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Thundernna: a white box adversarial attack

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

The existing work shows that the neural network trained by naive gradient-based optimization method is prone to adversarial attacks, adds small malicious on the ordinary input is enough to make the neural network wrong. At the same time, the attack against a neural network is the key to improving its robustness. The training against adversarial examples can make neural networks resist some kinds of adversarial attacks. At the same time, the adversarial attack against a neural network can also reveal some characteristics of the neural network, a complex high-dimensional non-linear function, as discussed in previous work. In This project, we develop a first-order method to attack the neural network. Compare with other first-order attacks, our method has a much higher success rate. Furthermore, it is much faster than second-order attacks and multi-steps first-order attacks.


OpenAI bans developer of bot for presidential hopeful Dean Phillips

Washington Post - Technology News

Dean.Bot was the brainchild of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs Matt Krisiloff and Jed Somers, who had started a super PAC supporting Phillips (Minn.) The PAC had received 1 million from hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, the billionaire activist who led the charge to oust Harvard University president Claudine Gay.


Iran blames Israel for strike that killed four senior military officials in Syria as Mid East conflict spirals

FOX News

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has blamed Israel for a strike in Syria that killed four senior members of the group. "The Revolutionary Guards' Syria intel chief, his deputy and two other Guards members were martyred in the attack on Syria by Israel," Iran's Mehr news agency announced, citing an unnamed source. Nour News, another Iranian news agency that allegedly has close ties to the country's intelligence networks, identified Gen. Sadegh Omidzadeh, intelligence deputy of the IRGC's Quds Force in Syria, and his deputy among the dead. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that another Iranian and a Syrian -- unidentified at this time -- also died in the strike. The strike destroyed a building in the western Damascus neighborhood of Mazzeh that the IRGC officials had allegedly used as a base of operations.


Indian Farm Workers Are Being Replaced by Drones. They Fear a Much Darker Future.

Slate

He isn't satisfied: This is the only work he's gotten in the past two weeks. Sharma is from Bihar, one of India's poorest states. But he's earned a decent living as a migrant agricultural laborer since moving to the northern state of Haryana 12 years ago. Haryana's agricultural sector relies on hundreds of thousands of Bihari laborers, and in the small village of Ghuskani, where Sharma lives, more than 87 migrant laborers work in fields, clean cattle sheds, and perform factory jobs. Sharma has sprayed insecticides on practically every farm in the village over the past 12 years.


Experts highlight American role in Ukraine's unbelievable AI military development

FOX News

Ukraine's artificial intelligence (AI) development continues at a frightening pace beyond that of even tech giants in the U.S. and China as the war with Russia lurches toward a third year, but experts highlighted America's critical role in helping that rapid advance. "What I think we underestimate in the U.S. military is the actual cost of the infrastructure required to do this in combat," Benjamin Jensen, senior fellow of Future War, Gaming and Strategy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told Fox News Digital. "Ukraine is doing it because they're building it from the bottom up, and it's antifragile … it's small, it's scalable, it works, and they know what to do it," Jensen said. "We're trying to do it very Pentagonese from the top down, which means we're going to spend tens of billions of dollars for a couple of high-profile failures versus spending, you know, one million dollars on nine failures and one success." The U.S. discovered Ukraine's unbelievable advancement with AI just months into the war.


Weakly-Supervised Semantic Segmentation of Circular-Scan, Synthetic-Aperture-Sonar Imagery

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

We propose a weakly-supervised framework for the semantic segmentation of circular-scan synthetic-aperture-sonar (CSAS) imagery. The first part of our framework is trained in a supervised manner, on image-level labels, to uncover a set of semi-sparse, spatially-discriminative regions in each image. The classification uncertainty of each region is then evaluated. Those areas with the lowest uncertainties are then chosen to be weakly labeled segmentation seeds, at the pixel level, for the second part of the framework. Each of the seed extents are progressively resized according to an unsupervised, information-theoretic loss with structured-prediction regularizers. This reshaping process uses multi-scale, adaptively-weighted features to delineate class-specific transitions in local image content. Content-addressable memories are inserted at various parts of our framework so that it can leverage features from previously seen images to improve segmentation performance for related images. We evaluate our weakly-supervised framework using real-world CSAS imagery that contains over ten seafloor classes and ten target classes. We show that our framework performs comparably to nine fully-supervised deep networks. Our framework also outperforms eleven of the best weakly-supervised deep networks. We achieve state-of-the-art performance when pre-training on natural imagery. The average absolute performance gap to the next-best weakly-supervised network is well over ten percent for both natural imagery and sonar imagery. This gap is found to be statistically significant.


On the Interplay of Artificial Intelligence and Space-Air-Ground Integrated Networks: A Survey

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Space-Air-Ground Integrated Networks (SAGINs), which incorporate space and aerial networks with terrestrial wireless systems, are vital enablers of the emerging sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks. Besides bringing significant benefits to various applications and services, SAGINs are envisioned to extend high-speed broadband coverage to remote areas, such as small towns or mining sites, or areas where terrestrial infrastructure cannot reach, such as airplanes or maritime use cases. However, due to the limited power and storage resources, as well as other constraints introduced by the design of terrestrial networks, SAGINs must be intelligently configured and controlled to satisfy the envisioned requirements. Meanwhile, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is another critical enabler of 6G. Due to massive amounts of available data, AI has been leveraged to address pressing challenges of current and future wireless networks. By adding AI and facilitating the decision-making and prediction procedures, SAGINs can effectively adapt to their surrounding environment, thus enhancing the performance of various metrics. In this work, we aim to investigate the interplay of AI and SAGINs by providing a holistic overview of state-of-the-art research in AI-enabled SAGINs. Specifically, we present a comprehensive overview of some potential applications of AI in SAGINs. We also cover open issues in employing AI and detail the contributions of SAGINs in the development of AI. Finally, we highlight some limitations of the existing research works and outline potential future research directions.


Diffusion Representation for Asymmetric Kernels

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

We extend the diffusion-map formalism to data sets that are induced by asymmetric kernels. Analytical convergence results of the resulting expansion are proved, and an algorithm is proposed to perform the dimensional reduction. In this work we study data sets in which its geometry structure is induced by an asymmetric kernel. We use a priori coordinate system to represent this geometry and, thus, be able to improve the computational complexity of reducing the dimensionality of data sets. A coordinate system connected to the tensor product of Fourier basis is used to represent the underlying geometric structure obtained by the diffusion-map, thus reducing the dimensionality of the data set and making use of the speedup provided by the two-dimensional Fast Fourier Transform algorithm (2-D FFT). We compare our results with those obtained by other eigenvalue expansions, and verify the efficiency of the algorithms with synthetic data, as well as with real data from applications including climate change studies.


Modeling Considerations for Developing Deep Space Autonomous Spacecraft and Simulators

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

To extend the limited scope of autonomy used in prior missions for operation in distant and complex environments, there is a need to further develop and mature autonomy that jointly reasons over multiple subsystems, which we term system-level autonomy. System-level autonomy establishes situational awareness that resolves conflicting information across subsystems, which may necessitate the refinement and interconnection of the underlying spacecraft and environment onboard models. However, with a limited understanding of the assumptions and tradeoffs of modeling to arbitrary extents, designing onboard models to support system-level capabilities presents a significant challenge. In this paper, we provide a detailed analysis of the increasing levels of model fidelity for several key spacecraft subsystems, with the goal of informing future spacecraft functional- and system-level autonomy algorithms and the physics-based simulators on which they are validated. We do not argue for the adoption of a particular fidelity class of models but, instead, highlight the potential tradeoffs and opportunities associated with the use of models for onboard autonomy and in physics-based simulators at various fidelity levels. We ground our analysis in the context of deep space exploration of small bodies, an emerging frontier for autonomous spacecraft operation in space, where the choice of models employed onboard the spacecraft may determine mission success. We conduct our experiments in the Multi-Spacecraft Concept and Autonomy Tool (MuSCAT), a software suite for developing spacecraft autonomy algorithms.


How the Advent of Ubiquitous Large Language Models both Stymie and Turbocharge Dynamic Adversarial Question Generation

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Dynamic adversarial question generation, where humans write examples to stump a model, aims to create examples that are realistic and informative. However, the advent of large language models (LLMs) has been a double-edged sword for human authors: more people are interested in seeing and pushing the limits of these models, but because the models are so much stronger an opponent, they are harder to defeat. To understand how these models impact adversarial question writing process, we enrich the writing guidance with LLMs and retrieval models for the authors to reason why their questions are not adversarial. While authors could create interesting, challenging adversarial questions, they sometimes resort to tricks that result in poor questions that are ambiguous, subjective, or confusing not just to a computer but also to humans. To address these issues, we propose new metrics and incentives for eliciting good, challenging questions and present a new dataset of adversarially authored questions.