Aug 7, 2020
In COVID-related AI news, Andy and Dave discuss an article from
Wired that describes how COVID confounded most predictive models
(such as finance). And NIST investigates the effect of face masks
on facial recognition software. In regular-AI news, CSET and the
Bipartisan Policy Center release a report on “AI and National
Security,” the first of four “meant to be a roadmap for
Washington’s future efforts on AI.” The Intelligence Community
releases its AI Ethics Principles and AI Ethics Framework.
Researchers from the University of Chicago announce “Fawkes,” a way
to “cloak” images and befuddle facial recognition software. In
research, OpenAI demonstrates that GPT-2, a generator designed for
text, can also generate pixels (instead of words) to fill out 2D
pictures. Researchers at Texas A&M, University of S&T of
China, and MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab create a 3D adversarial logo to
cloak people from facial recognition. And other research explores
how the brain rewires when given an additional thumb. CSET
publishes a Deepfakes: a Grounded Threat Assessment. And MyHeritage
provides a “photo enhancer” that uses machine learning to restore
old photos.
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