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The term 'ethical AI' is finally starting to mean something
Earlier this year, the independent research organisation of which I am the Director, London-based Ada Lovelace Institute, hosted a panel at the world's largest AI conference, CogX, called The Ethics Panel to End All Ethics Panels. The title referenced both a tongue-in-cheek effort at self-promotion, and a very real need to put to bed the seemingly endless offering of panels, think-pieces, and government reports preoccupied with ruminating on the abstract ethical questions posed by AI and new data-driven technologies. We had grown impatient with conceptual debates and high-level principles. And we were not alone. It supersedes the two waves that came before it: the first wave, defined by principles and dominated by philosophers, and the second wave, led by computer scientists and geared towards technical fixes. Third-wave ethical AI has seen a Dutch Court shut down an algorithmic fraud detection system, students in the UK take to the streets to protest against algorithmically-decided exam results, and US companies voluntarily restrict their sales of facial recognition technology.
How COVID-19 is accelerating the shift away from fossil fuels
Creative destruction "is the essential fact about capitalism," wrote the great Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter in 1942. New technologies and processes continuously revolutionize the economic structure from within, "incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one." Change happens more quickly and creatively during times of economic disruption. Innovations meeting material and cultural needs accelerate. Structures preventing new, more efficient technologies weaken.
Handling of uncertainty in medical data using machine learning and probability theory techniques: A review of 30 years (1991-2020)
Alizadehsani, Roohallah, Roshanzamir, Mohamad, Hussain, Sadiq, Khosravi, Abbas, Koohestani, Afsaneh, Zangooei, Mohammad Hossein, Abdar, Moloud, Beykikhoshk, Adham, Shoeibi, Afshin, Zare, Assef, Panahiazar, Maryam, Nahavandi, Saeid, Srinivasan, Dipti, Atiya, Amir F., Acharya, U. Rajendra
Understanding data and reaching valid conclusions are of paramount importance in the present era of big data. Machine learning and probability theory methods have widespread application for this purpose in different fields. One critically important yet less explored aspect is how data and model uncertainties are captured and analyzed. Proper quantification of uncertainty provides valuable information for optimal decision making. This paper reviewed related studies conducted in the last 30 years (from 1991 to 2020) in handling uncertainties in medical data using probability theory and machine learning techniques. Medical data is more prone to uncertainty due to the presence of noise in the data. So, it is very important to have clean medical data without any noise to get accurate diagnosis. The sources of noise in the medical data need to be known to address this issue. Based on the medical data obtained by the physician, diagnosis of disease, and treatment plan are prescribed. Hence, the uncertainty is growing in healthcare and there is limited knowledge to address these problems. We have little knowledge about the optimal treatment methods as there are many sources of uncertainty in medical science. Our findings indicate that there are few challenges to be addressed in handling the uncertainty in medical raw data and new models. In this work, we have summarized various methods employed to overcome this problem. Nowadays, application of novel deep learning techniques to deal such uncertainties have significantly increased.
AI Defeats Air Force Pilot In Head-To-Head Competition, But The Fight Was On The AI's Terms
Heron Systems fielded an artificial intelligence system that managed Thursday to not only outgun a top current U.S. Air Force fighter pilot and weapons school graduate, but to score a flawless victory against its human opponent, winning all five dogfighting engagements in the culmination of a two-year Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency competition. "It's a giant leap," said Lt. Col. Justin "Glock" Mock, another weapons school graduate who also co-hosted the livestream. The DARPA program, known as the AlphaDogfight Trials, was designed to "demonstrate the feasibility of developing effective, intelligent autonomous agents capable of defeating adversary aircraft in a dogfight." In other words, if this were the movie Top Gun, Maverick and Goose would have just been smoked by an unmanned drone in head-to-head combat, five times in a row. Perhaps most impressive is the timeline under which teams rapidly developed their systems.
Global Artificial Intelligence-based Security Industry 2020-2025 Market Size, Growth, Trends and Forecasts โ Scientect
Global Artificial Intelligence-based Security Market reports provide in-depth analysis of Top Players, Geography, End users, Applications, Competitor analysis, Revenue, Price, Gross Margin, Market Share, Import-Export data, Trends and Forecast. Firstly, the Artificial Intelligence-based Security Market Report provides a basic overview of the industry including definitions, classifications, applications and chain structure. The Artificial Intelligence-based Security market analysis is provided for the international markets including development trends, competitive landscape analysis, and key regions development status. Key Players covered in this report are Nvidia Corporation, Intel Corporation, Xilinx Inc, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, Micron Technology, IBM Corporation, Cylance Inc, Threatmetrix, Securonix, Inc, Amazon, Sift Science, Acalvio Technologies, Skycure Inc,. Our industry professionals are working reluctantly to understand, assemble and timely deliver assessment on impact of COVID-19 disaster on many corporations and their clients to help them in taking excellent business decisions.
What does your voice say about you?
Your accent can nod to where you come from; the pace of your speech can reveal your emotional state; your voiceprint can be used to identify you. Linguists, companies and governments are now parsing our voices for these details, using them as biometric tools to uncover more and more information about us. While a lot of this information is used to make our lives easier, it has also been used to controversial and worrying effect. And the next frontier of voice technology means we may not be able to trust what we hear -- even if we appear to have said it ourselves. Much like a fingerprint, we all have a unique voiceprint.
Quantum Language Model with Entanglement Embedding for Question Answering
Chen, Yiwei, Pan, Yu, Dong, Daoyi
Quantum Language Models (QLMs) in which words are modelled as quantum superposition of sememes have demonstrated a high level of model transparency and good post-hoc interpretability. Nevertheless, in the current literature word sequences are basically modelled as a classical mixture of word states, which cannot fully exploit the potential of a quantum probabilistic description. A full quantum model is yet to be developed to explicitly capture the non-classical correlations within the word sequences. We propose a neural network model with a novel Entanglement Embedding (EE) module, whose function is to transform the word sequences into entangled pure states of many-body quantum systems. Strong quantum entanglement, which is the central concept of quantum information and an indication of parallelized correlations among the words, is observed within the word sequences. Numerical experiments show that the proposed QLM with EE (QLM-EE) achieves superior performance compared with the classical deep neural network models and other QLMs on Question Answering (QA) datasets. In addition, the post-hoc interpretability of the model can be improved by quantizing the degree of entanglement among the words.
Fast Approximate Multi-output Gaussian Processes
Joukov, Vladimir, Kuliฤ, Dana
Gaussian processes regression models are an appealing machine learning method as they learn expressive non-linear models from exemplar data with minimal parameter tuning and estimate both the mean and covariance of unseen points. However, exponential computational complexity growth with the number of training samples has been a long standing challenge. During training, one has to compute and invert an $N \times N$ kernel matrix at every iteration. Regression requires computation of an $m \times N$ kernel where $N$ and $m$ are the number of training and test points respectively. In this work we show how approximating the covariance kernel using eigenvalues and functions leads to an approximate Gaussian process with significant reduction in training and regression complexity. Training with the proposed approach requires computing only a $N \times n$ eigenfunction matrix and a $n \times n$ inverse where $n$ is a selected number of eigenvalues. Furthermore, regression now only requires an $m \times n$ matrix. Finally, in a special case the hyperparameter optimization is completely independent form the number of training samples. The proposed method can regress over multiple outputs, estimate the derivative of the regressor of any order, and learn the correlations between them. The computational complexity reduction, regression capabilities, and multioutput correlation learning are demonstrated in simulation examples.
Personalized 3D printed models in optimizing cardiac computed tomography imaging protocols
Patient-specific or personalised 3D printed models created from cardiac imaging data can be applied to research areas beyond the current domains of 3D printing in cardiovascular disease, which mainly focuses on pre-surgical planning and simulation, medical education and training, as well as doctor-patient communication. These areas represent the most commonly used applications of 3D printed models, in particular, use of 3D printing models on congenital heart disease is a very promising field with sufficient evidence provided by randomised controlled trials. Further, 3D printed heart models are shown to play an important role in guiding patient's surgical planning and treatment as reported by single and multi-center studies. In addition to these reported applications, the realistic physical models serve as a valuable tool in studying appropriate cardiac CT protocols for the purpose of optimizing CT scanning techniques. Zhonghua Sun, a professor and medical imaging researcher from Curtin University, Australia has been in search of new ways to acquire accurate and efficient medical images.
General health orientation based psychological motivations for masters athletes, a consideration of clustering utilizing t-distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding
Dr. Joe Walsh is with Sport Science Institute www.sportscienceinstitute.com Ian Timothy Heazlewood is Associate Professor and Theme Leader Exercise and Sport Science in The School of Psychological and Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Engineering, Health, Science and the Environment, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. Dr. Mike Climstein (FASMF, FACSM, FAAESS) is with Clinical Exercise Physiology, Southern Cross University, School of Health and Human Sciences, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia; Physical Activity, Lifestyle, Ageing and Wellbeing Faculty Research Group, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 2006. An exploration of clustering of general health orientation psychological motivations for participation in sport was conducted using t-distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding (t-SNE). The aim of this research was to assess the suitability of applying t-SNE to creating two-dimensional scatter plots to visualise the relationship between different general health orientation motivators. The data source used for this investigation was survey data gathered on World Masters Games competitors using the Motivations of Marathoners Scales (MOMS). Application of t-SNE plots could assist in visually mapping general health orientation psychological constructs and gaining greater understanding of the underlying patterns in the MOMS tool.