In this episode of the Voices from DARPA podcast, Bruce Draper, a program manager since 2019 in the agency’s Information Innovation Office, explains how his fascination with the ways people reason, think, and believe what they believe steered him into a lifelong embrace of computer science and artificial intelligence (AI) research. At DARPA, Draper — who says he welcomes working at a place where an academic scientist like himself can influence the direction of entire fields of research — oversees a portfolio of programs that collectively are about making artificial intelligence learn faster, less prone to mistakes and flawed inferences, and less vulnerable to misuse and deception. One of his programs aims to imbue computers with nonverbal communication abilities so that AIs collaborating with people can integrate a human being’s facial and gestural cues with written and oral ones. Another program seeks to make machine-learning algorithms into quicker studies that require simpler data s...
Kashin is a broken mirror - Russia Beyond the Headlines Spy scandal demonstrates closer relations between Moscow and Washington 11:31 13/07/2010 Oddly enough, the scandal has shown that political ties between Russian and U.S. leadership are much closer than one might think. >> Other news of the day The brutal beating of journalist Oleg Kashin smack in the center of Moscow could not but shock the Russian public, which should have already become used to such shocks over the past years. Eight journalists have been killed this year alone, with another 40 having been attacked. Many high-profile murders of members of the media have not been solved or have been solved only partially. Criminals know that the statistics for solving crimes against journalists are on their side. This merely increased the sense of impunity and the feeling that they could get away with anything among them and those who commissioned such murders. —Rossiiskaya Gazeta The criminals knew very well that an attac...
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