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APL and the Intelligence Community Tackle Malware in the Age of AI

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Demonstration of machine-vision Trojan. TrojAI researcher (not teddy bear) Neil Fendley demonstrates a backdoor he embedded in the deep networkย โ€ฆ


CII sets up forum on artificial intelligence

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Industry body CII today said it has set up a forum on artificial intelligence (AI) that will prioritise four sectors for the current year. Headed by IBM's regional head Sandip Patel, the forum also interacted with NITI Aayog senior adviser Anna Roy on the government's efforts to enhance the use of technology, while also focusing on the use of AI for public good. The four sectors which have been prioritised are banking and financial services industries, retail, social (healthcare) and manufacturing (automotive). The forum will seek to build a strong AI ecosystem by building awareness, skilling and re-skilling the workforce, helping shape a conducive policy and regulatory regime, and encouraging public-private partnerships in R&D, said a CII statement. "The transformational potential of responsible AI-driven solutions can be used to fuel India's growth story in a big way as the economy moves into the recovery and revival phase," said the forum's chief Patel.


AI Meets IoT: How Artificial Intelligence is Shaping the Future of Our Daily Lives. A look...

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[P] What are adversarial examples in NLP?

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You might be familiar with the idea of adversarial examples in computer vision. My group has been researching adversarial examples in NLP for some time and recently developed TextAttack, a library for generating adversarial examples in NLP. The library is coming along quite well, but I've been facing the same question from people over and over: What are adversarial examples in NLP? Even people with extensive experience with adversarial examples in computer vision have a hard time understanding, at first glance, what types of adversarial examples exist for NLP. We wrote an article to try and answer this question, unpack some jargon, and introduce people to the idea of robustness in NLP models.


People love the Sonos One speaker--but is it still worth $200?

USATODAY - Tech Top Stories

It might sound like hyperbole, but I don't believe it's an exaggeration to say that the Sonos One speaker has improved my quality of life. Prior to my experience with the Sonos One, I primarily listened to music on small smart devices like Echo Dot, my phone, or at best through my car speakers. The touch controls on top of the One can turn the mic on/off, play/pause music, and adjust the volume. It wasn't until my work at Reviewed allowed me to try out a pair of second-gen Sonos One speakers that I realized the extent to which I had been depriving myself of a quality music experience, and how the right music can change the way life feels. In the hellscape that has been the year 2020, it's been more important than ever to find ways to decompress and allow my mind to escape to a happier place.


This AI tool shows which politicians and issues are getting the most TV time

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A new AI-powered tool can show you how much screen time different public figures and topics are getting on TV. Stanford University researchers created the system to increase transparency around editorial decisions, by analyzing who's getting coverage and what they're talking about. "By letting researchers, journalists, and the public quantitatively measure who and what is in the news, the tool can help identify biases and trends in cable TV news coverage," said project leader Maneesh Agrawala. Normally, monitoring organizations and newsrooms rely on painstaking manual counting to find out who and what's getting screen time. But the Stanford Cable TV News Analyzer uses computer vision to calculates this automatically. The AI then shows what people are discussing by synchronizing the video with transcripts of their speech.


The 'Double Dragon' Movie Should Be a Cult Classic

WIRED

The 1994 action movie Double Dragon, based on the 1987 beat-em-up arcade game, is a surprisingly enjoyable low-budget romp. Science fiction author Zach Chapman says it reminds him of old favorites such as Surf Ninjas and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. "It should be a cult classic," Chapman says in Episode 429 of the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy podcast. It seems like people enjoyed making the movie. Geek's Guide to the Galaxy host David Barr Kirtley also enjoyed Double Dragon, particularly the performance from Party of Five star Scott Wolf.


'Phineas and Ferb' offer trippy, escapist animated fun

Boston Herald

Rated G. On Disney . Disney just made your lockdown world a little bit brighter -- and more hallucinatory -- with "Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Candace Against the World." After 103 TV episodes and a 2011 TV movie, "Phineas and Ferb" have finally gotten the feature film they deserve. The conventionally animated, semi-musical film brings together a talented voice cast, including Ashley Tisdale as Candace, a young woman having an identity crisis, who is convinced the universe is against her. Candace also believes that her little brothers Phineas (Vincent Martella, channeling Pee-wee Herman) and Ferb (David Errigo Jr.), who build inventions in the backyard such as a giant, juggling clown robot, are no fun either.