"We live in a 3D world, but when you take a picture, it records that world in a 2D image," says Tianfu Wu, corresponding author of a paper on the work and an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at North Carolina State University. "AI programs receive visual input from cameras. So if we want AI to interact with the world, we need to ensure that it is able to interpret what 2D images can tell it about 3D space. In this research, we are focused on one part of that challenge: how we can get AI to accurately recognize 3D objects -- such as people or cars -- in 2D images, and place those objects in space." While the work may be important for autonomous vehicles, it also has applications for manufacturing and robotics.

The work would help the artificial intelligence used in autonomous vehicles navigate in relation to other vehicles, using the two-dimensional images it receives from an onboard camera. A technique developed by researchers at North Carolina State University (NC State) uses two-dimensional (2D) images to improve the ability of artificial intelligence (AI) programs to identify three-dimensional (3D) objects. Called MonoCon, the technique could improve the navigation of autonomous vehicles in relation to other vehicles using 2D images from onboard cameras, which are less expensive than LiDAR sensors. MonoCon can put 3D objects identified in 2D images into a "bounding box," which indicates to the AI the outermost edges of the objects. Said NC State's Tianfu Wu, "In addition to asking the AI to predict the camera-to-object distance and the dimensions of the bounding boxes, we also ask the AI to predict the locations of each of the box's eight points and its distance from the center of the bounding box in two dimensions," which "helps the AI more accurately identify and predict 3D objects based on 2D images."

Former U.S. secretary of state, Henry Kissinger has said that he's convinced of AI's potential to fundamentally alter human consciousness--including changes in our self-perception and to our strategic decision-making. Kissinger also slammed AI developers for insufficiently thinking through the implications of their creations. Now 96, he was speaking to an audience attending the "Strength Through Innovation" conference currently being held at the Liaison Washington Hotel in Washington, D.C. The conference is being run by the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, which was set up by Congress to evaluate the future of AI in the U.S. as it pertains to national security. Moderator Nadia Schadlow, who in 2018 served in the Trump administration as the Assistant to the President and as Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategy, asked Kissinger about his take on powerful, militarized artificial intelligence and how it might affect global security and strategic decision-making.

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