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Artificial Intelligence Nomenclature Identified From Delphi Study on Key Issues Related to Trust and Barriers to Adoption for Autonomous Systems
Doyle, Thomas E., Tucci, Victoria, Zhu, Calvin, Zhang, Yifei, Yassa, Basem, Rashidiani, Sajjad, Khan, Md Asif, Samavi, Reza, Noseworthy, Michael, Yule, Steven
The rapid integration of artificial intelligence across traditional research domains has generated an amalgamation of nomenclature. As cross-discipline teams work together on complex machine learning challenges, finding a consensus of basic definitions in the literature is a more fundamental problem. As a step in the Delphi process to define issues with trust and barriers to the adoption of autonomous systems, our study first collected and ranked the top concerns from a panel of international experts from the fields of engineering, computer science, medicine, aerospace, and defence, with experience working with artificial intelligence. This document presents a summary of the literature definitions for nomenclature derived from expert feedback.
Where AI Can -- and Can't -- Help Talent Management
For more than a year now, organizations have struggled to hold onto talent. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 4.2 million people voluntarily quit their jobs in August 2022. At the same time, there were 10.1 million job openings. Between the Great Resignation and more recent trends like "quiet quitting," traditional approaches for winning talented workers haven't always cut it in this fiercely competitive market. An emerging wave of AI tools for talent management have the potential to help organizations find better job candidates faster, provide more impactful employee development, and promote retention through more effective employee engagement. But while AI might enable leaders to address talent management pain points by making processes faster and more efficient, AI implementation comes with a unique set of challenges that warrant significant attention.
Technical Program Manager, Data Team (6-month FTC)
At DeepMind, we value diversity of experience, knowledge, backgrounds and perspectives and harness these qualities to create extraordinary impact. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of sex, race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, parental or related condition (including breastfeeding) or any other basis as protected by applicable law. If you have a disability or additional need that requires accommodation, please do not hesitate to let us know. We are looking for a Technical Program Manager to support a newly formed team looking after data at DeepMind! This is an opportunity to focus on our efforts with dataset acquisition.
BrainChip Fortifies Neuromorphic Patent Portfolio with New Awards and IP Acquisition
Laguna Hills, Calif. – DATE, 2022 – BrainChip Holdings Ltd (ASX: BRN, OTCQX: BRCHF, ADR: BCHPY), the world's first commercial producer of ultra-low power neuromorphic AI IP, has extended the breadth and depth of its neuromorphic IP with two new patents granted by the US Patents and Trademarks Office (USPTO), and the acquisition of previously licensed technology from Toulouse Tech Transfer (TTT). These latest additions of technical assets reinforce BrainChip's event-based processor differentiation for high performance, ultra-low power AI inference and on-chip learning. BrainChip also acquired full ownership of the IP rights related to JAST learning rule and algorithms from French technology transfer-based company TTT, including issued patent EP3324344 and pending patents US2019/0286944 and EP3324343. The invention related to the acquired IP rights include pattern detection algorithms that provide BrainChip with significant competitive advantages. The company held an exclusive license for the IP prior to their acquisition.
LSG Attention: Extrapolation of pretrained Transformers to long sequences
Condevaux, Charles, Harispe, Sébastien
Transformer models achieve state-of-the-art performance on a wide range of NLP tasks. They however suffer from a prohibitive limitation due to the self-attention mechanism, inducing $O(n^2)$ complexity with regard to sequence length. To answer this limitation we introduce the LSG architecture which relies on Local, Sparse and Global attention. We show that LSG attention is fast, efficient and competitive in classification and summarization tasks on long documents. Interestingly, it can also be used to adapt existing pretrained models to efficiently extrapolate to longer sequences with no additional training. Along with the introduction of the LSG attention mechanism, we propose tools to train new models and adapt existing ones based on this mechanism.
How to Do Things without Words: Modeling Semantic Drift of Emoji
Emoji have become a significant part of our informal textual communication. Previous work addressing the societal and linguistic functions of emoji overlook the evolving meaning of the symbol. This evolution could be addressed through the framework of semantic drifts. In this paper we model and analyze the semantic drift of emoji and discuss the features that may be contributing to the drift, some are unique to emoji and some are more general.
BLOX: Macro Neural Architecture Search Benchmark and Algorithms
Chau, Thomas Chun Pong, Dudziak, Łukasz, Wen, Hongkai, Lane, Nicholas Donald, Abdelfattah, Mohamed S
Neural architecture search (NAS) has been successfully used to design numerous high-performance neural networks. However, NAS is typically compute-intensive, so most existing approaches restrict the search to decide the operations and topological structure of a single block only, then the same block is stacked repeatedly to form an end-to-end model. Although such an approach reduces the size of search space, recent studies show that a macro search space, which allows blocks in a model to be different, can lead to better performance. To provide a systematic study of the performance of NAS algorithms on a macro search space, we release Blox - a benchmark that consists of 91k unique models trained on the CIFAR-100 dataset. The dataset also includes runtime measurements of all the models on a diverse set of hardware platforms. We perform extensive experiments to compare existing algorithms that are well studied on cell-based search spaces, with the emerging blockwise approaches that aim to make NAS scalable to much larger macro search spaces.
Harfang3D Dog-Fight Sandbox: A Reinforcement Learning Research Platform for the Customized Control Tasks of Fighter Aircrafts
Özbek, Muhammed Murat, Yıldırım, Süleyman, Aksoy, Muhammet, Kernin, Eric, Koyuncu, Emre
The advent of deep learning (DL) gave rise to significant breakthroughs in Reinforcement Learning (RL) research. Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) algorithms have reached super-human level skills when applied to vision-based control problems as such in Atari 2600 games where environment states were extracted from pixel information. Unfortunately, these environments are far from being applicable to highly dynamic and complex real-world tasks as in autonomous control of a fighter aircraft since these environments only involve 2D representation of a visual world. Here, we present a semi-realistic flight simulation environment Harfang3D Dog-Fight Sandbox for fighter aircrafts. It is aimed to be a flexible toolbox for the investigation of main challenges in aviation studies using Reinforcement Learning. The program provides easy access to flight dynamics model, environment states, and aerodynamics of the plane enabling user to customize any specific task in order to build intelligent decision making (control) systems via RL. The software also allows deployment of bot aircrafts and development of multi-agent tasks. This way, multiple groups of aircrafts can be configured to be competitive or cooperative agents to perform complicated tasks including Dog Fight. During the experiments, we carried out training for two different scenarios: navigating to a designated location and within visual range (WVR) combat, shortly Dog Fight. Using Deep Reinforcement Learning techniques for both scenarios, we were able to train competent agents that exhibit human-like behaviours. Based on this results, it is confirmed that Harfang3D Dog-Fight Sandbox can be utilized as a 3D realistic RL research platform.
SEC's Gary Gensler on how artificial intelligence is changing finance
Artificial intelligence is giving finance a boost -- through robo advising, its ability to improve fraud detection and claims processing, and more. Despite the upsides, there are risks and public policy challenges that must be considered, said Gary Gensler, chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission and a former professor at MIT Sloan. "I think that we're living in a truly transformational time," said Gensler, who spoke at the recent AI Policy Forum summit at MIT. Artificial intelligence is "every bit as transformational as the internet," especially when it comes to predictive data analytics, "but it comes with some risks." During the conversation, Gensler shared his thoughts on how artificial intelligence is changing finance. Having solid predictive models is crucial in AI, whether it's in social media or in driverless cars.
An ornithologist, a cellist and a human rights activist: the 2022 MacArthur Fellows
This year's 25 MacArthur Fellows will each receive $800,000, a "no-strings-attached award to extraordinarily talented and creative individuals as an investment in their potential," according to the MacArthur Foundation website. John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation hide caption This year's 25 MacArthur Fellows will each receive $800,000, a "no-strings-attached award to extraordinarily talented and creative individuals as an investment in their potential," according to the MacArthur Foundation website. It is perhaps the most coveted award in academia, the arts and sciences. You can't get nominated and the pool of candidates is a tightly-held secret. This year's 25 MacArthur Fellows will each receive $800,000, a "no-strings-attached award to extraordinarily talented and creative individuals as an investment in their potential," according to the MacArthur Foundation website.