Machine Learning & AI

Pentagon Wants AI to Predict Events Before They Occur

IEEE Spectrum: What if by leveraging today’s artificial intelligence to predict events several days in advance, countries like the United States could simply avoid warfare in the first place? It sounds like the ultimate form of deterrence, a strategy that would…

AI fake-face generators can be rewound to reveal the real faces they trained on

Technology Review: Load up the website This Person Does Not Exist and it’ll show you a human face, near-perfect in its realism yet totally fake. Refresh and the neural network…

Understanding the Coronavirus Is Like Reading a Sentence

IEEE Spectrum: Since the beginning of 2020, we’ve heard an awful lot about RNA. First, an RNA coronavirus created a global pandemic and brought the world to a halt. Scientists were quick to sequence the novel coronavirus’s genetic code, revealing it…

An Inconvenient Truth About AI

IEEE Spectrum: We are well into the third wave of major investment in artificial intelligence. So it’s a fine time to take a historical perspective on the current success of AI. In the 1960s, the early AI researchers often breathlessly predicted that human-level intelligent machines were only 10 years away….