The U.S. Marine Corps is experimenting with artificial intelligence to improve the way it deploys its forces and spot potential weaknesses years in advance.
CS Digest Section: Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
IBM Watson Will be Used by NIST to Assign CVSS Scores to Vulnerabilities
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is planning to use Artificial Intelligence to assign the CVSS scores to reported vulnerabilities.
https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/77710/security/nist-ai-cvss-scores.html
Researchers Train AI to Spot Alzheimer’s Disease Ahead of Diagnosis
Researchers in California recently published a study in the journal Radiology, and they demonstrated that, once trained, a neural network was able to accurately diagnose Alzheimer's disease in a small number of patients, and it did so based on brain scans taken years before those patients were actually diagnosed by physicians.
https://www.engadget.com/2018/11/06/researchers-train-ai-spot-alzheimers-disease/
The US Military Wants to Teach AI Some Basic Common Sense
Even the best AI programs still make stupid mistakes. So DARPA is launching a competition to remedy the field's most glaring flaw.
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612263/the-us-military-wants-to-teach-ai-some-basic-common-sense/
Accelerating the Exploration of Promising Artificial Intelligence Concepts
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.
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.
