Generative AI
Artificial intelligence experts share 6 of the biggest AI innovations of 2023: 'A landmark year'
Fox News contributor Dr. Marc Siegel weighs in on how artificial intelligence can change the patient-doctor relationship on'America's Newsroom.' If you received medical care any time this year, there's a good chance you had a close encounter with artificial intelligence. Widely regarded as the breakout year for AI, 2023 ushered in a whole crop of new and improved tech tools, many of which have impacted the health and wellness space. "2023 has been a landmark year for AI in health care, witnessing groundbreaking advancements that have reshaped medical practices and paved the way for a future where health care is more personalized, efficient and accessible," Dr. Harvey Castro, a Dallas, Texas-based board-certified emergency medicine physician and national speaker on AI in health care, told Fox News Digital. WHAT IS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI)?
RFRL Gym: A Reinforcement Learning Testbed for Cognitive Radio Applications
Rosen, Daniel, Rochez, Illa, McIrvin, Caleb, Lee, Joshua, D'Alessandro, Kevin, Wiecek, Max, Hoang, Nhan, Saffarini, Ramzy, Philips, Sam, Jones, Vanessa, Ivey, Will, Harris-Smart, Zavier, Harris-Smart, Zavion, Chin, Zayden, Johnson, Amos, Jones, Alyse M., Headley, William C.
Radio Frequency Reinforcement Learning (RFRL) is anticipated to be a widely applicable technology in the next generation of wireless communication systems, particularly 6G and next-gen military communications. Given this, our research is focused on developing a tool to promote the development of RFRL techniques that leverage spectrum sensing. In particular, the tool was designed to address two cognitive radio applications, specifically dynamic spectrum access and jamming. In order to train and test reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms for these applications, a simulation environment is necessary to simulate the conditions that an agent will encounter within the Radio Frequency (RF) spectrum. In this paper, such an environment has been developed, herein referred to as the RFRL Gym. Through the RFRL Gym, users can design their own scenarios to model what an RL agent may encounter within the RF spectrum as well as experiment with different spectrum sensing techniques. Additionally, the RFRL Gym is a subclass of OpenAI gym, enabling the use of third-party ML/RL Libraries. We plan to open-source this codebase to enable other researchers to utilize the RFRL Gym to test their own scenarios and RL algorithms, ultimately leading to the advancement of RL research in the wireless communications domain. This paper describes in further detail the components of the Gym, results from example scenarios, and plans for future additions. Index Terms-machine learning, reinforcement learning, wireless communications, dynamic spectrum access, OpenAI gym
In Generative AI we Trust: Can Chatbots Effectively Verify Political Information?
Kuznetsova, Elizaveta, Makhortykh, Mykola, Vziatysheva, Victoria, Stolze, Martha, Baghumyan, Ani, Urman, Aleksandra
This article presents a comparative analysis of the ability of two large language model (LLM)-based chatbots, ChatGPT and Bing Chat, recently rebranded to Microsoft Copilot, to detect veracity of political information. We use AI auditing methodology to investigate how chatbots evaluate true, false, and borderline statements on five topics: COVID-19, Russian aggression against Ukraine, the Holocaust, climate change, and LGBTQ+ related debates. We compare how the chatbots perform in high- and low-resource languages by using prompts in English, Russian, and Ukrainian. Furthermore, we explore the ability of chatbots to evaluate statements according to political communication concepts of disinformation, misinformation, and conspiracy theory, using definition-oriented prompts. We also systematically test how such evaluations are influenced by source bias which we model by attributing specific claims to various political and social actors. The results show high performance of ChatGPT for the baseline veracity evaluation task, with 72 percent of the cases evaluated correctly on average across languages without pre-training. Bing Chat performed worse with a 67 percent accuracy. We observe significant disparities in how chatbots evaluate prompts in high- and low-resource languages and how they adapt their evaluations to political communication concepts with ChatGPT providing more nuanced outputs than Bing Chat. Finally, we find that for some veracity detection-related tasks, the performance of chatbots varied depending on the topic of the statement or the source to which it is attributed. These findings highlight the potential of LLM-based chatbots in tackling different forms of false information in online environments, but also points to the substantial variation in terms of how such potential is realized due to specific factors, such as language of the prompt or the topic.
The Download: the AI Edition
The internet changed everything--how we work and play, how we spend time with friends and family, how we learn, how we consume, how we fall in love, and so much more. Its downsides became clear only when people started using it in vast numbers, and killer apps like social media arrived. Generative AI is likely to be the same. People will start using and misusing it in ways its makers never dreamed of. Generative AI was trained on the internet and so has inherited many of its unsolved issues.
Four trends that changed AI in 2023
Here's what 2023 taught me: The year started with Big Tech going all in on generative AI. The runaway success of OpenAI's ChatGPT prompted every major tech company to release its own version. This year might go down in history as the year we saw the most AI launches: Meta's LLaMA 2, Google's Bard chatbot and Gemini, Baidu's Ernie Bot, OpenAI's GPT-4, and a handful of other models, including one from a French open-source challenger, Mistral. But despite the initial hype, we haven't seen any AI applications become an overnight success. Microsoft and Google pitched powerful AI-powered search, but it turned out to be more of a dud than a killer app.
These six questions will dictate the future of generative AI
That is to say, we're in the dot-com boom, circa 2000. Many companies will go bust. It may take years before we see this era's Facebook (now Meta), Twitter (now X), or TikTok emerge. "People are reluctant to imagine what could be the future in 10 years, because no one wants to look foolish," says Alison Smith, head of generative AI at Booz Allen Hamilton, a technology consulting firm. "But I think it's going to be something wildly beyond our expectations."
TomTom and Microsoft team up to bring generative AI to automobiles
TomTom just announced a "fully integrated, AI-powered conversational automotive assistant" which should start popping up in dashboard infotainment platforms in the near-ish future. The company has issued some bold claims for the AI, saying it'll offer "more sophisticated voice interaction" and allow users to converse naturally to navigate, find stops along a route, control onboard systems, open windows and just about anything else you find yourself doing while driving. The company, best known for GPS platforms, partnered up with Microsoft to develop this AI assistant. Cosmos DB is a multi-model database and Cognitive Services is a set of APIs for use in AI applications, so this should be a capable assistant that draws from the latest advancements. TomTom promises that the voice assistant will integrate into a variety of interfaces offered by major automobile manufacturers, stating that the auto company will retain ownership of its branding.
How Good Are Deep Generative Models for Solving Inverse Problems?
Peng, Shichong, Moazeni, Alireza, Li, Ke
Deep generative models, such as diffusion models, GANs, and IMLE, have shown impressive capability in tackling inverse problems. However, the validity of model-generated solutions w.r.t. the forward problem and the reliability of associated uncertainty estimates remain understudied. This study evaluates recent diffusion-based, GAN-based, and IMLE-based methods on three inverse problems, i.e., $16\times$ super-resolution, colourization, and image decompression. We assess the validity of these models' outputs as solutions to the inverse problems and conduct a thorough analysis of the reliability of the models' estimates of uncertainty over the solution. Overall, we find that the IMLE-based CHIMLE method outperforms other methods in terms of producing valid solutions and reliable uncertainty estimates.
New Horizons: Pioneering Pharmaceutical R&D with Generative AI from lab to the clinic -- an industry perspective
Doron, Guy, Genway, Sam, Roberts, Mark, Jasti, Sai
The rapid advance of generative AI is reshaping the strategic vision for R&D across industries. The unique challenges of pharmaceutical R&D will see applications of generative AI deliver value along the entire value chain from early discovery to regulatory approval. This perspective reviews these challenges and takes a three-horizon approach to explore the generative AI applications already delivering impact, the disruptive opportunities which are just around the corner, and the longer-term transformation which will shape the future of the industry. Selected applications are reviewed for their potential to drive increase productivity, accelerate timelines, improve the quality of research, data and decision making, and support a sustainable future for the industry. Recommendations are given for Pharma R&D leaders developing a generative AI strategy today which will lay the groundwork for getting real value from the technology and safeguarding future growth. Generative AI is today providing new, efficient routes to accessing and combining organisational data to drive productivity. Next, this impact will reach clinical development, enhancing the patient experience, driving operational efficiency, and unlocking digital innovation to better tackle the future burden of disease. Looking to the furthest horizon, rapid acquisition of rich multi-omics data, which capture the 'language of life', in combination with next generation AI technologies will allow organisations to close the loop around phases of the pipeline through rapid, automated generation and testing of hypotheses from bench to bedside. This provides a vision for the future of R&D with sustainability at the core, with reduced timescales and reduced dependency on resources, while offering new hope to patients to treat the untreatable and ultimately cure diseases.
Resource-efficient Generative Mobile Edge Networks in 6G Era: Fundamentals, Framework and Case Study
Lai, Bingkun, Wen, Jinbo, Kang, Jiawen, Du, Hongyang, Nie, Jiangtian, Yi, Changyan, Kim, Dong In, Xie, Shengli
As the next-generation wireless communication system, Sixth-Generation (6G) technologies are emerging, enabling various mobile edge networks that can revolutionize wireless communication and connectivity. By integrating Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) with mobile edge networks, generative mobile edge networks possess immense potential to enhance the intelligence and efficiency of wireless communication networks. In this article, we propose the concept of generative mobile edge networks and overview widely adopted GAI technologies and their applications in mobile edge networks. We then discuss the potential challenges faced by generative mobile edge networks in resource-constrained scenarios. To address these challenges, we develop a universal resource-efficient generative incentive mechanism framework, in which we design resource-efficient methods for network overhead reduction, formulate appropriate incentive mechanisms for the resource allocation problem, and utilize Generative Diffusion Models (GDMs) to find the optimal incentive mechanism solutions. Furthermore, we conduct a case study on resource-constrained mobile edge networks, employing model partition for efficient AI task offloading and proposing a GDM-based Stackelberg model to motivate edge devices to contribute computing resources for mobile edge intelligence. Finally, we propose several open directions that could contribute to the future popularity of generative mobile edge networks.