Dec 18, 2020
In COVID-related AI news, Andy and Dave discuss a report from
MIT that identifies gaps in coverage from COVID vaccines, and uses
machine learning to identify peptide additions to increase their
efficacy. The GAO and the National Academy of Medicine release a
combined report on AI in health care. Nature provides access to a
large collection of open datasets related to COVID research and
information. In non-COVID-related AI news, President Trump signs an
executive order on the governmental development of AI, which
includes a requirement for OMB to produce a roadmap by the end of
May 2021. The FY21 National Defense Authorization Act boots the
JAIC’s role and performance, to include a funding stream for
acquisition authority. The ML-Reproducibility Challenge 2020 kicks
off, with submissions due by 29 January 2021. Researchers in China
announce the creation of a photonic quantum computer that achieves
quantum supremacy in conducting Gaussian boson sampling. The Bjarke
Ingles Group unveils its plans to create an “AI city,” a tech-hub
in Chongqing, China. And the Navy’s uncrewed Overlord test vessel
completes a 4700 nautical mile journey with minimal human
assistance, to include passage through the Panama Canal.
Researchers at Georgia State University demonstrate an approach to
continual learning with deep artificial neurons (DANs), a neural
network, where the neurons are themselves small deep neural
networks. And researchers at Tencent AI Lab demonstrate an almost
society-of-agents approach to creating an a deep reinforcement
algorithm that can play multi-player online battle arena (MOBA)
games.
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