2023's first Weekly Dose of Optimism is jam packed. Alzheimer's, solar, cancer, Roman concrete. Plus my conversation with @MissionZeroTech founder @NickChadwick18 ft. the WORLD PREMIERE of our new intro song by the wickedly talented @Yung_Spielburg
RESEARCH
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Artificial Narrow Intelligence Versus Artificial General Intelligence Comparison
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#Infographic: Artificial Narrow Intelligence Vs Artificial General Intelligence by @ingliguori #ArtificialIntelligence #ComputerScience #AI #smartmachines #AGI #NarrowAI #MachineLearning #DeepLearning #DataScience #RPA #NeuralNetworks #Robots #Bot #DigitalTwins #ModelOps #MLOps
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AI Knowledge Hoarding: China and Corporate Secrecy in Science
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Se refiere a los que se están aprovechando del conocimiento científico que en el mundo de la IA suele ser de libre acceso, pero que luego ni publican sus avances ni tecnologías. A nivel país está claro que se refiere a China. A nivel empresa no sé en quién estarán pensando.
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Machine Unlearning Failures: Adaptivity and Request Ordering Limitations
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And https://
arxiv.org/abs/2106.04378 by Gupta @crispy_jung @sethvneel @Aaroth Sharifi-Malvajerdi @ChrisWaites which shows that adaptivity and ordering of MU requests can fail to cause a point to be unlearned, even if the requests are fulfilled honestly. 9/n -
Camouflage Poisoning Attack on Machine Learning Models
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For more details, please check out the paper and the code! And definitely remember the names of the first authors, Waterloo undergrads Jimmy Di (applied to grad schools this year) and Jack Douglas. https://
arxiv.org/abs/2212.10717 https://
github.com/Jimmy-di/camou
flage-poisoning
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Defending Against Data Poisoning Through Strategic Point Addition
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From a technical perspective, we raise an interesting new question. Usually, one mitigates data poisoning attacks by *removing* training points. But camouflage essentially asks: can you negate data poisoning attacks by *adding* points! Interesting beyond MU. 7/n
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Adversarial Attacks on Machine Learning Model Updates Research
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We were inspired by previous papers in the "attacking MU" space. See https://
arxiv.org/abs/2109.08266 by Marchant @bipr @ScottAlfeld
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Dataset Poisoning Attack via Malicious Machine Unlearning
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Here's how it works. The adversary first poisons the dataset, and the victim trains a model on it. Everything behaves as normal. But the adversary later requests some of their points to be unlearned. Only after the unlearning, then the model behaves in some malicious way. 4/n
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Targeted Poisoning Attacks in Machine Learning Models
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In this work we focus on targeted poisoning attacks (the goal is to misclassify a specific point in the test set) & used this attack (
https://
arxiv.org/abs/2009.02276) ft @jonasgeiping @wronnyhuang @tomgoldsteincs
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Machine Unlearning: Making AI Models Forget Training Data
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Machine unlearning (MU): given a trained model, how do you make it "forget" points in its training data? A lot of work has focused on how to do this fast (i.e., without retraining the whole model). See also this nice article by @tsimonite https://
wired.com/story/machines
-can-learn-can-they-unlearn/
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