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Breaking AIs to make them better
Today's artificial intelligence systems used for image recognition are incredibly powerful with massive potential for commercial applications. Nonetheless, current artificial neural networks--the deep learning algorithms that power image recognition--suffer one massive shortcoming: they are easily broken by images that are even slightly modified. This lack of "robustness" is a significant hurdle for researchers hoping to build better AIs. However, exactly why this phenomenon occurs, and the underlying mechanisms behind it, remain largely unknown. Aiming to one day overcome these flaws, researchers at Kyushu University's Faculty of Information Science and Electrical Engineering have published in PLOS ONE a method called "Raw Zero-Shot" that assesses how neural networks handle elements unknown to them.
The Present and Future of Bots in Software Engineering
Shihab, Emad, Wagner, Stefan, Gerosa, Marco A., Wessel, Mairieli, Cabot, Jordi
We often see users and run automated tasks in response, working bots working on software repositories, e.g., to as an interface between users and services. Bots can support technical and social projects, which typically face sustainability activities in software engineering, including issues. The adoption of bots may help free communication and decision-making. In open-source (or inner-source) is no exception [1], [2]. Given the essential projects, bots can leverage the public availability complexity of software projects and the large of software assets, including source code, discussions, community of people around them (stakeholders, issues and comments, to target more designers, developers and, let's not forget, significant contributions.
Empirical Evaluation of Project Scheduling Algorithms for Maximization of the Net Present Value
Lacerda, Isac M., Schmitz, Eber A., Szwarcfiter, Jayme L., de Freitas, Rosiane
This paper presents an empirical performance analysis of three project scheduling algorithms dealing with maximizing projects' net present value with unrestricted resources. The selected algorithms, being the most recently cited in the literature, are: Recursive Search (RS), Steepest Ascent Approach (SAA) and Hybrid Search (HS). The main motivation for this research is the lack of knowledge about the computational complexities of the RS, SAA, and HS algorithms, since all studies to date show some gaps in the analysis. Furthermore, the empirical analysis performed to date does not consider the fact that one algorithm (HS) uses a dual search strategy, which markedly improved the algorithm's performance, while the others don't. In order to obtain a fair performance comparison, we implemented the dual search strategy into the other two algorithms (RS and SAA), and the new algorithms were called Recursive Search Forward-Backward (RSFB) and Steepest Ascent Approach Forward-Backward (SAAFB). The algorithms RSFB, SAAFB, and HS were submitted to a factorial experiment with three different project network sampling characteristics. The results were analyzed using the Generalized Linear Models (GLM) statistical modeling technique that showed: a) the general computational costs of RSFB, SAAFB, and HS; b) the costs of restarting the search in the spanning tree as part of the total cost of the algorithms; c) and statistically significant differences between the distributions of the algorithms' results.
Using artificial intelligence to discover new antivirals against COVID-19 and future pandemics
Research into drugs to treat mosquito-borne flaviviruses such as Zika and dengue as well as COVID-19will benefit from a major funding boost, says a group of international scientists using artificial intelligence to discover new oral antivirals. A research consortium led by the non-profit COVID Moonshot has been awarded more than US$68 million from the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) to discover and develop globally accessible and affordable novel oral antivirals to combat COVID-19 and future pandemics. The development comes as monkeypox outbreaks have been declared around the world, raising concerns about the rapid spread of such viruses. Monkeypox is a viral disease that the World Health Organization says has emerged in at least 23 countries where the disease is not regularly found since 13 May. The open-science COVID Moonshot was established in 2020 with the objective of developing a safe, globally accessible and affordable antiviral pill for COVID-19.
Using Hashtags to Analyze Purpose and Technology Application of Open-Source Project Related to COVID-19
COVID-19 has had a profound impact on the lives of all human beings. Emerging technologies have made significant contributions to the fight against the pandemic. An extensive review of the application of technology will help facilitate future research and technology development to provide better solutions for future pandemics. In contrast to the extensive surveys of academic communities that have already been conducted, this study explores the IT community of practice. Using GitHub as the study target, we analyzed the main functionalities of the projects submitted during the pandemic. This study examines trends in projects with different functionalities and the relationship between functionalities and technologies. The study results show an imbalance in the number of projects with varying functionalities in the GitHub community, i.e., applications account for more than half of the projects. In contrast, other data analysis and AI projects account for a smaller share. This differs significantly from the survey of the academic community, where the findings focus more on cutting-edge technologies while projects in the community of practice use more mature technologies. The spontaneous behavior of developers may lack organization and make it challenging to target needs.
World Cup in Qatar to use semi-automated offside system
FIFA has confirmed that a semi-automated offside system will be used at this year's football World Cup in Qatar. The new technology utilises a limb-tracking camera system to track player movements and a sensor in the ball. It then quickly shows 3D images on stadium screens at the tournament to help fans understand the referee's call. It is the third World Cup in a dispute that will see FIFA introduce new technology to help referees. The optical tracking system was trialled at the FIFA Club World Cup in Abu Dhabi earlier this year and had also been tested at the Arab Cup in Qatar last December.
How neurons really work is being elucidated
A neuron is a thing of beauty. Ever since Santiago Ramón y Cajal stained them with silver nitrate to make them visible under the microscopes of the 1880s (see drawing above), their ramifications have fired the scientific imagination. Ramón y Cajal called them the butterflies of the soul. Your browser does not support the audio element. Those ramifications--dendrites by the dozen to collect incoming signals, called action potentials, from other neurons, and a single axon to pass on the summed wisdom of those signals in the form of another action potential, turn neurons into parts of far bigger structures known as neural networks.
Daily AI Roundup: Biggest Machine Learning, Robotic And Automation Updates
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