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Israel unveils artificial intelligence strategy for armed forces
Israel has adopted a new strategy for the incorporation and use of artificial intelligence across the branches of its armed forces, according to a senior Israel Defense Forces official. The new strategy was unveiled amid the AI Week 2022 three-day event at The Blavatnik Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Center and Tel Aviv Center for AI and Data Science at Tel Aviv University. The event included a session on the IDF's new information and AI strategy. A senior Israel Defense Forces official, whose name could not be used due to the sensitivity of their position, noted that the IDF is undergoing a digital transformation in dealing with AI in all its branches and the commands. This will be the first time the IDF has a multi-branch and multi-command plan for use of AI.
Can an AI be properly considered an inventor? – TechCrunch
That is, at least in the U.S., essentially still the case. However, there's been a significant volume of water that's passed under the policy and lawmaking bridge since then, so I wanted to revisit the question. First, let's back up a little. I have to admit that my reasoning in 2018 was narrow rather than broad. The work – and let's note that it doesn't have to be considered aesthetically "good" or have required a lot of skill – must simply be original (meaning that it was independently created and has at least a "modicum" of creativity) and an expression of some sort.
A Review of Deep Learning-based Approaches for Deepfake Content Detection
Passos, Leandro A., Jodas, Danilo, da Costa, Kelton A. P., Júnior, Luis A. Souza, Colombo, Danilo, Papa, João Paulo
The fast-spreading information over the internet is essential to support the rapid supply of numerous public utility services and entertainment to users. Social networks and online media paved the way for modern, timely-communication-fashion and convenient access to all types of information. However, it also provides new chances for ill use of the massive amount of available data, such as spreading fake content to manipulate public opinion. Detection of counterfeit content has raised attention in the last few years for the advances in deepfake generation. The rapid growth of machine learning techniques, particularly deep learning, can predict fake content in several application domains, including fake image and video manipulation. This paper presents a comprehensive review of recent studies for deepfake content detection using deep learning-based approaches. We aim to broaden the state-of-the-art research by systematically reviewing the different categories of fake content detection. Furthermore, we report the advantages and drawbacks of the examined works and future directions towards the issues and shortcomings still unsolved on deepfake detection.
RoPGen: Towards Robust Code Authorship Attribution via Automatic Coding Style Transformation
Li, Zhen, Guenevere, null, Chen, null, Chen, Chen, Zou, Yayi, Xu, Shouhuai
Source code authorship attribution is an important problem often encountered in applications such as software forensics, bug fixing, and software quality analysis. Recent studies show that current source code authorship attribution methods can be compromised by attackers exploiting adversarial examples and coding style manipulation. This calls for robust solutions to the problem of code authorship attribution. In this paper, we initiate the study on making Deep Learning (DL)-based code authorship attribution robust. We propose an innovative framework called Robust coding style Patterns Generation (RoPGen), which essentially learns authors' unique coding style patterns that are hard for attackers to manipulate or imitate. The key idea is to combine data augmentation and gradient augmentation at the adversarial training phase. This effectively increases the diversity of training examples, generates meaningful perturbations to gradients of deep neural networks, and learns diversified representations of coding styles. We evaluate the effectiveness of RoPGen using four datasets of programs written in C, C++, and Java. Experimental results show that RoPGen can significantly improve the robustness of DL-based code authorship attribution, by respectively reducing 22.8% and 41.0% of the success rate of targeted and untargeted attacks on average.
Can critical thinking compete with artificial intelligence?
Salah Khalil is the founder and chief executive officer of Macat International, a company that measures and develops critical thinking skills in higher education and in the corporate sector. Khalil is former strategy consultant at the Westminster Foundation for Democracy in London. He also serves on the advisory board of the Business School at the American University in Cairo. Khalil says many skills that we're using in the current economy might be surpassed by machines in the future. These skills will decay with time, and critical thinking is one of those skills that will not decay with time.
My iPhone knows my inside leg measurement
Tailoring is fancy, sufficiently fancy that you may go your entire life and never once experience the art. It's expensive, having garments custom-made to suit your body shape, even if there are a legion of benefits in doing so. Mass-produced clothes, meanwhile, are never going to do the job if you've got a body that diverges from what's expected or treated as "normal." There are two real problems: Measurement, and manufacturing, issues that the fashion industry is wrestling with right now. A Taiwanese company, TG3D, has at least discovered a way to solve the first part of the equation with little more than an iPhone.
Semi-supervised New Event Type Induction and Description via Contrastive Loss-Enforced Batch Attention
Existing work (Ji and Grishman, we consider the attention weight between 2008; McClosky et al., 2011; Li et al., 2013; two event mentions as a learned similarity, and we Chen et al., 2015; Du and Cardie, 2020; Li et al., ensure that the attention mechanism learns to align 2021a) traditionally uses a predefined list of event similar events using a semi-supervised contrastive types and their respective annotations to learn an loss. By doing this, we are able to leverage the event extraction model. However, these annotations large variety of semantic information in pretrained are both expensive and time-consuming to language models for clustering unseen types by using create. This problem is amplified when considering a trained attention head. Unlike (Huang and specialization-intensive domains such as scientific Ji, 2020), we are able to separate clustering from literature, which requires years of specialized experience learning, allowing specific task-suited clustering to understand even a specific niche. For algorithms to be selected.
ClidSum: A Benchmark Dataset for Cross-Lingual Dialogue Summarization
Wang, Jiaan, Meng, Fandong, Lu, Ziyao, Zheng, Duo, Li, Zhixu, Qu, Jianfeng, Zhou, Jie
We present ClidSum, a benchmark dataset for building cross-lingual summarization systems on dialogue documents. It consists of 67k+ dialogue documents from two subsets (i.e., SAMSum and MediaSum) and 112k+ annotated summaries in different target languages. Based on the proposed ClidSum, we introduce two benchmark settings for supervised and semi-supervised scenarios, respectively. We then build various baseline systems in different paradigms (pipeline and end-to-end) and conduct extensive experiments on ClidSum to provide deeper analyses. Furthermore, we propose mDialBART which extends mBART-50 (a multi-lingual BART) via further pre-training. The multiple objectives used in the further pre-training stage help the pre-trained model capture the structural characteristics as well as important content in dialogues and the transformation from source to the target language. Experimental results show the superiority of mDialBART, as an end-to-end model, outperforms strong pipeline models on ClidSum. Finally, we discuss specific challenges that current approaches faced with this task and give multiple promising directions for future research. We have released the dataset and code at https://github.com/krystalan/ClidSum.
On the preferred extensions of argumentation frameworks: bijections with naive extensions
Elaroussi, Mohammed, Nourine, Lhouari, Radjef, Mohammed Said, Vilmin, Simon
This paper deals with the problem of finding the preferred extensions of an argumentation framework by means of a bijection with the naive extensions of another framework. First we consider the case where an argumentation framework is naive-realizable: its naive and preferred extensions are equal. Recognizing naive-realizable argumentation frameworks is hard, but we show that it is tractable for frameworks with bounded in-degree. Next, we give a bijection between the preferred extensions of an argumentation framework being admissible-closed (the intersection of two admissible sets is admissible) and the naive extensions of another framework on the same set of arguments. On the other hand, we prove that identifying admissible-closed argumentation frameworks is coNP-complete. At last, we introduce the notion of irreducible self-defending sets as those that are not the union of others. It turns out there exists a bijection between the preferred extensions of an argumentation framework and the naive extensions of a framework on its irreducible self-defending sets. Consequently, the preferred extensions of argumentation frameworks with some lattice properties can be listed with polynomial delay and polynomial space.
Improving short-term bike sharing demand forecast through an irregular convolutional neural network
Li, Xinyu, Xu, Yang, Zhang, Xiaohu, Shi, Wenzhong, Yue, Yang, Li, Qingquan
As an important task for the management of bike sharing systems, accurate forecast of travel demand could facilitate dispatch and relocation of bicycles to improve user satisfaction. In recent years, many deep learning algorithms have been introduced to improve bicycle usage forecast. A typical practice is to integrate convolutional (CNN) and recurrent neural network (RNN) to capture spatial-temporal dependency in historical travel demand. For typical CNN, the convolution operation is conducted through a kernel that moves across a "matrix-format" city to extract features over spatially adjacent urban areas. This practice assumes that areas close to each other could provide useful information that improves prediction accuracy. However, bicycle usage in neighboring areas might not always be similar, given spatial variations in built environment characteristics and travel behavior that affect cycling activities. Yet, areas that are far apart can be relatively more similar in temporal usage patterns. To utilize the hidden linkage among these distant urban areas, the study proposes an irregular convolutional Long-Short Term Memory model (IrConv+LSTM) to improve short-term bike sharing demand forecast. The model modifies traditional CNN with irregular convolutional architecture to extract dependency among "semantic neighbors". The proposed model is evaluated with a set of benchmark models in five study sites, which include one dockless bike sharing system in Singapore, and four station-based systems in Chicago, Washington, D.C., New York, and London. We find that IrConv+LSTM outperforms other benchmark models in the five cities. The model also achieves superior performance in areas with varying levels of bicycle usage and during peak periods. The findings suggest that "thinking beyond spatial neighbors" can further improve short-term travel demand prediction of urban bike sharing systems.