🥟 Chao-Down #23: US and China attend first-ever military summit on responsible AI

The AI arms race isn’t just happening between tech giants, but between nation-states as well. 

Today’s edition of Chao-Downs covers multiple stories on AI applied in the military.

We’re seeing the rise of auto-targeting tanks, mass surveillance, and even deepfakes for misinformation campaigns. And it’s not just computer vision. Governments are turning to large language models to simulate war games and accelerate decision-making.

Unlike AI applied on the social web, bringing these technologies into physical systems have real life-or-death consequences. We need to tread carefully.

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

Eric Schmidt Is Building the Perfect AI War-Fighting Machine (WIRED)

Dutch host first summit on 'responsible' use of AI in the military (Reuters)

Why Business is Booming for Military AI Startups (MIT Technology Review)

Lockheed Martin has developed an AI-controlled F-16 that flew on its own for 17 hours (Interesting Engineering)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

Bag of tricks for optimizing machine learning training pipelines (Medium)

WALTS: Walmart AutoML Libraries, Tools and Services (Medium)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

GitHub’s Copilot for Business is now generally available (TechCrunch)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

Using cognitive psychology to understand GPT-3 (arxiv)

Thermodynamic AI: intelligence from nature (link)

ALAN: Autonomously Exploring Robotic Agents in the Real World (robo-explorer.github.io)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

How Rust went from a side project to the world's most-loved programming language (MIT Technology Review)

Ransomware attacks surge against US manufacturing plants (CyberScoop)

One Last Bite 😋