Conjoined Twins: Artificial Intelligence and the Invention of Computer Science
How artificial intelligence and computer science grew up together.
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a broad term with no single authoritative definition — and frequently, people mean different things when they use it.
However, AI commonly means:
- The capability of a non-human system to perform functions typically thought of as requiring human intelligence.
- A field of study dedicated to developing these systems.
The term AI is often imprecise. AI is sometimes used interchangeably with machine learning, but the two terms are not identical. Machine learning is one promising set of techniques used to develop AI, but others exist. We disambiguate machine learning and AI more fully [see the link below].
AI is also a moving target. The “AI effect” is a paradox in which problems thought to require AI, once largely solved, are no longer seen as requiring “intelligence.” This dynamic further contributes to ambiguity around the definition of AI.
—CSET Glossary, “Artificial Intelligence”
Generally, [Artificial Intelligence] constitutes a fuzzy term referring to the ability of a machine to perform cognitive functions. Approaches to AI can be subdivided into deductive—that is, model-driven (such as expert systems)—or inductive—that is, data-driven.
—CACM, “There Is No AI Without Data“
Can Generative AI Bots Be Trusted?
A chatbot prompt is a probe into the conversation of a crowd.
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Changing the Nature of AI Research
The emergence of these large learned models is also changing the nature of AI research in fundamental ways.
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How AI is helping historians better understand our past
The historians of tomorrow are using computer science to analyze how people lived centuries ago.
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Toward Verified Artificial Intelligence
Verified AI is the goal of achieving strong, ideally provable assurances of correctness and trustworthiness of AI systems with respect to mathematically specified requirements. Five challenge areas for verified AI: Environment modelling, Formal specification, Modeling learning systems, Scalable formal engines, and Correct-by-construction design.
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The US Military Is Building Its Own Metaverse
Defense tech companies have latched on to the metaverse hype—but what they’re building will be a far cry from Meta’s virtual world.
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AI’s progress isn’t the same as creating human intelligence in machines
Honorees from this year’s 35 Innovators list are employing AI to find new molecules, fold proteins, and analyze massive amounts of medical data.
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Hidden Malware Ratchets Up Cybersecurity Risks
What if cybercriminals could hide pernicious payloads in places where commercial cybersecurity software were unable to detect it? Unfortunately, this approach is both possible and increasingly viable.
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The Troubling Future for Facial Recognition Software
There is promising, if somewhat slow, progress on making facial recognition software less biased.
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Modern Tech Can’t Shield Your Secret Identity
Superheroes worry about having their identities revealed, while the rest of us in the real world worry about surveillance technologies and how they can be easily abused.
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Trust, Regulation, and Human-in-the-Loop AI: within the European region
The E.U. is an early mover in the race to regulate AI, and with the draft E.U. AI Act, it has adopted an assurance-based regulatory environment using yet-to-be-defined AI assurance standards.
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How AI digital twins help weather the world’s supply chain nightmare
Just-in-time shipping is dead. Long live supply chains stress-tested with AI digital twins.
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The Department of Defense is issuing AI ethics guidelines for tech contractors
The controversy over Project Maven shows the department has a serious trust problem. This is an attempt to fix that.
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Responsible AI Guidelines
DIU launched a strategic initiative in March 2020 to implement the DoD’s Ethical Principles for Artificial Intelligence (AI) into its commercial prototyping and acquisition programs.
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DOD Adopts Ethical Principles for Artificial Intelligence
The U.S. Department of Defense officially adopted a series of ethical principles for the use of Artificial Intelligence today following recommendations provided to Secretary of Defense Dr. Mark T. Esper by the Defense Innovation Board last October.
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Trillions of Questions, No Easy Answers: A (home) movie about how Google Search works
Watch our (home) movie: Trillions of Questions, No Easy Answers
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There Is No AI Without Data
AI has not yet delivered on the promises in industry practice. The core business of industrial enterprises is not yet AI-enhanced.
We see a major need for future research regarding functional capabilities and realization technologies for an enterprise data marketplace.
Deep Learning for AI
We believe that deep networks excel because they exploit a particular form of compositionality in which features in one layer are combined in many different ways to create more abstract features in the next layer.
A key question for the future of AI is how do humans learn so much from observation alone?
How AI is reinventing what computers are
Three key ways artificial intelligence is changing what it means to compute.
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The Race to Archive Social Posts That May Prove Russian War Crimes
Painstaking new techniques for archiving social media posts could provide crucial evidence in future prosecutions.
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