Jun 26, 2020
In COVID-related news, Nature publishes a review of COVID-19 AI
tools, emphasizing that most tools are still in development and
largely unproven. Inserm selects Expert System’s AI support for its
COVID-19 research and its group of over 10,000 researchers.
Researchers provide in open-source a large annotated dataset of CT
and X-ray images from COVID-19 patients, called the BIMCV
COVID-19+. In regular AI news, Microsoft announces that it will not
sell its facial recognition technology to police departments in the
US until a national law is in place to help govern its use. On that
note, a new federal bill in development, the Justice in Policing
Act, contains policy guidelines on the use and limitations of
facial recognition technology for police. OpenAI releases a
commercial product API for accessing its AI models, to include the
175B parameter GPT-3, although other researchers are expressing
concern over the lack of accountability on bias. Facebook announces
the winner of its Deepfake Challenge, where the winning model
achieved at 65% accuracy on a set of 10,000 previously unseen
clips. And Boston Dynamics makes its robot dog, Spot, available for
sale at $74,500 plus tax. In research, a team at Duke University
introduces PULSE, which sharpens blurry images, in essence by
exploring the space of plausible high-res images that could result
in the blurry image. The report of the week comes from Perry World
House, who published the results of a Policy Roundtable on AI
hosted last fall. The Stockholm International Peace Research
Institute and the International Committee of the Red Cross offer
their take on Limits on Autonomy in Weapon Systems, by identifying
the practical elements of human control. The review of the week
from University of Waterloo provides an overview of text detection
and recognition in the wild. MacroPolo provides a snapshot of
Global AI Talent, using participants from the 2019 NeurIPS.
Spring-Verlag provides yet another free text, from Eiben and Smith,
on an Introduction to Evolutionary Computing. And NavyCon 2020
provides brief snapshots on “navies, science fiction, and great
power competition” from a host of participants.
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