Abstract: We present a model of sense-making that greatly facilitates the collaboration between an intelligent analyst and a knowledge-based agent. It is a general model grounded in the science of evidence and the scientific method of hypothesis generation and testing, where sense-making hypotheses that explain an observation are generated, relevant evidence is then discovered, and the hypotheses are tested based on the discovered evidence. We illustrate how the model enables an analyst to directly instruct the agent to understand situations involving the possible production of weapons (e.g., chemical warfare agents) and how the agent becomes increasingly more competent in understanding other situations from that domain (e.g., possible production of centrifuge-enriched uranium or of stealth fighter aircraft) Abstract: There is a growing desire to create computer systems that can communicate effectively to collaborate with humans on complex, open-ended activities. Assessing these systems presents significant challenges. We describe a framework for evaluating systems engaged in open-ended complex scenarios where evaluators do not have the luxury of comparing performance to a single right answer.

It is no secret that deep neural networks (DNNs) can achieve state-of-the-art performance in a wide range of complicated tasks. DNN models such as BigGAN, BERT, and GPT 2.0 have proved the high potential of deep learning. Deploying DNNs on mobile devices, consumer devices, drones and vehicles however remains a bottleneck for researchers. For such practical, on-device scenarios, DNNs must have a smaller footprint. The requirement for smaller DNNs has pushed researchers in two opposite directions: either hand-craft DNNs through design principles, or rely entirely on automated network architecture search.

An AI team at the University of Waterloo, Canada, developed a new type of compact family of deep neural networks (AttoNets), which can even run on smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices. The main problem with available neural networks is they require high configuration machines and difficult to run in any real-world situations. While AttoNets is faster and efficient for edge computing and can have great applications in aerospace, automotive, finance, agriculture, medical diagnostics, consumer electronics sector, etc. AttoNets uses Generative Synthesis, which was recently validated by Intel, and in a recent paper with Audi Electronics Ventures shown to accelerate the deep learning design for autonomous driving greatly.