Eye On A.I.

Daniel Ho, associate director of Stanford's Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence talks about the proposed National AI Research Resource, an effort to expand the data and compute available to academic researchers, leveling the playing field with researchers in private companies.  

Andrew Feldman, one of the founders and CEO of Cerebras Systems, talks about the company's wafer-scale computer chip optimized for machine learning and about the network of chips that company has built that has as much computing power as a human brain.

Adobe's head of research, Gavin Miller, talks about AI-enhanced creativity, guarding against manipulation of visual media and his own AI-enabled robot snakes.

Seth Dobrin, chief AI officer at IBM, talks about the company's tools to increase the trustworthiness, fairness and explainability of AI models.

This week, I talk to Ron Schmelzer and Kathleen Walch, founders of Cognilytica, a research, advisory, and education firm focused on artificial Intelligence. We talked about the rise of MLOps, data labeling, unsupervised learning and what it will take to get us to human-level artificial general intelligence.

This week I talk to the inimitable Ben Goertzel, about his non-profit foundation, SingularityNET, his work with the robotic head, Sophia, his talking Philip K. Dick avatar, his work in medical AI, his frustration over Big Tech's dominance of AI research and his own quest for AGI.

AI commentator and investor Kaifu Lee talks about his book AI 2041 in which he considers possible futures for humanity if deep learning applications develop as planned.

NSCAI staff Justin Lynch, Ryan Carpenter and Lance Lantier talk about how the 1986 Goldwater Nichols Act that reorganized the US military inspired the commission's recommendations to reorganize the Department of Defense to drive adoption of emerging and disruptive technology capabilities.

NSCAI staff Christie Lawrence and Rama Elleru talk about how intellectual property protections play an unexpected role in guiding US innovation and contribute to the global competition with China for dominance in AI.

NSCAI staff Tess Deblanc-Knowles and Mike Garris talk about the steps the US government needs to take to foster AI innovation in the years ahead.

NSCAI staff Paul Leka and Christie Lawrence talk about forming an international emerging technology coalition to strengthen and coordinate the use of emerging technology for democratic ends.

NSCAI staff Mike Garris and Mike Jackson spoke about what needs to be done to lay the foundations for an AI-infused national security going forward.

NSCAI staff Aristotle Vainikos and Parker Wild spoke about the commission's recommendations for establishing public-private innovation hubs around the country that can encourage and tap the entrepreneurial potential between the coasts and expand the participation of private enterprise in national security.

NSCAI staff Mike Jackson and Darren Wright talk about the commission's recommendations for bringing the intelligence community up to speed with AI. They spoke about the organizational changes needed and the culture shift required to ensure that the intelligence community is integrating AI in its work.

NSCAI staff David Kumashiro and Courtney Barno talked about the commission's recommendations on democratizing AI for the warfighter and enabling bottom-up AI innovation.

NSCAI staff Kevin McGuinness and Raina Davis talked about the commission's recommendations for increasing public visibility about the government's AI needs and lowering the barrier to entry for companies that want to help meet those needs.

NSCAI staff Chris Rice and Courtney Barno talk about what the US has to do to get up to speed on its AI military capabilities by 2025 in order to outpace our competitors, particularly China.

NSCAI staff Justin Lynch, Lance Lantier and Shaantam Chawla, talked about educating the warfighter for the AI era. They spoke about what kind of training warfighters need to effectively integrate AI, from commanders to infantry men and women and how that integration will change the nature of warfare and the military's perception of itself in the years ahead.

Ylli Bajraktari, executive director of the National Security Commission on AI, talked about what he considers the most important recommendations in the commission's final report and about the need for Congress and the White House to act swiftly to counter China's concerted efforts to beat the US in deploying this critical technology around the world.

This week, I talk to Cade Metz, the New York Times' lead reporter on artificial intelligence, about his new book, "Genius Makers, the Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google Facebook  and the World."  The book focuses on some of the personalities and companies responsible for the current wave of AI innovation and touches on some of the controversies swirling around the new technology today.

Kent Walker, who oversees the Google's AI ethics and responsible AI innovation, talks about how Google reviews AI systems for trust and safety and the outlook for safe AI going forward. 

Daeil Kim, cofounder of AI.Reverie, talks about the role that synthetic data can play in training AI models.        

Alan Aspuru Guzik, a professor at the University of Toronto, talks about his work in new materials discovery with machine learning and building a fully automated materials lab that can synthesize molecules discovered in a computer.  

Director of the Pentagon's Joint AI Center, Lieutenant General Michael S. Groen talks about improving war fighting and the challenge of China.

David Yi and Yohan Lee from Riiid Labs, the leading startup applying machine-learning to education, talk about making personalized instruction available to anyone in the world with an internet-connected device. They spoke about the family of algorithms behind their system and the recently concluded Riiid AIEd Challenge, a Kaggle competition that engaged more than 3,400 teams across the world in de...