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Opening the TAR Black Box: Developing an Interpretable System for eDiscovery Using the Fuzzy ARTMAP Neural Network

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

RCV1-v2 and Jeb Bush emails corpora are frequently used in e-Technology-assisted review (TAR) utilizes an information retrieval discovery evaluations [20, 22] because legal matters are often confidential system to discover all, or nearly all, the relevant documents in a [7, 9] and their corpora are unavailable. The 20Newsgroups corpus and help reduce the human effort required to find these documents corpus is commonly used as a test corpus with ART-based algorithms [7, 9, 20]. TAR systems are employed in high-recall tasks [18, 19]; it and the Reuters-21578 corpus are also commonly such as e-discovery, systematic literature reviews, evidence-based used in evaluating text classification algorithms [1].


A Framework for Characterizing Novel Environment Transformations in General Environments

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

To be robust to surprising developments, an intelligent agent must be able to respond to many different types of unexpected change in the world. To date, there are no general frameworks for defining and characterizing the types of environment changes that are possible. We introduce a formal and theoretical framework for defining and categorizing environment transformations, changes to the world an agent inhabits. We introduce two types of environment transformation: R-transformations which modify environment dynamics and T-transformations which modify the generation process that produces scenarios. We present a new language for describing domains, scenario generators, and transformations, called the Transformation and Simulator Abstraction Language (T-SAL), and a logical formalism that rigorously defines these concepts. Then, we offer the first formal and computational set of tests for eight categories of environment transformations. This domain-independent framework paves the way for describing unambiguous classes of novelty, constrained and domain-independent random generation of environment transformations, replication of environment transformation studies, and fair evaluation of agent robustness.


Data Models for Dataset Drift Controls in Machine Learning With Optical Images

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Camera images are ubiquitous in machine learning research. They also play a central role in the delivery of important services spanning medicine and environmental surveying. However, the application of machine learning models in these domains has been limited because of robustness concerns. A primary failure mode are performance drops due to differences between the training and deployment data. While there are methods to prospectively validate the robustness of machine learning models to such dataset drifts, existing approaches do not account for explicit models of the primary object of interest: the data. This limits our ability to study and understand the relationship between data generation and downstream machine learning model performance in a physically accurate manner. In this study, we demonstrate how to overcome this limitation by pairing traditional machine learning with physical optics to obtain explicit and differentiable data models. We demonstrate how such data models can be constructed for image data and used to control downstream machine learning model performance related to dataset drift. The findings are distilled into three applications. First, drift synthesis enables the controlled generation of physically faithful drift test cases to power model selection and targeted generalization. Second, the gradient connection between machine learning task model and data model allows advanced, precise tolerancing of task model sensitivity to changes in the data generation. These drift forensics can be used to precisely specify the acceptable data environments in which a task model may be run. Third, drift optimization opens up the possibility to create drifts that can help the task model learn better faster, effectively optimizing the data generating process itself. A guide to access the open code and datasets is available at https://github.com/aiaudit-org/raw2logit.


Enactive Artificial Intelligence: Subverting Gender Norms in Robot-Human Interaction

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

This paper introduces Enactive Artificial Intelligence (eAI) as an intersectional gender-inclusive stance towards AI. AI design is an enacted human sociocultural practice that reflects human culture and values. Unrepresentative AI design could lead to social marginalisation. Section 1, drawing from radical enactivism, outlines embodied cultural practices. In Section 2, explores how intersectional gender intertwines with technoscience as a sociocultural practice. Section 3 focuses on subverting gender norms in the specific case of Robot-Human Interaction in AI. Finally, Section 4 identifies four vectors of ethics: explainability, fairness, transparency, and auditability for adopting an intersectionality-inclusive stance in developing gender-inclusive AI and subverting existing gender norms in robot design.


Machine Generated Text: A Comprehensive Survey of Threat Models and Detection Methods

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Machine generated text is increasingly difficult to distinguish from human authored text. Powerful open-source models are freely available, and user-friendly tools that democratize access to generative models are proliferating. ChatGPT, which was released shortly after the first edition of this survey, epitomizes these trends. The great potential of state-of-the-art natural language generation (NLG) systems is tempered by the multitude of avenues for abuse. Detection of machine generated text is a key countermeasure for reducing abuse of NLG models, with significant technical challenges and numerous open problems. We provide a survey that includes both 1) an extensive analysis of threat models posed by contemporary NLG systems, and 2) the most complete review of machine generated text detection methods to date. This survey places machine generated text within its cybersecurity and social context, and provides strong guidance for future work addressing the most critical threat models, and ensuring detection systems themselves demonstrate trustworthiness through fairness, robustness, and accountability.


The 2000s Video Game With an Unexpected Lesson for Today's Transportation Debates

Slate

In the spring of 2021, just months before Congress passed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act--heralded by the Biden administration as the largest-ever federal investment in public transit, bridge repair, and clean energy--I found myself playing a lot of Mass Effect Legendary Edition. This was a happy coincidence, because never in my life had the nation been so embroiled in wonky debates about infrastructure priorities and spending. And as it turns out, Mass Effect was the perfect 100-hour video game for that particular moment in history: It's absolutely obsessed with transportation technologies and their social, cultural, and political implications. Despite its revolutionary capacity, we often conceptualize transportation in mundane, frustrating terms: long commutes and congested highways, spotty bus service and increasingly crowded sidewalks littered with e-scooters. That's what makes fiction centered around these questions so important--especially when it comes to thinking through the big investments we want to make in infrastructure, what we hope to accomplish, and the challenges we should anticipate.


Professional Certification Benchmark Dataset: The First 500 Jobs For Large Language Models

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

The research creates a professional certification survey to test large language models and evaluate their employable skills. It compares the performance of two AI models, GPT-3 and Turbo-GPT3.5, on a benchmark dataset of 1149 professional certifications, emphasizing vocational readiness rather than academic performance. GPT-3 achieved a passing score (>70% correct) in 39% of the professional certifications without fine-tuning or exam preparation. The models demonstrated qualifications in various computer-related fields, such as cloud and virtualization, business analytics, cybersecurity, network setup and repair, and data analytics. Turbo-GPT3.5 scored 100% on the valuable Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP) exam. The models also displayed competence in other professional domains, including nursing, licensed counseling, pharmacy, and teaching. Turbo-GPT3.5 passed the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) Series 6 exam with a 70% grade without preparation. Interestingly, Turbo-GPT3.5 performed well on customer service tasks, suggesting potential applications in human augmentation for chatbots in call centers and routine advice services. The models also score well on sensory and experience-based tests such as wine sommelier, beer taster, emotional quotient, and body language reader. The OpenAI model improvement from Babbage to Turbo resulted in a median 60% better-graded performance in less than a few years. This progress suggests that focusing on the latest model's shortcomings could lead to a highly performant AI capable of mastering the most demanding professional certifications. We open-source the benchmark to expand the range of testable professional skills as the models improve or gain emergent capabilities.


Decentralised Semi-supervised Onboard Learning for Scene Classification in Low-Earth Orbit

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

A new generation of satellites is currently bringing hardware suitable for machine learning (ML) onboard spacecraft into Earth orbit. Recent works [1] explored the possibility to train ML models in a distributed manner onboard satellite constellations. Distributed onboard training brings the potential to reduce communication requirements, operational cost and time, and improve autonomy by sharing ML models, trained close to the sensors, instead of the collected data. While previous missions have demonstrated the ability to perform inference onboard spacecraft for data processing [2], training onboard presents additional challenges. Convincingly addressing operational constraints is crucial, as the computational cost of training is significantly higher, and the lack of labeled examples during the mission can often be prohibitive. In this work, we investigate the training of an ML model onboard a satellite constellation for scene classification.


Rhetorical Role Labeling of Legal Documents using Transformers and Graph Neural Networks

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

A legal document is usually long and dense requiring human effort to parse it. It also contains significant amounts of jargon which make deriving insights from it using existing models a poor approach. This paper presents the approaches undertaken to perform the task of rhetorical role labelling on Indian Court Judgements as part of SemEval Task 6: understanding legal texts, shared subtask A. We experiment with graph based approaches like Graph Convolutional Networks and Label Propagation Algorithm, and transformer-based approaches including variants of BERT to improve accuracy scores on text classification of complex legal documents.


Toucha11y: Making Inaccessible Public Touchscreens Accessible

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Despite their growing popularity, many public kiosks with touchscreens are inaccessible to blind people. Toucha11y is a working prototype that allows blind users to use existing inaccessible touchscreen kiosks independently and with little effort. Toucha11y consists of a mechanical bot that can be instrumented to an arbitrary touchscreen kiosk by a blind user and a companion app on their smartphone. The bot, once attached to a touchscreen, will recognize its content, retrieve the corresponding information from a database, and render it on the user's smartphone. As a result, a blind person can use the smartphone's built-in accessibility features to access content and make selections. The mechanical bot will detect and activate the corresponding touchscreen interface. We present the system design of Toucha11y along with a series of technical evaluations. Through a user study, we found out that Toucha11y could help blind users operate inaccessible touchscreen devices.