Mar 4, 2021

🤖 Report from National Security Commission on AI | Personality assessment AI biases | Britain cyber spies embrace AI

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Artificial Intelligence Weekly

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This week: a report from the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, biases in personality assessment AI, Britain’s cyber spies embrace AI, and more.

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Report: National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence

This report presents the NSCAI’s strategy for winning the artificial intelligence era. The 16 chapters in the Main Report provide topline conclusions and recommendations. The accompanying Blueprints for Action outline more detailed steps that the U.S. Government should take to implement the recommendations.

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Thinking about Machines and Thinking | Computer History Museum

When was the term Artificial Intelligence coined? The common belief is that it happened at Dartmouth in 1956. However, five years before that, the concepts were detailed at a Paris conference.

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Objective or Biased | BR24

An exclusive data analysis by BR (Bavarian Broadcasting) data journalists shows that an AI for personality assessment can be swayed by appearances. This might perpetuate stereotypes.

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What it takes to create a GPT-3 product | VentureBeat

GPT-3 continues to be an impressive scientific experiment in AI research. But it remains to be seen whether GPT-3 will be a platform to democratize the creation of AI-powered applications.

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Britain's GCHQ cyber spies embrace the AI revolution | Reuters

Britain’s cyber spies at the GCHQ eavesdropping agency say they have fully embraced AI to uncover patterns in vast amounts of global data to counter hostile disinformation and snare child abusers.

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Report: 2021 AI Index | Stanford University HAI

This edition significantly expands the amount of data available in the report, which was drawn from a broader set of academic, private, and non-profit organizations for calibration. The report also shows the effect of COVID-19 on AI development from multiple perspectives.

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Funding Updates

ScienceLogic raises $105 million to grow its AIOps platform | VentureBeat
Shield AI Raises $90M in Series C Funding | FinSMEs
Splice gets $55 million for its software bringing beats from bedrooms to bandstand | Yahoo News
Otter.ai raises $50 million for AI transcription | VentureBeat

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