Dec 2, 2022
Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news and research,
including the introduction of a lawsuit against Microsoft, GitHub
and OpenAI for allegedly violating copyright law by reproducing
open-source code using AI. The Texas Attorney General files a
lawsuit against Google alleging unlawful capture and use of
biometric data of Texans without their consent. DARPA flies its
final flight of ALIAS, an autonomous system outfitted on a UH-60
Black Hawk. And Rafael’s DRONE DOME counter-UAS system wins
Pentagon certification. In research, Meta publishes work on Cicero,
an AI agent that combines Large Language Models with strategic
reasoning to achieve human-level performance in Diplomacy. Meta
researchers also publish work on ESMFold, an AI algorithm that
predicts structures from some 600 million proteins, “mostly
unknown.” And Meta also releases (then takes down due to misuse)
Galactica, a 120B parameter language model for scientific papers.
In a similar, but less turbulent vein, Explainpaper provides the
ability to upload a paper, highlight confusing text, and ask
queries to get explanations. CRC Press publishes online for
free Data Science and Machine Learning: Mathematical and
Statistical Methods, a thorough text for upper-class college or
grad-school level. And finally, the video of the week features
Andrew Pickering, Professor Emeritus of sociology and philosophy at
the University of Exeter, UK, with a video on the Cybernetic Brain,
and the book of the same name, published in 2011.
https://www.cna.org/our-media/podcasts/ai-with-ai