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Robot paramedic carries out CPR in ambulance in UK first / Humans + Tech - #83
As humans, it seems we are putting too much trust in AI, and business leaders are disinterested in ensuring that the systems they use are ethical and responsible. When humans administer cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), they get fatigued relatively quickly, affecting the quality of CPR they can deliver. LUCAS 3 is a mechanical system that can administer high-quality CPR consistently without a break. South Central Ambulance Service, an NHS ambulance service in the UK for four counties, is the first to take LUCAS 3 onboard its vehicles [E&T Editorial staff, The Institution of Engineering and Technology]. The system uses wireless Bluetooth connectivity, allowing it to configure the compression rate, depth, and alerts specific to an organisation's resuscitation guidelines.
Have autonomous robots started killing in war? The reality is messier than it appears
It's the sort of thing that can almost pass for background noise these days: over the past week, a number of publications tentatively declared, based on a UN report from the Libyan civil war, that killer robots may have hunted down humans autonomously for the first time. As one headline put it: "The Age of Autonomous Killer Robots May Already Be Here." As you might guess, it's a hard question to answer. The new coverage has sparked a debate among experts that goes to the heart of our problems confronting the rise of autonomous robots in war. Some said the stories were wrongheaded and sensational, while others suggested there was a nugget of truth to the discussion.
Towards robust and domain agnostic reinforcement learning competitions
Guss, William Hebgen, Milani, Stephanie, Topin, Nicholay, Houghton, Brandon, Mohanty, Sharada, Melnik, Andrew, Harter, Augustin, Buschmaas, Benoit, Jaster, Bjarne, Berganski, Christoph, Heitkamp, Dennis, Henning, Marko, Ritter, Helge, Wu, Chengjie, Hao, Xiaotian, Lu, Yiming, Mao, Hangyu, Mao, Yihuan, Wang, Chao, Opanowicz, Michal, Kanervisto, Anssi, Schraner, Yanick, Scheller, Christian, Zhou, Xiren, Liu, Lu, Nishio, Daichi, Tsuneda, Toi, Ramanauskas, Karolis, Juceviciute, Gabija
Reinforcement learning competitions have formed the basis for standard research benchmarks, galvanized advances in the state-of-the-art, and shaped the direction of the field. Despite this, a majority of challenges suffer from the same fundamental problems: participant solutions to the posed challenge are usually domain-specific, biased to maximally exploit compute resources, and not guaranteed to be reproducible. In this paper, we present a new framework of competition design that promotes the development of algorithms that overcome these barriers. We propose four central mechanisms for achieving this end: submission retraining, domain randomization, desemantization through domain obfuscation, and the limitation of competition compute and environment-sample budget. To demonstrate the efficacy of this design, we proposed, organized, and ran the MineRL 2020 Competition on Sample-Efficient Reinforcement Learning. In this work, we describe the organizational outcomes of the competition and show that the resulting participant submissions are reproducible, non-specific to the competition environment, and sample/resource efficient, despite the difficult competition task.
Learning to Guide a Saturation-Based Theorem Prover
Abdelaziz, Ibrahim, Crouse, Maxwell, Makni, Bassem, Austil, Vernon, Cornelio, Cristina, Ikbal, Shajith, Kapanipathi, Pavan, Makondo, Ndivhuwo, Srinivas, Kavitha, Witbrock, Michael, Fokoue, Achille
Traditional automated theorem provers have relied on manually tuned heuristics to guide how they perform proof search. Recently, however, there has been a surge of interest in the design of learning mechanisms that can be integrated into theorem provers to improve their performance automatically. In this work, we introduce TRAIL, a deep learning-based approach to theorem proving that characterizes core elements of saturation-based theorem proving within a neural framework. TRAIL leverages (a) an effective graph neural network for representing logical formulas, (b) a novel neural representation of the state of a saturation-based theorem prover in terms of processed clauses and available actions, and (c) a novel representation of the inference selection process as an attention-based action policy. We show through a systematic analysis that these components allow TRAIL to significantly outperform previous reinforcement learning-based theorem provers on two standard benchmark datasets (up to 36% more theorems proved). In addition, to the best of our knowledge, TRAIL is the first reinforcement learning-based approach to exceed the performance of a state-of-the-art traditional theorem prover on a standard theorem proving benchmark (solving up to 17% more problems).
Semi-Supervised Statistical Inference for High-Dimensional Linear Regression with Blockwise Missing Data
Xue, Fei, Ma, Rong, Li, Hongzhe
Blockwise missing data occurs frequently when we integrate multisource or multimodality data where different sources or modalities contain complementary information. In this paper, we consider a high-dimensional linear regression model with blockwise missing covariates and a partially observed response variable. Under this semi-supervised framework, we propose a computationally efficient estimator for the regression coefficient vector based on carefully constructed unbiased estimating equations and a multiple blockwise imputation procedure, and obtain its rates of convergence. Furthermore, building upon an innovative semi-supervised projected estimating equation technique that intrinsically achieves bias-correction of the initial estimator, we propose nearly unbiased estimators for the individual regression coefficients that are asymptotically normally distributed under mild conditions. By carefully analyzing these debiased estimators, asymptotically valid confidence intervals and statistical tests about each regression coefficient are constructed. Numerical studies and application analysis of the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative data show that the proposed method performs better and benefits more from unsupervised samples than existing methods.
Enzolytics, Inc. (ENZC) Running Hard As Co Partners With Intel to Publish White Paper on AI Artificial Intelligence Targeting Monoclonal Antibodies
Enzolytics, Inc. (ENZC) is making a powerful move up the charts in recent days since a brief dip below the $0.10 mark. ENZC is a major league runner and powerhouse stock; over the past few months ENZC has seen a legendary run to recent highs of 0.958 per share as it completes the historic merger between BioClonetics and Enzolytics; the new biotech is getting noticed as its technology for producing fully human monoclonal antibodies is currently being employed to produce anti-SARS-CoV-2 (CoronaVirus) monoclonal antibodies for treating COVID-19. With each day of progression of the Coronavirus pandemic, the dire need for multiple active therapeutics becomes more evident. ENZC is a pioneer in using monoclonal antibodies for treating COVID-19. ENZC has partnered with Intel to publish a white paper titled, "Optimizing Empathetic A.I. to Cure Deadly Diseases," highlighting Intel's Artificial Intelligence Analytic tools and Enzolytic's innovative approach and groundbreaking contributions to create universal, durable, and broadly effective treatment targeting all virus variants.
How Emotion AI Can Make the World a Better Place - IT News Africa - Up to date technology news, IT news, Digital news, Telecom news, Mobile news, Gadgets news, Analysis and Reports
Most of us take it for granted that we can read another person's emotions through subtleties such as body language, yet this is a real struggle for many others. Researchers at Stanford University modified Google's augmented reality glasses to read emotions in others and notify the wearer. The glasses detect someone's mood through their eye contact, facial expressions and body language, and then tell the wearer what emotions it's picking up. "Emotion AI taps into the individual," explains Zabeth Venter, CEO and co-founder of Averly. "If you think about facial recognition, which is a kind of emotion AI, I can pick up if you like what I'm saying by whether your smile is a smirk or a real genuine smile."
AI helps scour video archives for evidence of human-rights abuses
THANKS ESPECIALLY to ubiquitous camera-phones, today's wars have been filmed more than any in history. Consider the growing archives of Mnemonic, a Berlin charity that preserves video that purports to document war crimes and other violations of human rights. If played nonstop, Mnemonic's collection of video from Syria's decade-long war would run until 2061. Mnemonic also holds seemingly bottomless archives of video from conflicts in Sudan and Yemen. Even greater amounts of potentially relevant additional footage await review online.
A Hybrid APM-CPGSO Approach for Constraint Satisfaction Problem Solving: Application to Remote Sensing
Ayadi, Zouhayra, Boulila, Wadii, Farah, Imed Riadh
Constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) has been actively used for modeling and solving a wide range of complex real-world problems. However, it has been proven that developing efficient methods for solving CSP, especially for large problems, is very difficult and challenging. Existing complete methods for problem-solving are in most cases unsuitable. Therefore, proposing hybrid CSP-based methods for problem-solving has been of increasing interest in the last decades. This paper aims at proposing a novel approach that combines incomplete and complete CSP methods for problem-solving. The proposed approach takes advantage of the group search algorithm (GSO) and the constraint propagation (CP) methods to solve problems related to the remote sensing field. To the best of our knowledge, this paper represents the first study that proposes a hybridization between an improved version of GSO and CP in the resolution of complex constraint-based problems. Experiments have been conducted for the resolution of object recognition problems in satellite images. Results show good performances in terms of convergence and running time of the proposed CSP-based method compared to existing state-of-the-art methods.