Mar 5, 2021
Andy and Dave discuss the latest AI news including, Mars landing
of the Perseverance and its AI-related capabilities, along with its
mini-helicopter, Ingenuity. Researchers from Liverpool use machine
learning to predict which mammalian hosts can generate novel
coronaviruses. Researchers from Estonia and France create
artificial human genomes using generative neural networks. A
coalition of over 40 organizations have written a letter to ask
that President Biden ban the federal use of and funding of facial
recognition technology. The law firm Gibson Dunn releases a 2020
Annual Review of AI and Automated Systems, which also contains a
great summary of policy and regulatory developments in the last
year. In research, scientists at the Commonwealth Scientific and
Industrial Research Organisation in Australia use AI to manipulate
human behavior, steering participants toward particular actions.
Researchers in the Netherlands demonstrate that predictive coding
in recurrent neural networks naturally arises as a consequence of
minimizing energy consumption. Research in Nature Communications
demonstrates a multisensory neural networks that integrates
information from all five human senses. The report of the week
comes from CSET author Matthew Mittlelsteadt, which describes AI
Verification: Mechanisms to Ensure AI Arms Control Compliance. The
first book of the week comes from Moritz Hardt, on Patterns,
Predictions, and Actions: A story about machine learning. And the
fun site of the week takes a look at the works of painter Wassily
Kandinsky, who was also a synesthete (experiencing the fusion of
the senses), and offers insights into what he might have heard from
looking at his paintings. The second book of the week provides some
great information on Synaesthesia – Opinions and Perspectives.
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