarded
its cloud-computing contracts, not to one company, but four –
Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle. At the end of November, the
San Francisco Board voted to allow the police force to use robots
to administer deadly force, however, after a nearly immediate
response from a “No Killer Robots” campaign, in early December the
board passed a revised version of the policy that prohibits police
from using robots to kill people. Israeli company Elbit unveils its
LANIUS drone, a “drone-based loitering munition” that can carry
lethal or non-lethal payloads, and appears to have many functions
similar to the ‘slaughter bots,’ except for autonomous targeting.
Neuralink shows the latest updates on its research for putting a
brain chip interface into humans, with demonstrations of a monkey
manipulating a mouse cursor with its thoughts; the company also
faces a federal investigation into possible animal-welfare
violations. DeepMind publishes AlphaCode in Science, a story that
we covered back in February. DeepMind also introduces DeepNash, an
autonomous agent that can play Stratego. OpenAI unleashes ChatGPT,
a spin-off of GPT-3 optimized for answering questions through
back-and-forth dialogue. Meanwhile, Stack Overflow, a website for
programmers, temporarily banned users from sharing responses
generated by ChatGPT, because the output of the algorithm might
look good, but it has “a high rate of being incorrect.” Researchers
at the Weizmann Institute of Science demonstrate that, with a
simple neural network, it is possible to reconstruct a “large
portion” of the actual training samples. NOMIC provides an
interactive map to explore over 6M images from Stable
Diffusion. Steve Coulson creates “AI-assisted comics” using
Midjourney. Stay tuned for AI Debate 3 on 23 December 2022. And the
video of the week from Ricard Sole at the Santa Fe Institute
explores mapping the cognition space of liquid and solid
brains.
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