Podcasts by AI with AI: Artificial Intelligence with Andy Ilachinski

Doggone from 2021-05-21T13:00

Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news, including a new AI website from the White House at AI.gov, which provides a variety of resources on recent reports, news, key US agencies, and other ...

Superhumans from 2021-05-14T16:14:27

Andy's out this week, but Dave recently had a chance to do a series of interviews on a paper that he wrote, Superhumans, Implications of genetic engineering and human-centered bioengineering. So...

Mnemosyne That Before from 2021-05-07T18:28:31

Andy and Dave discuss the latest AI news and research, including a blog post from the Federal Trade Commission that businesses can and will be held accountable for the fairness of their algorith...

Xen and the Art of Motorcell Maintenance from 2021-04-30T19:51:20

Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news, including the European Commission’s proposal for the regulation of AI. A report in Nature Medicine examines the limitations of the evaluation process...

Donkey Pong from 2021-04-23T18:21:42

Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news, including the National Intelligence Council’s 7th Edition Global Trends 2040 Report, which sprinkles the importance of AI and ML throughout future tr...

Xenomania from 2021-04-16T17:32:58

Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news, including the resignation of Samy Bengio from Google Brain, which fired ethicists Gebru in December and Mitchell in February. The Joint AI Center rel...

Guise of the Machines from 2021-04-09T18:19:03

Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news, including a report that systematically examined 62 studies on COVID-19 ML methods (from a pool o 2200+ studies), and found that none of the models we...

The Earth Dies Dreaming from 2021-04-02T18:35

Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news, including a letter from the National Transportation Safety Board that asks the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to regulate more strict...

Diplomachine from 2021-03-26T16:48:57

Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news, including the release of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps Unmanned Campaign Framework, which describes the desired approach to developing and deploying...

Datalore SemaFor from 2021-03-19T17:22:23

Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news, including an announcement from Facebook AI that it achieved state of the art computer vision performance with its SEER model, by learning from one bi...

Schrödinger’s Slime Mold from 2021-03-12T16:03:29

Andy and Dave discuss the latest AI news, which includes lots of new reports, starting with the release of the final report of the National Security Commission on AI, with over 750 pages that ou...

The Little Ingenuity That Could from 2021-03-05T17:18:11

Andy and Dave discuss the latest AI news including, Mars landing of the Perseverance and its AI-related capabilities, along with its mini-helicopter, Ingenuity. Researchers from Liverpool use ma...

The Low-Res Valley from 2021-02-26T17:29:30

In AI news, researchers from the University of Copenhagen develop a machine learning model that estimates the chances of risk of death due to COVID at various stages of a hospital stay, includin...

D.E.R.Y.L. from 2021-02-19T19:22:53

In news, Andy and Dave discuss a machine learning algorithm from Synergies Intelligent System and Universität Hamburg that can identify people in a moving crowd who are mostly likely asymptomati...

Tempus Fluit from 2021-02-12T17:23:10

In COVID-related AI news, Andy and Dave discuss research from Texas &AM, Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and SNY Binghamton, which demonstrates an automatic system for monitoring the physical distance and ...

Sokoban, and Thanks for All the Fish! from 2021-02-05T18:46:01

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In COVID-related AI news, Andy and Dave discuss a machine learning transformer model from Facebook AI and the NYU S...

In the Year 20XX: 100th Episode Celebration! from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Happy 100th Episode to AI with AI! Andy and Dave celebrate the 100th episode of the AI with AI podcast, starting with a new theme song, inspired by the Mega Man series of games. Andy and Dave ta...

A Mind Forever Voyaging Part 1 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

OpenAI has trained an unsupervised language model that can perform basic reading comprehension, summarize text, answer questions, and generate coherent paragraphs; as Andy and Dave discuss, the ...

Ode to the Joy of pAInting from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Andy and Dave discuss a series of announcements: President Trump signs an Executive Order to prioritize and promote AI; the U.S. Department of Defense releases its 2019 AI Strategy; DARPA announ...

Self-aware Bag of Atomic Camels from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

For research topics, Andy and Dave discuss the task-agnostic self-modeling machine from Columbia University, a robotic arm that learns to build an approximate model of itself and then interact w...

Darcraft Shadows from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In recent announcements, Andy and Dave discuss the National Endowment for Science, Technology, and the Arts (Nesta) launch of a project that is ‘Mapping AI Governance;’ MIT Tech Review’s survey ...

What is AI? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

CNA’s Center for Autonomy and Artificial Intelligence kicks off its first panel for 2019 with a live recording of AI with AI! Andy and Dave take a step back and look at the broader trends of res...

Undecidable: They Called Me Mr. GAN from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Andy and Dave discuss Microsoft’s $1.76B five-year service deal with the Department of Defense, US Coast Guard, and the intelligence communities; the US Defense Innovation Board announces its fi...

From Russia with UAV from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Anna Williams joins Andy and Dave as CNA’s Russia AI and Autonomy expert Sam Bendett returns to discuss the latest news and developments from Russia. Sam describes the progress that the Russian ...

When This Savvy Slime Mold Encountered a Morphogenic Robotic Swarm, You Won't Believe What Happened Next...! from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Andy and Dave discuss Rodney Brooks' predictions on AI from early 2018, and his (on-going) review of those predictions. The European Commission releases a report on AI and Ethics, a framework fo...

Distilled Data: 200 Proofs from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In shorter news items, Andy and Dave discuss the announcement that the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence is partnering with Microsoft Research to connect AI2’s Semantic Scholar academi...

Eleventh Voyage into Morphospace from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The Joint Artificial Intelligence Center is up and running, and Andy and Dave discuss some of the newer revealed details. And the rebranded NeurIPS (originally NIPS), the largest machine learnin...

AI with AI: Montezuma’s Regulation from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

This week, Andy and Dave discuss the US Department of Commerce’s announcement to consider regulating AI as an export; counter to that idea, Amazon makes freely available 45+ hours of training ma...

AI with AI: It Can Only Be Attributable to Human Error from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In the latest news, Andy and Dave discuss OpenAI releasing “Spinning Up in Deep RL,” an online educational resource; Google AI and the New York Times team up to digitize over 5 million photos an...

AI with AI: It’s Neurons All the Way Down from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Andy and Dave discuss research from Hasani and colleagues that uses a natural method for growing a neural network, which they use to demonstrate that a 12-neuron network can be trained to steer ...

How Machines Judge Humans from 2021-01-29T21:00:57

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In COVID-related AI news, Andy and Dave discuss research that uses NLP to predict mutations in a virus that would a...

The Persistence of Memor-E from 2021-01-22T18:09:18

In COVID-related AI news, Andy and Dave discuss an editorial in The Lancet Digital Health, which examines whether preliminary models add clinical value to health-care systems. In regular AI news...

Always Look on the Bright Side of Life from 2021-01-15T19:44:11

In COVID-related news, Andy and Dave discuss a commercial AI model from Biocogniv that predicts COVID-19 infection using only blood tests, with a 95% sensitivity and a 49% specificity. In a stor...

Pork Rewinds from 2021-01-08T17:32:40

Just in time for the holidays, Andy and Dave look back and some of the more memorial AI-related stories from 2020. They begin with the passing of mathematician John Conway, creator of The Game o...

The 4-Bit Blopera from 2021-01-01T14:00

In COVID-related AI news, Andy and Dave discuss the results of the C3.ai COVID-19 challenge. In regular AI news, the US Air Force announces an AI, ARTUm, controlling a military plane for the fir...

Will You, Won’t You Join the DANs? from 2020-12-18T19:52:07

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 ...

Poetein Folding from 2020-12-11T18:28:53

In COVID-related AI news, Andy and Dave discuss a Facebook model that provides county-level forecasts on the spread of COVID-19. IN non-COVID AI news, DeepMind’s AlphaFold 2 won the 14th biennia...

Underbyte from 2020-12-04T20:00:20

In COVID-related AI news, Andy and Dave discuss research from MIT, BIM, and Harvard Medical School, which uses machine learning on Reddit posts to track the pandemic’s impact on mental health. A...

A.I. in the Sky from 2020-11-20T19:02:08

Andy and Dave welcome Arthur Holland Michel to the podcast for a discussion on predictability and understandability in military AI. Arthur is an Associate Researcher at the United Nations Instit...

The Rosetta Drone from 2020-11-13T19:23:15

In COVID-related AI news, MIT researchers have published a machine learning algorithm that can diagnose COVID-19 by the sounds of a person’s forced cough. And the US Veterans Affairs Department ...

Thunderbots from 2020-11-06T16:30:36

Sam Bendett joins Andy and Dave to discuss the latest developments and happenings in Russia's research into artificial intelligence and autonomy capabilities. They discuss Russia's national stra...

Lone Hacker and Child from 2020-10-30T18:05:42

In COVID-related AI news, Andy and Dave discuss the COVID-19 Grand Challenge from C3.ai. In non-COVID AI news, the Department of Defense releases its Data Strategy. The Defense Science Board pub...

PROGRESS Out of the Blue from 2020-10-23T14:49:49

Andy and Dave have a chat with Chad Jenkins, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan, Director of the Laboratory for Perception, RObotics, and Grounded REason...

The Robohattan Project from 2020-10-16T14:47:16

The bipartisan Future of Defense Task Force releases its 2020 report, which includes the suggestion of using the Manhattan Project as a model to develop AI technologies.  Facebook AI releases Dy...

Tell-Tale Heart from 2020-10-09T15:05:55

In COVID-related AI news, Youyang Gu provides world- and county-level COVID-19 predictions using machine learning, along with a rolling examination of accuracy. In regular AI news, a military co...

the social bot network from 2020-10-02T16:46:44

Andy and Dave kick off Season 4.0 of AI with AI with a discussion on social media bots. CNA colleagues Meg McBride and Kasey Stricklin join to discuss the results of their recent research effort...

CONSORTing with the GPT from 2020-09-25T16:49:26

In COVID-related AI news, another concerning report, this time in Nature Medicine, found “serious concerns” with 20,000 studies on AI systems in clinical trials, with many reporting only the bes...

[Abstraction Intensifies] from 2020-09-18T16:42:21

In COVID-related AI news, a report from Cambridge University and University of Manchester examines recent studies on using chest x-rays and CTs scans to detect and diagnose COVID, and finds that...

Some Pigsel from 2020-09-11T17:38:32

In COVID-related AI news, Andy and Dave discuss an effort from Google and Harvard to provide county-level forecasts on COVID-19 for hospitals and first responders. The National Library of Medici...

Rebroadcast: What is AI? from 2020-09-04T17:32:53

CNA’s Center for Autonomy and Artificial Intelligence kicks off its first panel for 2019 with a live recording of AI with AI! Andy and Dave take a step back and look at the broader trends of res...

Highway to the Danger Zone from 2020-08-28T17:39:39

With Season 3 drawing to a close, Andy and Dave decided to focus this discussion entirely on the latest results from DARPA’s Air Combat Evolution (ACE) program. On 20 August, DARPA held a contes...

Elementary, Dear GPT from 2020-08-21T17:16:24

In COVID-related AI news, Andy and Dave discuss survey from Amazon Web Surveys that examines the current status of Internet of Things applications related to COVID-19, include scenarios that mig...

Remember, Remember, the Fakes of November from 2020-08-07T17:02:02

In COVID-related AI news, Andy and Dave discuss an article from Wired that describes how COVID confounded most predictive models (such as finance). And NIST investigates the effect of face masks...

Bots Behaving Badly from 2020-08-07T14:09:31

In COVID-related AI news, Tencent AI Labs publishes a “machine learning” model that can predict the risk of a coronavirus patient developing severe illness. Unsupervised machine learning on data...

Atlas Surveilled from 2020-07-31T14:17:39

In COVID-related AI news, Andy and Dave discuss research that provides a comprehensive survey on applications of AI in fighting COVID-19. The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI and the AI ...

Life Is Like a Box of Matrices from 2020-07-24T14:06:20

Andy and Dave start with COVID-related AI news, and efforts from the Roche Data Science Coalition for UNCOVER (the United Network for COVID-19 Data Exploration and Research), which includes a da...

A Tesseract to Follow from 2020-07-17T16:41:19

In COVID-related AI news, Purdue University has built a website that tracks global response to social distancing, by pulling live footage and images from over 30,000 cameras in 100 countries. Si...

Crime&Publishment from 2020-07-10T17:32:07

It’s a week of huge announcements! But first, in COVID-related AI news, Andy and Dave discuss a review paper in Chaos, Solitons, and Fractals that provides a more international focus on the role...

Dust in the Mind from 2020-07-03T13:00

For COVID-related AI news, Andy and Dave discuss the Stanford Social Innovation Review report on the problem with COVD-19 AI solutions (e.g., data gaps, inconsistency, etc), and how to fix them....

D/Generative from 2020-06-26T14:42:19

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 it...

Oura-boros from 2020-06-19T13:00

In COVID-related AI news, Andy and Dave discuss an announcement from WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute, WVU Medicine, and Oura Health, with the ability to predict COVID-19 related symptoms ...

The GPT Blob from 2020-06-12T15:35:08

In this week’s COVID-related AI news, Andy and Dave discuss “SciFact” from the Allen Institute for AI, which built on neural network VeriSci and can link to supporting or refuting materials for ...

Eye, Pac-Bot from 2020-06-05T17:26:37

In COVID-related AI news, Andy and Dave discuss work from Mount Sinai researchers, who have created an AI system that uses CT scans to diagnose patients with COVID-19. MIT and IBM Watson announc...

Afterburn-in from 2020-05-29T17:41:31

In COVID-19-related AI news, Andy and Dave discuss the Novel Coronavirus Research Compendium, a curated resource from Kate Grabowski, an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins, with the goal of providi...

HurriCOVID Season from 2020-05-22T16:30:52

In COVID-related AI news, Andy and Dave discuss an approach from FiveThirtyEight that uses a mini-model-ensemble to predict possible trajectories for the COVID-19 death toll. MIT Tech Review has...

Finding Lenia from 2020-05-15T15:44:33

Andy and Dave discuss a white paper from the National Security Commission on AI, on Privacy and Ethics Recommendations for Computing Applications Developed to Mitigate COVID-19. The Office of th...

The Brainy Bunch from 2020-05-08T15:27:09

In COVID-related AI news, hospitals across the US are using an AI system called Deterioration Index to provide a snapshot of patients’s risks, even though the software has not yet been validated...

This is Feyn from 2020-05-01T17:37:03

Andy and Dave discuss the initial results from King’s College London’s COVID Symptom Tracker, which found fatigue, loss of taste and smell, and cough to be the most common symptoms. MIT’s CSAIL ...

The COVID Game of Life from 2020-04-24T16:35:29

In COVID-related AI research, Andy and Dave discuss the joint announcement from Apple and Google on creating a voluntary COVID-19 tracing system that makes use of Bluetooth and anonymous crypto ...

Never Give Up from 2020-04-17T16:12:45

In COVID-related AI topics, Andy and Dave discuss an emerging crop (no less than three!) of COVID-19 cough detectors that attempt to diagnose the presence of COVID by various voice measurements....

COVium-Gatherum from 2020-04-10T17:24:28

Jvion has provided an online mapping tool to view regions of the United States and see the areas most vulnerable to issues related to COVID, a “COVID Vulnerability Map.” A video clip from Tecton...

RIDE of the COV-all-cures from 2020-04-03T17:29:34

In COVID-related news, Andy and Dave discuss CloseLoop.ai and its release of an open-source toolkit for predicting people vulnerable to COVID-19. A Korean biotech company, Seegene, announces tha...

We’ve Got You COVID from 2020-03-27T18:09:17

Not surprisingly, COVID-19 has taken over the news section, but still as it all relates to AI and machine learning. Andy and Dave discuss the COVID-19 Open Research Data Set, a free resource of ...

NOAA’s Arcade from 2020-03-20T18:09:09

In news items, Andy and Dave discuss an effort by Boston Children’s Hospital to use machine learning to help track the spread of COVID-19. Meanwhile, a proposal from researchers wants to use mob...

Dyson's Punch-out!! from 2020-03-13T19:38:45

In news, Andy and Dave discuss announcements from two Chinese firms that have developed AI that can identify COVID-19 infections with high accuracy. And the Francis Crick Institute makes DeepMin...

Overthought Plumbing from 2020-03-06T18:34:02

The U.S. Department of Defense Chief Information Officer formally announces that DoD will adopt the Defense Innovation Board’s recommendations on five principles for AI. MIT research have used m...

The Final Sunbrawler from 2020-02-27T21:56:19

Andy and Dave discuss the recent announcement that the U.S. Department of Defense announces that it will adopt the Defense Innovation Board’s detailed principles for using AI. The European Commi...

Where NOMARS Has Gone Before from 2020-02-20T22:24:33

Andy and Dave discuss the President’s 2021 Budget Request, which increases funding for AI but decreases funding to science in general. Google releases Jigsaw, a tool to spot faked and doctored i...

The Unreasonable Perplexity of Fat Tails from 2020-02-14T16:13:17

Andy and Dave discuss an announcement from Exscientia and Sumitomo that they have the first entirely-AI developed drug that is now entering clinical trials. The Director of the Joint Artificial ...

Gremlin Pie! from 2020-02-07T19:13:37

Happy Pi-cast! Andy and Dave discuss some of the stories that have followed the New York Times articles on Clearview AI, to include Twitter telling the company to stop using its photos, and a co...

Private AIs, They’re Watching You from 2020-01-31T18:59:46

In a string of related news items on facial recognition, Andy and Dave discuss San Diego’s reported experiences with facial recognition over the last 7 years (coming to an end on 1 January 2020 ...

Xenophobe from 2020-01-24T18:04:50

The U.S. Government announces the restriction of the sale outside of the U.S. of AI for satellite image analysis. Baidu beats out Google and Microsoft for language “understanding” with its model...

Fakers of the Lost Architecture from 2020-01-17T17:53:50

Andy and Dave discuss a new White House proposal on Principles for AI Regulation. A NIST study examines the effects of race, age, and sex on recognition software and identifies a variety of trou...

Hit the Wall: Do Not Play GO (Part II) from 2020-01-10T20:10:01

In research, Andy and Dave discuss a new idea from Schmidhuber, which introduces Upside-Down reinforcement learning, where no value functions or policy search are necessary, essentially transfor...

Hit the Wall: Do Not Play GO (Part I) from 2020-01-03T17:31:33

Andy and Dave discuss Lee Sodol’s announcement that he is quitting playing Go because AI “cannot be defeated.” Facebook’s Head of AI says the field will soon “hit the wall” (or does he?). A huma...

Attack of the Clouds from 2019-12-20T17:10:25

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy releases its 2016-2019 Progress Report on Advancing AI R&D. SkyNet publishes “AI Coverage Best Practices, According to AI Researchers.” Th...

SinGAN in the Rain from 2019-12-13T17:57:34

Andy and Dave discuss OpenAI’s update to an earlier summary of how computational resources have increased to reach each new AI breakthrough. The National Transportation Safety Board releases its...

20,000 Layers Under the CNN from 2019-12-06T17:55:16

Andy and Dave discuss the full release of the algorithm that originally had to be locked up for the safety of humanity (GPT-2). NATO releases its final reports on the implications of AI for NATO...

Some Superintelligent Assembly Required from 2019-11-29T16:00

In news, the Defense Innovation Board releases AI Principles: Recommendations on the Ethical Use of AI by the Department of Defense. The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s National...

When You Wish Upon an AlphaStar from 2019-11-22T17:31:38

In the news, Andy and Dave discuss the interim report from the National Security Commission on AI. DARPA’s new OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics (OFFSET) program takes a look at swarm behavior. An...

Weirder Things from 2019-11-15T16:17:52

Facebook announces the Deepfake Detection Challenge, a rolling contest to develop technology to detect deepfakes. The US Senate passes the Deepfake Report Act, bipartisan legislation to understa...

The Quantum Menace from 2019-11-08T17:23:21

In news items, Microsoft wins bid for the Pentagon’s $10B Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract. DARPA’s Spectrum Collaboration Challenge (SC2), which aimed to create devices t...

Newton & the 3-Body Problem from 2019-11-01T16:57:07

Andy and Dave discuss the AI-related supplemental report to the President’s Budget Request. The California governor signs a bill banning facial recognition use by the state’s law enforcement age...

JAICs on a Plane with a Cube of the Rubik from 2019-10-25T17:26:15

Welcome to Season 3.0! Andy and Dave discuss the AI in Advancement Advisory Council’s State of AI Advancement report, which takes a look at the impact of AI on roles within advancement. Research...

The (Creepy) Aristobots (part 2) from 2019-10-18T18:16:59

This week, Microsoft Research and University of Montreal show that machines can learn through interactive language by answering questions (question answering with interactive text, or QAit). The...

The (Creepy) Aristobots (Part 1) from 2019-10-11T18:05:20

Andy and Dave discuss the U.S. Air Force’s recently released AI strategy. NATO releases a draft reports on the implications of AI for NATO forces. A report collects 2,602 uses of AI for social g...

From A to Z from 2019-10-03T20:34:01

Two special guests join Andy and Dave for a discussion about research in AI and autonomy. First, Dr. Andrea Gilli is a researcher at the NATO Defense College in Rome, where he works on defense i...

Ghost in the Mirror from 2019-09-27T16:20:41

Andy and Dave discuss research from DeepMind, University College London, and Oxford, that shows that human mental replay spontaneously reorganizes experience, implied by abstract knowledge, and ...

DARPAs Are Forever from 2019-09-20T17:33:10