Dec 4, 2020
In COVID-related AI news, Andy and Dave discuss research from
MIT, BIM, and Harvard Medical School, which uses machine learning
on Reddit posts to track the pandemic’s impact on mental health.
And the UK and is planning to use AI to spot dangerous side effects
in COVID vaccinations. In non-COVID AI news, Andy and Dave take a
look at how the AI-based poll predictions faired in the 2020 US
election. The White House issues guidance for federal agencies on
AI applications. The University of Copenhagen makes Carbontracker
available, which provides an estimate of the energy consumption for
training deep learning algorithms. DARPA selects 5 teams to head to
the next phase of its Air Combat Evolution competition. And the
34th Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) plans for
virtual proceedings in early December. In research, 40 authors from
Google publish findings on the challenges of deploying an AI system
into the real world, such as unexpectedly poor behavior, which they
attribute to underspecification. The Marine Corps University Press
releases the second volume of Destination Unknown. Andy’s “vintage
magazine of the week” is the April 1985 of Byte, which covered
Artificial Intelligence. And Matt Stone and Trey Parker introduce
Sassy Justice, a parody comedy which warns of the dangers of
deepfakes, by itself being a series of deepfakes (including
President Trump, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, former Vice
President Al Gore, and many others).
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