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Artificial Intelligence Research Needs Responsible Publication Norms

Rebecca Crootof   Thu, Oct 24, 2019, 12:33 PM

After nearly a year of suspense and controversy, any day now the team of artificial intelligence (AI) researchers at OpenAI will release the full and final version of GPT-2, a language model that can “generate coherent paragraphs and perform rudimentary reading comprehension, machine translation, question answering, and summarization—all without task-specific training.” When OpenAI first unveiled the program in February, it was capable of impressive feats: Given a two-sentence prompt about unicorns living in the Andes Mountains, for example, the program

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Livestream: House Homeland Security Committee Hearing on Artificial Intelligence and Counterterrorism

Vishnu Kannan   Tue, Jun 25, 2019, 9:45 AM

The House Committee on Homeland Security will hold a hearing titled, “Artificial Intelligence and Counterterrorism: Possibilities and Limitations” at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday. A video of the hearing is available here and below.

Witnesses include:

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Principles of AI Governance and Ethics Should Apply to All Technologies

Herb Lin   Fri, Apr 12, 2019, 11:59 AM

Despite Google’s recent dissolution of its artificial intelligence (AI) ethics board, IT vendors (including Google) are increasingly defining principles to guide the development of AI applications and solutions. And it’s worth taking a look at what these principles actually say.

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Artificial Intelligence – A Counterintelligence Perspective: Part IV

Jim Baker   Mon, Oct 29, 2018, 8:36 AM

In my first post in this series, I wrote that one definition of artificial intelligence (AI) is a machine that thinks. But is it? Several people with technical backgrounds in the AI field reached out to me after reading that post. One comment I received that I found striking is that AI is neither A nor I. Instead, it is just computer code. Nothing is thinking; a computer is just following directions. And AI is just inputs to outputs for a goal.

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