Darwin was a techie? Who knew?
Researchers
propose paradigm that trains AI agents through evolution
A
paper
published
by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, San Francisco research
firm OpenAI, Facebook AI Research, the University of California at
Berkeley, and Shanghai Jiao Tong University describes a paradigm that
scales up multi-agent reinforcement learning, where AI models learn
by having agents interact within an environment such that the agent
population increases in size over time. By maintaining sets of
agents in each training stage and performing mix-and-match and
fine-tuning steps over these sets, the coauthors say the paradigm —
Evolutionary Population Curriculum — is able to promote agents with
the best adaptability to the next stage.
Pretend you are healthier than you are?
Who Should
Be Saved First? Experts Offer Ethical Guidance
… Facing
this dilemma recently — who gets a ventilator or a hospital bed —
Italian doctors sought ethical counsel and were
told to consider an approach that draws on utilitarian
principles.
In
layman’s terms, a utilitarianism approach would maximize overall
health by directing care toward those most likely to benefit the most
from it. If you had only one ventilator, it would go to someone more
likely to survive instead of someone deemed unlikely to do so. It
would not go to whichever patient was first admitted, and it would
not be assigned via a lottery system. (If there are ties within
classes of people, then a lottery — choosing at random — is what
ethicists recommend.)
Does/will
this rise to bio-terrorism? (And some tools we didn’t know
existed)
AI
snitches on naughty Brits who won’t stay home during coronavirus
pandemic
The
results suggest that stricter measures to tackle the coronavirus are
needed
… The
results show that the government’s laissez-faire response to the
outbreak wasn’t working. The findings will be welcomed by people
calling for stricter measures to tackle the pandemic, which critics
fear are
leading us to a 9/11-style erosion of civil liberties.
(Related)
Smartphone
data reveal which Americans are social distancing (and not)
Washington
Post –
“If you have a smartphone, you’re probably contributing to a
massive coronavirus
surveillance
system. And it’s revealing where Americans have — and haven’t
— been practicing social distancing. On Tuesday, a company called
Unacast
that
collects and analyzes phone GPS location data launched a “Social
Distancing Scoreboard”
that grades, county by county, which residents are changing behavior
at the urging of health officials. It uses the reduction in the
total distance we travel as a rough index for whether we’re staying
put at home.
Comparing
the nation’s mass movements from March 20 to an average Friday,
Washington, D.C., gets an A, while Wyoming as a whole earns an F.
How do they know that? Efforts to track public health during the
coronavirus pandemic are a reminder of the many ways phones reveal
our personal lives,
both as individuals and in the aggregate. Unacast’s location data
comes from games, shopping and utility apps that tens of millions of
Americans have installed on their phones — information the company
normally analyzes for retailers, real estate firms and marketers…”
(Related)
Coronavirus:
S'pore Government to make its contact-tracing app freely available to
developers worldwide
… Launched
last Friday, the TraceTogether app can identify people who have been
within 2m of coronavirus patients for at least 30 minutes, using
wireless Bluetooth technology. Its developers say the app is useful
when those infected cannot recall whom they had been in close
proximity with for an extended duration.
For
the app to start tracing, the Bluetooth setting on mobile phones has
to be turned on.
If
a user gets infected, the authorities will be able to quickly find
out the other users he has been in close contact with, allowing for
easier identification of potential cases and helping curb the spread
of the virus.
Shouldn’t
everyone own their data?
New
Research from Newark Reveals Strong Adoption of Artificial
Intelligence within the Internet of Things Ecosystem
Newark
published new research on the Internet of Things (IoT) which confirms
strong adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) within IoT devices.
The company’s research showed that 49% of respondents already use
AI in their IoT applications, with Machine Learning (ML) the most
used technology (28%), followed by cloud-based AI (19%).
… Other
statistics that came from the survey are listed:
- 70% of respondents prefer to own the data collected by an edge device as opposed to it being owned by the IoT solution provider.
- 46% of engineers prefer to design a complete edge-to-cloud and security solution themselves
- 54% of respondents are adopting off-the-shelf hardware
Worth
exploring?
ABA
digital resources available for students and teachers
“As
students and teachers rely more on remote learning amid the COVID-19
health emergency, the American Bar Association Division
for Public Education is
offering free digital resources on legal topics. The resources
provide a way to explore current and historical information about the
law to help boost learning though school doors are closed. As
teachers and students are faced with taking on new educational
digital opportunities and responsibilities, the Division for Public
Education is committed to its mission to advance the public
understanding of law and its role in society. Resources include a
toolkit on the 19th Amendment, a digital magazine for teachers called
Insights on Law & Society, lesson plans for Law Day, and a
classroom resource on current Supreme Court cases.”
- Insights on Law & Society magazine for teachers, which has resources on the 2020 Census, at www.insightsmagazine.org
Grab it now?
Announcing
a National Emergency Library to Provide Digitized Books to Students
and the Public
To
address our unprecedented global and immediate need for access to
reading and research materials, as of today, March 24, 2020, the
Internet Archive will suspend waitlists for the 1.4 million (and
growing) books in our lending library by creating a National
Emergency Library to
serve the nation’s displaced learners. This suspension will run
through June 30, 2020, or the end of the US national emergency,
whichever is later.
… This
library brings together all the books from Phillips
Academy Andover and
Marygrove
College,
and much of Trent
University’s collections,
along with over a million other books donated from other libraries to
readers worldwide that are locked out of their libraries.
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