Health Care
"Much of the current machine-learning research is focused on sifting through patients’ electronic health records to determine what combination of risk factors most accurately reflects cognitive decline."
J Am Geriatr Soc. 2020 Jan;68(1):103-111. doi: 10.1111/jgs.16182. Epub 2019 Oct 14. Development and Validation of eRADAR: A Tool Using EHR Data to Detect Unrecognized Dementia
npj Digital Medicine volume 1, Article number: 8 (2018) Detecting neurodegenerative disorders from web search signals
Deep Learning
MIT Technology Review: AI pioneer Geoff Hinton: “Deep learning is going to be able to do everything”: Thirty years ago, Hinton’s belief in neural networks was contrarian. Now it’s hard to find anyone who disagrees, he says.
Covid-19
Workforce
WaPo: Biden Needs to Keep an Eye on Jobs — in China
"Over the next decade, more than 20% of China’s workforce is expected to be re-employed in high-end manufacturing. Workers will need clearer direction in this new environment on jobs, incomes and benefits. Already, state media is publicizing a host of new jobs like artificial intelligence trainers as officially recognized occupations that can bring big increases in pay."
Axios: AI and automation are creating a hybrid workforce
Existential Threats
NYTimes: Elon Musk: ‘A.I. Doesn’t Need to Hate Us to Destroy Us" interview with Kara Swisher
Kara Swisher: Right. So many years ago when we met you said A.I. would treat us like house cats. That they’re too smart to hate us. And you said, we’ll be like house cats. That’s how they think of us. And then later, when I met with you at your office, you switched it to anthills, which was your analogy that when you see an anthill you don’t kick it over unless you’re kind of a jerk. But when you’re making a highway you just roll over it. Can you give a metaphor of where we are with AI right now?
Elon Musk: I was just pointing out with the anthill analogy that A.I. does not need to hate us to destroy us. In a sense, that if it decides that it needs to go in a particular direction and we’re in the way then it would without no hard feelings it would just roll over us. We would roll over an anthill that’s in the way of a road. You don’t hate ants. You’re just building a road. It’s a risk not a prediction. So, yeah. I think that we really need to think of intelligence as really not being uniquely confined to humans. And that the potential for intelligence in computers is far greater than in biology. Just far, far greater. There’s a great, quite a funny, essay called, I think it’s called, “They’re Made of Meat“. Which, like if some super advanced civilization coming across Earth and they’re obviously all computers and they just can’t believe we’re made of meat.
Military
DefenseOne: Pentagon's 'AI Factory' Looks To Distribute Tools Across DOD
"The Joint Artificial Intelligence Center is looking to become an AI service hub for the Defense Department rather than a product building unit, according to the JAIC’s new director."
In August Deloitte Consulting was awarded a $106 million contract to design and build the Joint Common Foundation (JCF). The JCF will "operate as a kind of factory" providing DOD with “an AI development environment to test, validate and field AI capabilities.”
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