Summary
Mike Susong joins Andrew to discuss the impact and potential of AI on the intelligence field. Mike is a former CIA case officer who now oversees global intelligence for a risk management company.
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What You’ll LearnIntelligence
- What AI is and why it matters
- How the Intelligence Community is using AI
- The pros and cons of AI for case officers in the field
- Ukraine - intersections between AI and OSINT
- AI in Alan Turing’s Imitation Game
Reflections
- Replicants, machines and robots
- Will humans become obsolete?
Notes
Mike Susong (Website, LinkedIn) is an expert in the growing field of artificial intelligence. He joins Andrew (Twitter; LinkedIn) to discuss.
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CIA Case Officer, Cyber Entrepreneur, Burning Man Volunteer – with Mike Susong (Part 2 of 2, 2002)
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The Cyber Zeitgeist – with Cyberwire Host Dave Bittner (2021)
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*Beginner Resources*
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Machine Leaning: Explain it to me Like I’m 5 Years Old, Bob Deprizio, Medium (2020)
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What is AI (Artificial Intelligence)?, Youtube (2019) [2 min. video]
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Singularity: Explain it to me Like I’m 5 Years Old, Roey Tzezana, Futurism (2017) [Article]
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Alan Turing: The experiment that shaped artificial intelligence, N. Sharkey, BBC (2012) [Article]
Glossary:
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AGI: Artificial General Intelligence. The unrestricted ability of software to learn, understand, & respond to any intellectual task that a human being is capable of.
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ANI: Artificial Narrow Intelligence. The restricted ability of software to perform a limited subset of intellectual tasks.
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Deep Learning: a machine learning technique that teaches computers to learn by example, something that comes naturally for human beings.
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Machine Learning: The field of study interested in building computational systems that can improve their own performance of some task.
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Natural Language Processing: A field of study that aims to analyze and understand human language communications both spoken and textual.
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Uncanny Divide: Where people feel a sense of unease or revulsion in response to humanoid robots that are highly realistic.
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