DARPA today announced its Artificial Intelligence Exploration (AIE) program, a key component of the agency's broader artificial intelligence (AI) investment strategy aimed at ensuring the United States maintains an advantage in this critical and rapidly accelerating technology area.
CS Digest Section: Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
General: Project Maven Is Just the Beginning of the Military’s Use of AI
A top Air Force general said the military needs to expand its use of artificial intelligence - like that being used in the controversial Project Maven effort - if it wants to stay ahead of peer competitors and deter war.
Scientists Invented AI Made From DNA
Last Wednesday, researchers at Caltech announced that they created an artificial neural network from synthetic DNA that is able to recognize numbers coded in molecules. It's a novel implementation of a classic machine learning test that demonstrates how the very building blocks of life can be harnessed as a computer.
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/594mvz/ai-made-from-human-dna
Capture the Flag: the emergence of complex cooperative agents
Mastering the strategy, tactical understanding, and team play involved in multiplayer video games represents a critical challenge for AI research. Now, through new developments in reinforcement learning, our agents have achieved human-level performance in Quake III Arena Capture the Flag, a complex multi-agent environment and one of the canonical 3D
New IBM Robot Holds its Own in a Debate with a Human
The human brain may be the ultimate super computer, but artificial intelligence is catching up so fast that it can now hold a substantive debate with a human.
https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/tech/new-ibm-robot-holds-its-own-debate-human-ncna884536
This Japanese AI Security Camera Shows the Future of Surveillance Will be Automated
The world of automated surveillance is booming, with new machine learning techniques giving CCTV cameras the ability to spot troubling behavior without human supervision. And sooner or later, this tech will be coming to a store near you - as illustrated by a new AI security cam built by Japanese telecom giant NTT East and startup Earth Eyes Corp.
A Bot Backed by Elon Musk Has Made an AI Breakthrough in Video Game World
Artificial-intelligence research group OpenAI said it created software capable of beating teams of five skilled human players in the video game Dota 2, a milestone in computer science.
Google: Our AI Won’t be a Weapon
A new manifesto by CEO Sundar Pichai explains what they'll allow their AI to do.
https://www.engadget.com/2018/06/07/google-our-ai-wont-be-a-weapon/
MIT Fed an AI Data From Reddit, and Now it Only Thinks About Murder
This week, researchers at MIT unveiled their latest creation: Norman, a disturbed AI.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/7/17437454/mit-ai-psychopathic-reddit-data-algorithmic-bias
IBM’s World-Class Summit Supercomputer Gooses Speed With AI Abilities
Making a world-class supercomputer with thousands of processors and the power appetite of a small town isn't as easy as it used to be.
https://www.cnet.com/news/ibms-world-class-summit-supercomputer-gooses-speed-with-ai-abilities/
