Abstract:

The field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has seen stages of stagnation followed by tipping points all over its history. Be it in natural language processing/understanding, neural networks, fuzzy systems, or evolutionary computation, these tipping points marked real advances in AI. Today, AI is getting closer and closer to a new tipping point. However, it is a tipping point of a different kind; one with orders of magnitude more significance than any previous one. The age of the human brain project, the era of big data and models, the advances in computational science, the revolution in hardware and sensors, and the success stories made by computational intelligence researchers are all converging to generate this tipping point. In this presentation, the audience will get to see some early signs of the next generation AI systems. Red teaming is the science and art of role-playing an opponent. In this talk, the first of its kind Computational Red Teaming (CRT) system that was able to autonomously red team against humans will be demonstrated. The system integrates Encephalographic (EEG) data (brain signals) with performance metrics and the operational environment to red team with humans. The talk will demonstrate that the next generation AI system, where the biological brain is seamlessly integrated with in-Silico brain, is just at our doorsteps!

Bio Sketch:

Hussein Abbass is a full Professor with the University of New South Wales (UNSW-Australia), Canberra Campus, Australia. In 2014, he is spending his sabbatical visiting the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore. Prof. Abbass is a fellow of the UK Operational Research Society and a fellow of the Australian Computer Society. He is an Associate Editor of six international journals, including the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, and the IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine. He has been serving as the Chair of the Emerging Technologies Technical Committee of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (IEEE-CIS) for 2 years and has served on many different committees within IEEE-CIS. Prof. Abbass is currently a College Member of the Australian Research Council (ARC) Engineering, Mathematics, and Information Cluster. He was a member of the Research Evaluation Committee of Excellence of Research Australia in 2010. His was a visiting academic at University of Illinois – Urbana Champaign spending his sabbatical in 2005, and a UNSW John-Yu Fellow at Imperial College London in 2003. He published close to 200 refereed papers. His current research interest is in computational red teaming and integrating human brain data with advanced analytics and automation.