Oct 22, 2021
Welcome to Season 5.0 of AI with AI! Andy and Dave discuss the
latest in AI news and research, including. The White House calls
for an AI “bill of rights,” and invites comments for information.
In its 4th year, Nathan Benaich and Ian Hogarth publish their State
of AI Report, 2021. [1:50] OpenAI uses reinforcement learning from
human feedback and recursive task decomposition to improve
algorithms’ abilities to summarize books. [3:14] IEEE Spectrum
publishes a paper that examines the diminishing returns of deep
learning, questioning the long-term viability of the technology.
[5:12] In related news, Nvidia and Microsoft release a 530
billion-parameter style language model, the Megatron-Turing Natural
Language Generation model (MT-NLG). [6:54] DeepMind demonstrates
the use of a GAN in improving high-resolution precipitation
“nowcasting.” [10:05] Researchers from Waterloo, Guelph, and IIT
Madras publish research on deep learning that can identify early
warning signals of tipping points. [11:54] Military robot maker
Ghost Robots creates a robot dog with a rifle, the Special Purpose
Unmanned Rifle, or SPUR. [14:25] And Dr. Larry Lewis joins Dave and
Andy to discuss the latest report from CNA on Leveraging AI to
Mitigate Civilian Harm, which describes the causes of civilian harm
in military operations, identifies how AI could protect civilians
from harm, and identifies ways to lessen the infliction of
suffering, injury, and destruction overall. [16:36]
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