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Our 180th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
With hosts Andrey Kurenkov (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris)
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Our 179th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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- Grok 2's beta release features new image generation using Black Forest Labs' tech.
- Google introduces Gemini Voice Chat Mode available to subscribers and integrates it into Pixel Buds Pro 2.
- Huawei's Ascend 910C AI chip aims to rival NVIDIA's H100 amidst US export controls.
- Overview of potential risks of unaligned AI models and skepticism around SingularityNet's AGI supercomputer claims.
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Our 178th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
NOTE: this is a re-upload with fixed audio, my bad on the last one! - Andrey
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In this episode:
- Notable personnel movements and product updates, such as Character.ai leaders joining Google and new AI features in Reddit and Audible.
- OpenAI's dramatic changes with co-founder exits, extended leaves, and new lawsuits from Elon Musk.
- Rapid advancements in humanoid robotics exemplified by new models from companies like Figure in partnership with OpenAI, achieving amateur-level human performance in tasks like table tennis.
- Research advancements such as Google's compute-efficient inference models and self-compressing neural networks, showcasing significant reductions in compute requirements while maintaining performance.
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Our 177th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
With guest co-host Jon Krohn from the super data science podcast (https://www.superdatascience.com/podcast)!
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In this episode, hosts Andrey Kurenkov and Jon Krohn dive into significant updates and discussions in the AI world, including Instagram's new AI features, Waymo's driverless cars rollout in San Francisco, and NVIDIA’s chip delays. They also review Meta's AI Studio, character.ai CEO Noam Shazir's return to Google, and Google's Gemini updates. Additional topics cover NVIDIA's hardware issues, advancements in humanoid robots, and new open-source AI tools like Open Devon. Policy discussions touch on the EU AI Act, the U.S. stance on open-source AI, and investigations into Google and Anthropic. The impact of misinformation via deepfakes, particularly one involving Elon Musk, is also highlighted, all emphasizing significant industry effects and regulatory implications.
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Our 176th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
NOTE: apologies for this episode coming out about a week late, things got in the way of editing it...
With hosts Andrey Kurenkov (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris)
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Our 175th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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In this episode of Last Week in AI, hosts Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremy Harris explore recent AI advancements including OpenAI's release of GPT 4.0 Mini and Mistral’s open-source models, covering their impacts on affordability and performance. They delve into enterprise tools for compliance, text-to-video models like Hyper 1.5, and YouTube Music enhancements. The conversation further addresses AI research topics such as the benefits of numerous small expert models, novel benchmarking techniques, and advanced AI reasoning. Policy issues including U.S. export controls on AI technology to China and internal controversies at OpenAI are also discussed, alongside Elon Musk's supercomputer ambitions and OpenAI’s Prover-Verify Games initiative.Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/
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Our 174rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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In this episode of Last Week in AI, we delve into the latest advancements and challenges in the AI industry, highlighting new features from Figma and Quora, regulatory pressures on OpenAI, and significant investments in AI infrastructure. Key topics include AMD's acquisition of Silo AI, Elon Musk's GPU cluster plans for XAI, unique AI model training methods, and the nuances of AI copying and memory constraints. We discuss developments in AI's visual perception, real-time knowledge updates, and the need for transparency and regulation in AI content labeling and licensing.
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Our 173rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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In this episode of Last Week in AI, we explore the latest advancements and debates in the AI field, including Google's release of Gemini 1.5, Meta's upcoming LLaMA 3, and Runway's Gen 3 Alpha video model. We discuss emerging AI features, legal disputes over data usage, and China's competition in AI. The conversation spans innovative research developments, cost considerations of AI architectures, and policy changes like the U.S. Supreme Court striking down Chevron deference. We also cover U.S. export controls on AI chips to China, workforce development in the semiconductor industry, and Bridgewater's new AI-driven financial fund, evaluating the broader financial and regulatory impacts of AI technologies.Timestamps + links:
Our 172nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Our 171st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Our 170th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Our 168th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Our 168th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
With guest host Gavin Purcell from AI for Humans podcast!
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Our 167th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
With guest host Daliana Liu (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dalianaliu/) from The Data Scientist Show!
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Our 166th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Our 165th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Our 164th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Our 163rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Note: apology for this one coming out a few days late, got delayed in editing it -Andrey
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Our 162nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Our 161st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Note - one extra story we didn't get to but worth knowing from this week: ‘Totally surreal’: OpenAI shares first short films created with new AI tool Sora
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Our 160th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Our 159th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Our 158th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Our 157th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Our 156th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Our 155th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Correction: Andrey said CLIP came out with DALL-E 2; it came out alongside the first DALL-E.
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Our 154th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Correction: Andrey mentioned "State space machines", he meant "State space models"
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Our 153rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Our 152nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Our 151st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Our 150th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Our 149th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Our 148th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Our 147th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Correction: Gemini also supports audio
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Our 146th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Note: this one is coming out a bit late, sorry! We'll have a new ep with coverage of the big news about Gemini and the EU AI Act out soon though.
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Our 145th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news, this time around with guest co-hosts Kevin and Gavin from AI For Humans podcast
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Our 144th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news, now back with the usual hosts!
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Our 143rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news, now back with the usual hosts!
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Our 142nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI new.
Apologies for this one coming out after a pause, episodes will resume being released regularly as of this week.
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Our 141st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news, now back with the usual hosts!
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Our 140th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Note: the CEO of GitHub disputes "Report: GitHub Copilot Loses an Average of $20 Per User Per Month"
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Our 139th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news, now back with the usual hosts!
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Our 138th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news, with guest host Jon Krohn of the the SuperDataScience podcast!!
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Our 137th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
With guest host Jessica Dai. Check out her Reboot publication!
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Our 136th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
With guest host Daniel Bashir. Check out his AI interview podcast!
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Our 135th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Apologies for pod being late again... -Andrey
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A special non-news episode in which Andrey and Jeremie discussion AI X-Risk!
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(00:00) Intro
(03:55) Topic overview
(10:22) Definitions of terms
(35:25) AI X-Risk scenarios
(41:00) Pathways to Extinction
(52:48) Relevant assumptions
(58:45) Our positions on AI X-Risk
(01:08:10) General Debate
(01:31:25) Positive/Negative transfer
(01:37:40) X-Risk within 5 years
(01:46:50) Can we control an AGI
(01:55:22) AI Safety Aesthetics
(02:00:53) Recap
(02:02:20) Outer vs inner alignment
(02:06:45) AI safety and policy today
(02:15:35) Outro
Links
Taxonomy of Pathways to Dangerous AI
Existential Risks and Global Governance Issues Around AI and Robotics
Current and Near-Term AI as a Potential Existential Risk Factor
AI x-risk, approximately ordered by embarrassment
Classification of Global Catastrophic Risks Connected with Artificial Intelligence
Our 134th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Apologies for pod being a bit late this week!
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Our 133rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Our 132nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Our 131th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Our 130th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Co-hosted this week by Jon Krohn of the Super Data Science Podcast podcast.
Correction: Elon Musk's company is named xAI, not x.AI.
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Our 129th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Our 126th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
NOTE: sorry about the poor audio quality :( will be better next week!
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Our 125th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Check out Jeremie's new book Quantum Physics Made Me Do It
Quantum Physics Made Me Do It tells the story of human self-understanding through the lens of physics. It explores what we can and can’t know about reality, and how tiny tweaks to quantum theory can reshape our entire picture of the universe. And because I couldn't resist, it explains what that story means for AI and the future of sentienceYou can find it on Amazon in the UK, Canada, and the US — here are the links:
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Our 120th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Check out Jeremie's new book Quantum Physics Made Me Do It
Quantum Physics Made Me Do It tells the story of human self-understanding through the lens of physics. It explores what we can and can’t know about reality, and how tiny tweaks to quantum theory can reshape our entire picture of the universe. And because I couldn't resist, it explains what that story means for AI and the future of sentienceYou can find it on Amazon in the UK, Canada, and the US — here are the links:
UK version | Canadian version | US version
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(00:00) Intro / Banter
(04:35) Episode Preview
(06:00) Russia's Sberbank releases ChatGPT rival GigaChat + Hugging Face releases its own version of ChatGPT + Stability AI launches StableLM, an open source ChatGPT alternative
(14:30) Stack Overflow joins Reddit and Twitter in charging AI companies for training data + Inside the secret list of websites that make AI like ChatGPT sound smart
(24:45) Big Tech is racing to claim its share of the generative AI market
(27:42) Microsoft Building Its Own AI Chip on TSMC's 5nm Process
(30:45) Snapchat’s getting review-bombed after pinning its new AI chatbot to the top of users’ feeds
(33:30) Create generative AI video-to-video right from your phone with Runway’s iOS app
(35:50) Align your Latents: High-Resolution Video Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models
(40:30) Autonomous Agents & Agent Simulations
(46:13) Scaling Transformer to 1M tokens and beyond with RMT
(49:05) Meet MiniGPT-4: An Open-Source AI Model That Performs Complex Vision-Language Tasks Like GPT-4
(50:50) Visual Instruction Tuning
(52:25) AudioGPT: Understanding and Generating Speech, Music, Sound, and Talking Head
(54:05) Performance of ChatGPT on the US Fundamentals of Engineering Exam: Comprehensive Assessment of Proficiency and Potential Implications for Professional Environmental Engineering Practice
(58:20) ChatGPT is still no match for humans when it comes to accounting
(01:01:13) Large Language Models Are Human-Level Prompt Engineers
(01:05:00) RedPajama, a project to create leading open-source models, starts by reproducing LLaMA training dataset of over 1.2 trillion tokens
(01:05:55) Do Embodied Agents Dream of Pixelated Sheep: Embodied Decision Making using Language Guided World Modelling
(01:08:45) Fundamental Limitations of Alignment in Large Language Models
(01:11:35) Harnessing the Power of LLMs in Practice: A Survey on ChatGPT and Beyond
(01:15:40) Tool Learning with Foundation Models
(01:17:20) With AI Watermarking, Creators Strike Back
(01:22:02) EU lawmakers pass draft of AI Act, includes copyright rules for generative AI
(01:26:44) How can we build human values into AI?
(01:32:20) How prompt injection can hijack autonomous AI agents like Auto-GPT
(01:34:30) AI Simply Needs a Kill Switch
(01:39:35) Anthropic calls for $15 million in funding to boost the government’s AI risk assessment work
(01:41:48) ‘AI isn’t a threat’ – Boris Eldagsen, whose fake photo duped the Sony judges, hits back
(01:45:20) AI Art Sites Censor Prompts About Abortion
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(03:08) Elon Musk shows off humanoid robot prototype at Tesla AI Day
(07:15) It’s not just floods and fires: This AI forecasts how climate change will impact your city
(10:00) Artificial Intelligence Spending Grew 20.7% Worldwide in 2021, According to IDC
(10:52) Tesla is being sued over Autopilot and Elon Musk’s Full Self-Driving predictions
(11:50) Uber Eats and Nuro sign a 10-year deal to do robot food delivery in California and Texas
(13:00) Announcing the PyTorch Foundation: A new era for the cutting-edge AI framework
(13:45) Meta’s new text-to-video AI generator is like DALL-E for video , Google answers Meta’s video-generating AI with its own, dubbed Imagen Video
(19:05) OpenAI open-sources Whisper, a multilingual speech recognition system
(24:00) Why DeepMind Is Sending AI Humanoids to Soccer Camp
(25:00) How Transformers Seem to Mimic Parts of the Brain
(25:30) NVIDIA's new AI model quickly generates objects and characters for virtual worlds
(26:45) Clearview AI, Used by Police to Find Criminals, Now in Public Defenders’ Hands , House Democrats debut new bill to limit US police use of facial recognition
(30:30) Artist receives first known US copyright registration for generative AI art
(33:14) Getty Images bans AI-generated content over fears of legal challenges
(34:00) A.I. Is Making It Easier Than Ever for Students to Cheat
(34:50) There’s no Tiananmen Square in the new Chinese image-making AI
(35:45) US to invest $50 billion in spring 2023 as it looks to counter Chinese chip development
(36:25) Darth Vader’s Voice Emanated From War-Torn Ukraine
(39:40) I Resurrected "Ugly Sonic" with Stable Diffusion Textual Inversion
(43:00) Artist uses AI to extract color palettes from text descriptions
(43:55) Hellblade developer Ninja Theory confirms it won’t replace voice actors with AI
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Our 108th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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(01: 32) Can artificial intelligence really help us talk to the animals?
(06:13) How rangers are using AI to help protect India’s tigers
(09:13) Meta Starts Testing Its Latest AI Chatbot, BlenderBot 3
(10:35) AI startup Cerebras celebrated for chip triumph where others tried and failed
(11:35) You can (sort of) generate art like Dall-E with TikTok’s latest filter
(13:10) Open-source rival for OpenAI’s DALL-E runs on your graphics card
(16:00) Wearable AI Sensor Supports Personalized Health Data Processing, Analysis
(20:15) AI pilot can navigate crowded airspace
(24:18) Hyundai announces $400M AI, robotics institute powered by Boston Dynamics
(25:30) In simulation of how water freezes, artificial intelligence breaks the ice
(26:26) New algorithm aces university math course questions
(27:28) The AI-powered swimmer is able to switch between different locomotory gaits adaptively to navigate toward any target location on its own
(28:25) Facial recognition smartwatches to be used to monitor foreign offenders in UK
(32:30) Man Sues City of Chicago, Claiming Its AI Wrongly Imprisoned Him
(35:35) AI Contractors Eyeing Bigger Role Backed by Chips Bill Funds
(37:26) China drafts rules on use of self-driving vehicles for public transport
(38:30) Baidu's robotaxis don't need any human staff in these parts of China
(39:35) U.S. appeals court says artificial intelligence can’t be patent inventor
(41:45) Robot Repeatedly Rearranges Remnants In The Round
(44:20) Think Your Street Needs a Redesign? Ask an AI
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Our 105th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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(01:30) AI speeds sepsis detection to prevent hundreds of deaths
(05:05) Inside Midjourney, The Generative Art AI That Rivals DALL-E
(09:20) OpenAI expands access to DALL-E 2, its powerful image-generating AI system
(10:30) Amazon-owned self driving firm Zoox seeks to test robotaxi in California
(12:10) Baidu unveils latest autonomous electric vehicle: Apollo RT6
(13:10) Neural Sleeve is a bionic leg wrap that uses AI to correct walking patterns
(14:05) Novel method allows robots to learn in the wild
(18:45) Clinicians can build trust with machine learning through experience
(24:00) Machine learning identifies gun buyers at risk of suicide
(24:36) Microsoft launches simulator to train drone AI systems
(24:50) Open source platform enables research on privacy-preserving machine learning
(25:17) DeepMind & UCL’s Stochastic MuZero Achieves SOTA Results in Complex Stochastic Environments
(26:15) Meet the startups using AI to help doctors fight burnout
(30:22) Will AI Steal Submarines’ Stealth?
(36:15) Absurd AI-Generated Professional Food Photography with DALL-E 2
(40:05) If A.I. Generated Book Jackets Based on Literary Titles…
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(1:50) Royal Mail is Doing the Right Thing with Drone Delivery
(6:10) Google uses AI to digitise maps in the utilities industry
(8:57) AI on the Ball: Startup Shoots Computer Vision to the Soccer Pitch
(9:26) Google Adds Machine Learning-Powered Studio Lighting To Video Calls
(12:20) Pony.ai loses permit to test autonomous vehicles with driver in California
(12:52) Researchers develop algorithm to divvy up tasks for human-robot teams
(25:17) Tiny robotic crab is smallest-ever remote-controlled walking robot
(26:12) TartanDrive dataset likely largest for off-road environments
(26:48) AI Framework Cuts Time, Effort Needed to Predict Critical Care Outcomes
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(28:25) China and Europe are leading the push to regulate A.I. — one of them could set the global playbook
(33:30) New York State Office for the Aging deploys AI robots as companions for older adults
(37:25) Oxford High School tests AI gun detection system in wake of shooting
(38:38) An Autonomous Car Blocked a Fire Truck Responding to an Emergency
(40:12) U.S. firm Clearview A.I. fined for illegally collecting images of Brits' faces
(41:19) Pentagon names new chief of responsible artificial intelligence
(42:05) The Day I Became Friends with a Robot
(44:26) I Used AI To See What These 23 Popular Cartoon Characters Would Look Like In Real Life
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Our 98th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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(2:22) Autonomous cargo ship completes 500 mile voyage, avoiding hundreds of collisions
(6:47) Investors pull back on artificial intelligence
(9:49) Clearbot Neo autonomously clears plastic from harbors - "Open Ocean Engineering’s Clearbot Neo is a robotic boat that autonomously navigates harbors, canals and rivers to collect trash that would otherwise wash into the ocean."
(10:30) You can practice for a job interview with Google AI - "Never mind reading generic guides or practicing with friends — Google is betting that algorithms can get you ready for a job interview. The company has launched an Interview Warmup tool that uses AI to help you prepare for interviews across various roles."
(11:02) Uber Eats Dabbles With Delivering Food Via Robots - "Uber Eats is now testing autonomous food delivery in the Los Angeles area."
(12:12) Ford-backed robotaxi startup Argo AI is ditching its human safety drivers in Miami and Austin - "Robotaxi startup Argo AI said Tuesday it has begun operating its autonomous test vehicles without human safety drivers in two U.S. cities — Miami and Austin — a major milestone for the Ford- and Volkswagen-backed company. For now, those driverless vehicles won't be carrying paying customers."
(13:17) DeepMind’s new AI can perform over 600 tasks, from playing games to controlling robots
(20:10) Google claims its text-to-image AI delivers 'unprecedented photorealism'
(25:30) Simultaneous emulation of neuronal and synaptic properties promotes the development of brain-like artificial intelligence - "Researchers have reported a nano-sized neuromorphic memory device that emulates neurons and synapses simultaneously in a unit cell, another step toward completing the goal of neuromorphic computing designed to rigorously mimic the human brain with semiconductor devices."
(26:27) Face-to-face screening combined with machine learning model performs best at suicide risk prediction - "According to a study published in JAMA Network Open, a combination of in-person screenings and machine learning worked better than either method alone when it came to predicting suicide attempts and suicidal ideation in adults."
(27:11) Google’s Universal Pretraining Framework Unifies Language Learning Paradigms - "Their 20B parameter model surpasses the state-of-the-art 175B GPT-3 on the zero-shot SuperGLUE benchmark and triples the performance of T5-XXL on one-shot summarization tasks."
(27:49) Robotic surgery is safer and improves patient recovery time - "Robot-assisted surgery used to perform bladder cancer removal and reconstruction enables patients to recover far more quickly and spend significantly (20 per cent) less time in hospital, concludes a first-of-its kind clinical trial led by scientists at UCL and the University of Sheffield."
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(35:09) Israeli firm hopes AI can curb drownings
(38:12) Fatal Tesla Model S Crash in California Prompts Federal Probe - "The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating a fatal crash involving a 2022 Tesla Model S that may have had its automated driving system activated."
(39:10) Facebook issues $397 checks to Illinois residents as part of class-action - "More than a million Illinois residents will receive a $397 settlement payment from Facebook this week, thanks to a legal battle over the platform’s since-retired photo-tagging system that used facial recognition."
(39:50) Clearview AI's Facial Recognition Tool Coming to Apps, Schools - “Clearview AI is expanding sales of its facial recognition software to companies from mainly serving the police, it told Reuters, inviting scrutiny on how the startup capitalizes on billions of photos it scrapes from social media profiles. Instead of online photo comparisons, the new private-sector offering matches people to ID photos and other data that clients collect with subjects' permission. It is meant to verify identities for access to physical or digital spaces.”
(41:00) A Novelist and an AI Cowrote Your Next Cringe-Read
(44:03) AI Made This Thumbnail!
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Nvidia unveils new technology to speed up AI, launches new supercomputer
Kroger and Nvidia partner to ‘reinvent the shopping experience’ with AI and digital twin simulations
Top AI execs, including Richard Socher, launch AIX Ventures
Research & AdvancementsResearchers From Cortical Labs Develop DishBrain: A Neural Network With Biological Neurons
Seeing an elusive magnetic effect through the lens of machine learning
AI confirms the obvious: The pandemic bummed people out
Society & EthicsUS-China collaboration in AI papers drops amid ongoing tech war, Stanford report shows
Banks Using AI Are Ripe for Russian Sabotage
Automation will erase 'knowledge jobs' before most blue collar jobs: Future Today Institute CEO
Ukraine uses facial recognition to identify dead Russian soldiers, minister says
Software vendors are pushing "explainable A.I." that often isn't
Fun & NeatUbisoft shows off machine learning tool for modelling animals
Nvidia shows off AI model that turns a few dozen snapshots into a 3D-rendered sceneOur 90th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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(01:10) Procedural storytelling is exploding the possibilities of video game narratives
(04:16) Twitch Introduces Machine Learning Feature to Detect Suspicious Users
(07:28) DeepMind’s AI helps untangle the mathematics of knots
(11:06) Yale researchers combat biases in machine learning algorithms
(13:40) Ex-Googler Timnit Gebru Starts Her Own AI Research Center
(17:20) US rejects calls for regulating or banning ‘killer robots
(19:50) Who, exactly, authored this AI-generated spin on Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo?
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Our 79th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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(01:10) Alphabet is putting its prototype robots to work cleaning up around Google’s offices
(04:42) Grammarly raises $200M at a $13B valuation to make you an even better writer using AI / AI-powered writing assistant Writer nabs $21M
(07:03) A Leap Forward in Computer Vision: Facebook AI Says Masked Autoencoders Are Scalable Vision Learners
(09:27) Research Professor Adji Bousso Dieng Is Out to Change the World With AI
(11:42) A Utah company says it’s revolutionized truth-telling technology. Experts are highly skeptical
(13:45) South Korea is Selling Millions of Photos To Facial Recognition Researchers
(16:00) AWS makes AI and machine learning tangible with first major art debut at Smithsonian
(19:00) ‘Paint Me a Picture’: NVIDIA Research Shows GauGAN AI Art Demo Now Responds to Words
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A special discussion episode, where we do not cover AI news but instead chat about our experiences teaching AI classes at Stanford with Abigail See, a graduate from the Stanford AI Lab and a good friend of ours.
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Our 78th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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(01:40) Walmart is using fully driverless trucks to ramp up its online grocery business
(05:20) AI startup funding hits record high of $17.9B in Q3 / Robot orders by companies surge as labor shortages linger
(09:50) University of Waterloo AI Researchers Introduce A New NLP Model ‘AfriBERTa’ For African Languages Using Deep Learning Techniques
(12:40) AI skin cancer diagnoses risk being less accurate for dark skin – study
(16:55) Israel escalates surveillance of Palestinians with facial recognition program in West Bank
(22:15) Tesla vehicle in ‘Full Self-Driving’ beta mode ‘severely damaged’ after crash in California
(26:15) CMU opens first AI maker space to let students 'sharpen the cutting edge of AI'
(28:25) Machine Learning Shushes Stressed Dogs
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Our 77th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Our 73rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Our 72st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Our 69th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Our 68th Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Our 67th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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With a nudge from AI, ketamine emerges as a potential rare disease treatment
AI Wrote Better Phishing Emails Than Humans in a Recent Test
These Algorithms Look at X-Rays' and Somehow Detect Your Race
Tably, An AI-Powered Camera App, Give You A Deeper Understanding Of Your Cat's Health And Mood
Man defends against package thieves using machine learning AI, flour, and very loud sirens
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Meet BeachBot, a beach rover that uses AI to remove cigarette butts from beaches
Here Is A Fully Autonomous AI-Powered Beehive That Could Save Bee Colonies
Researchers demonstrate that malware can be hidden inside AI models
Facebook AI Releases ‘VoxPopuli’, A Large-Scale Open Multilingual Speech Corpus For AI Translations in NLP Systems
China built the world's largest facial recognition system. Now, it's getting camera-shy.
Twitter announces first algorithmic bias bounty challenge
Say Hello To The Tokyo Olympic Robots
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For this crossover episode, we thought it’d be fun to chat about some of the topics that have recently been covered on the AI Today podcast, in particular what has been happening with AI in government.
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Our 65th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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The future of self-driving? Maybe less like Elon Musk and more like Domino's pizza robots
Reasoning with Language Models and Knowledge Graphs for Question Answering
AI now enables robots to adapt rapidly to changing real world conditions
Voice clone of Anthony Bourdain prompts synthetic media ethics questions
Retail stores are packed with unchecked facial recognition, civil rights organizations say
Google CEO Still Insists AI Revolution Bigger Than Invention of Fire
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This avocado armchair could be the future of AI, For Its Latest Trick
Facial-Recognition Tools in Spotlight in New Jersey False Arrest Case
New' Nirvana Song Created 27 Years After Kurt Cobain's Death Via AI Software
As well as the general trends these stories represent.
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Our 64th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news
This week:
This AI publicly shames politicians, but don’t laugh just yet
AI-Generated Art Scene Explodes as Hackers Create Groundbreaking New Tools
What A Long, Strange Trip It's Been: EleutherAI One Year Retrospective
YouTube’s recommender AI still a horrorshow, finds major crowdsourced study
Attackers use ‘offensive AI’ to create deepfakes for phishing campaigns
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Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/124
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Our 63rd Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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This week:Study finds that few major AI research papers consider negative impacts
Researchers turn to machine learning to predict when immunotherapy will be effective
Israel used world's first AI-guided combat drone swarm in Gaza attacks
Google's algorithm misidentified an engineer as a serial killer
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/123
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
An interview with Sean McGregor, the ML architect at the neural accelerator startup Syntiant who also works with the XPRIZE Foundation and is the creator and maintainer of the Partnership on AI's Incident Database.
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Our 62nd Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! On this episode, more controllable GAN, more controllable language models, AI for wildfires and reading lips, being critical of human oversight of AI, surveillance by AI in China, and some fun AI weirdness.
This week:
Google Survey Explores Methods for Making DL Models ‘Smaller, Faster, and Better’
Machine learning models that detect COVID-19 on chest X-rays are not suitable for clinical use
GitHub and OpenAI launch a new AI tool that generates its own code
How Twitter hired tech's biggest critics to build ethical AI
LinkedIn’s job-matching AI was biased. The company’s solution? More AI.
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/122
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
An interview with Jordan Harrod, a PhD Candidate in the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology program, a YouTuber who creates educational videos about AI, and an advocate for evidence-based policy.
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Check out her channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/JordanHarrod
Detailed bio: Jordan Harrod is a Ph.D. Candidate in Medical Engineering and Medical Physics at the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology program. Her research focuses on using neuromodulation to understand pain and consciousness, and using neurotechnology and machine learning to develop new tools for brain stimulation. She is also a significant communicator and educator focused on AI, with her YouTube channel having many videos on how we interact with artificial intelligence in our daily lives, and she is also the Chief Operating Officer of the MIT Science Policy Review, a peer-reviewed science policy journal.
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Our 61st Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! On this episode, more controllable GAN, more controllable language models, AI for wildfires and reading lips, being critical of human oversight of AI, surveillance by AI in China, and some fun AI weirdness.
Check out our interview with the creator of AI Weirdness (that we discuss as our last article) here:
https://www.letstalkai.show/e/ai-weirdness-interview/
This week:
The False Comfort of Human Oversight as an Antidote to A.I. Harm
China's tech workers pushed to limits by surveillance software
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/121
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Our 60th Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! On this episode, new ways to scale training, a take on RL being enough, care bots, creepy fake humans, AI for AI chips, City Brains in China, and cheaper robot dogs.
This week:
DeepMind scientists: Reinforcement learning is enough for general AI
Google is using AI to design its next generation of AI chips more quickly than humans can
Across China, AI ‘city brains’ are changing how the government runs
This $2,700 robot dog will carry a single bottle of water for you
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/120
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Our 59th Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
Google Ventures-backed Merlin Labs is building AI that can fly planes
Self-Driving Truck Completes 950-Mile Trip 10 Hours Faster Than Human Driver
King County is first in the country to ban facial recognition software
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/119
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Our 58th Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
Rebel AI group raises record cash after machine learning schism
All together now: the most trustworthy covid-19 model is an ensemble
A rogue killer drone 'hunted down' a human target without being instructed to, UN report says
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/118
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Our 57 Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
GPT-3’s free alternative GPT-Neo is something to be excited about
Facebook Wav2vec-U learns to recognize speech from unlabeled data
Deepfake dubs could help translate film and TV without losing an actor's original performance
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/117
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
An interview with Janelle Shane, the creator of aiweirdness.com and author of 'You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How AI Works and Why It’s Making the World a Weirder Place'.
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Janelle Shane works as a research scientist in Colorado, where she makes computer-controlled holograms for studying the brain, and other light-steering devices. She is also a self-described A. I. Humorist - on aiweirdness.com, she writes about AI and the sometimes hilarious, sometimes unsettling ways that algorithms get things wrong. Her work has also been featured in the New York Times, The Atlantic, WIRED, Popular Science, and more, AND she has also given the TED talk “The danger of AI is weirder than you think” in 2019.
Her book, “You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How AI Works and Why It’s Making the World a Weirder Place” uses cartoons and humorous pop-culture experiments to look inside the minds of the algorithms that run our world, making artificial intelligence and machine learning both accessible and entertaining.
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Our 56th Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
Tesla privately admits Elon Musk has been exaggerating about ‘full self-driving’
Tesla in fatal California crash may have been in autopilot mode, officials say
DMV probing whether Tesla violates state regulations with self-driving claims
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/116
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Our 55th Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/114
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Our 54th Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
Lyft sells self-driving unit to Toyota’s Woven Planet for $550M
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/114
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Our 53drd Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
AI Pinpoints Local Pollution Hotspots Using Satellite Images
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/113
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Our 52nd Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
‘No one was driving’ in Tesla crash that killed two men in Spring, Texas, report says
Black women, AI, and overcoming historical patterns of abuse
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/112
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Our 51st Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
Government audit of AI with ties to white supremacy finds no AI
Companies are racing to bring A.I. to the masses with no code software
New' Nirvana Song Created 27 Years After Kurt Cobain's Death Via AI Software
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/111
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An interview with Cade Metz, a New York Times reporter covering artificial intelligence, driverless cars, robotics, virtual reality, and other emerging areas. Previously, he was a senior staff writer with Wired magazine and the U.S. editor of The Register, one of Britain’s leading science and technology news sites. His first book, "Genius Makers", tells the stories of the The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World.
Get the book: http://bit.ly/GeniusMakers
Follow Cade on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CadeMetz/
And on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cademetz/
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Our 50th Last Week in AI episode! With some exciting news and our usual news coverage. Enjoy our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/110
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Our 49th Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/106
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Our 48th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
This OpenAI GPT-3 Powered Demo Is A Glimpse of NPCs In The Future
Band of AI startups launch ‘rebel alliance’ for interoperability
This cute book explains AI to children, without scary Terminators
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/105
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Our 47th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
Clearview AI’s plan for invasive facial recognition is worse than you think
This AI-powered gadget could completely disrupt the ridiculous hearing aid market
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/104
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Our 46th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
New AI tool can thwart coronavirus mutations
Deepfake porn is ruining women’s lives. Now the law may finally end it.
0:00 - 0:30 Intro
0:30 - 5:15 News Summary segment
5:15 News Discussion segment
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/103
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Our 45th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
Here’s a Way to Learn if Facial Recognition Systems Used Your Photos
0:00 - 0:30 Intro
0:30 - 4:30 News Summary segment
4:30 News Discussion segment
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/101
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Our 44th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
US commission cites ‘moral imperative’ to explore AI weapons
Why the OECD wants to calculate the AI compute needs of national governments
0:00 - 0:35 Intro
0:35 - 5:00 News Summary segment
5:99 News Discussion segment
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/101
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Jan 20th, 2021 by Chatbot Gone Awry Starts Conversations About AI Ethics in South Korea
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0:35 - 5:25 News Summary segment
5:25 News Discussion segment
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/100
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Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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0:35 - 4:30 News Summary segment
4:30 News Discussion segment
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Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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0:00 - 0:35 Intro
0:35 - 4:45 News Summary segment
4:45 News Discussion segment
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Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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0:40 - 4:00 News Summary segment
4:00 News Discussion segment
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An interview with Juan Mateos-Garcia, the Director of Data Analytics at Nesta (the UK's Innovation Foundation) where he leads a team of data scientists, developers, visualisers and innovation experts who use new datasets, analytics methods and visualisation tools to inform innovation and AI policy. We focus on the recent paper A narrowing of AI research?, which he co-wrote with Joel Klinge and Konstantinos Stathoulopoulos.
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Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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0:00 - 0:40 Intro
0:40 - 4:40 News Summary segment
4:40 News Discussion segment
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An interview with Nur Ahmed, a Strategy PhD candidate at Ivey Business School, Western University, Canada and a Research Fellow at the ScotiaBank Digital Banking Lab about The De-democratization of AI: Deep Learning and the Compute Divide in Artificial Intelligence Research”.
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Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
I asked GPT-3 for the question to “42”. I didn’t like its answer and neither will you.
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0:40 - 5:00 News Summary segment
5:00 News Discussion segment
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/93
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An interview with Emil Wallner, the creator of mlart.co . Emil is an internet-educated, independent machine learning researcher, and resident at the Google Arts & Culture Lab. As a resident at Google he is using machine learning to explore art and culture. Part-time, he applies machine learning to logical tasks such as programming and mathematics.
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Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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0:00 - 0:40 Intro
0:40 - 4:20 News Summary segment
4:20 News Discussion segment
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Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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0:00 - 1:00 Intro
1:00 - 5:00 News Summary segment
5:00 News Discussion segment
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Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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0:00 - 0:40 Intro
0:40 - 5:00 News Summary segment
5:00 News Discussion segment
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An interview with Tom Henighan, a member of the technical staff at OpenAI working on the safety team, about the recent paper “Scaling Laws for Autoregressive Generative Modeling” that he co-authored with many others at OpenAI.
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NOTE: audio for andrey is a bit rough this week, sorry!
Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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0:00 - 0:40 Intro
0:40 - 5:00 News Summary segment
5:00 News Discussion segment
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://www.skynettoday.com/digests/the-eighty-ninth
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week Automating Image Abuse: deepfake bots on Telegram, Activists Turn Facial Recognition Tools Against the Police, Tesla is putting ‘self driving’ in the hands of drivers amid criticism the tech is not ready, Google AI tech will be used for virtual border wall, CBP contract shows
0:00 - 0:40 Intro
0:40 - 5:40 News Summary segment
5:40 News Discussion segment
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://www.skynettoday.com/digests/the-eighty-eighth
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An interview with Daniel Leufer and Alexa Steinbrück about their project AIMyths.org.
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Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week Microsoft and partners aim to shrink the ‘data desert’ limiting accessible AI, Access Now resigns from Partnership on AI due to lack of change among tech companies, A radical new technique lets AI learn with practically no data,
0:00 - 0:40 Intro
0:40 - 5:40 News Summary segment
5:40 News Discussion segment
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An interview with Jack Clark and Raymond Perrault about their recent paper Measurement in AI Policy: Opportunities and Challenges.
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Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week A GPT-3 bot posted comments on Reddit for a week and no one noticed , Live facial recognition is tracking kids suspected of being criminals, Many Top AI Researchers Get Financial Backing From Big Tech
0:00 - 0:40 Intro
0:40 - 5:00 News Summary segment
5:00 News Discussion segment
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An interview with Professor Matt Beane about his recent paper Working With Robots in a Post-Pandemic World, co-authored with Professor Erik Brynjolfsson.
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Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week How an AI tool for fighting hospital deaths actually worked in the real world, ExamSoft’s remote bar exams sparks privacy and facial recognition concerns, Deepfake Putin is here to warn American’s about their self-inflicted doom
0:00 - 0:40 Intro
0:40 - 5:00 News Summary segment
5:00 News Discussion segment
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Courtesy of our regular host Sharon, an except from the event celebrating a new course on GANs she teaches.
See the full event here: https://youtu.be/9d4jmPmTWmc
"To celebrate the launch of GANs Specialization, we’ve assembled a panel of GANs experts. They will discuss some of their current projects and the importance and future of GANs and also provide practical career advice for ML practitioners."
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Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week Twitter and Zoom’s algorithmic bias issues, Despite past denials, LAPD has used facial recognition software 30,000 times in last decade, records show, We’re not ready for AI, says the winner of a new $1m AI prize, How humane is the UK’s plan to introduce robot companions in care homes?, OpenAI is giving Microsoft exclusive access to its GPT-3 language model
0:00 - 0:40 Intro
0:40 - 5:00 News Summary segment
5:00 News Discussion segment
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Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week Face mask recognition has arrived - for better or worse, Google claims its AI is becoming better at recognizing breaking news and disinformation, Why kids need special protection from AI’s influence, Why Wasn’t Uber Charged in a Fatal Self-Driving Car Crash?
0:00 - 0:35 Intro
0:35 - 5:25 News Summary segment
5:25 News Discussion segment
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://www.skynettoday.com/digests/the-eighty-third
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An interview with Professors Jong Hyun Chung and Yong Suk Lee about their recent paper The Evolving Impact of Robots on Jobs.
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Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week Hope Returns to the Machine Learning Universe, California Utilities Hope Drones, AI Will Lower Risk of Future Wildfires, How to edit writing by a robot: a step-by-step guide, The Guardian’s GPT-3-generated article is everything wrong with media hype, *AI standards launched to help tackle the problem of overhyped studies, IBM says U.S. should adopt new export controls on facial recognition systems
0:00 - 0:40 Intro
0:40 - 5:00 News Summary segment
5:00 News Discussion segment
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Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week AI researchers use heartbeat detection to identify deepfake videos, This know-it-all AI learns by reading the entire web nonstop, Google Offers to Help Others With the Tricky Ethics of AI, Robotics, AI, and Cloud Computing Combine to Supercharge Chemical and Drug Synthesis
0:00 - 0:40 Intro
0:40 - 4:00 News Summary segment
4:00 News Discussion segment
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Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week "Hulu deepfaked its new ad. It won’t be the last.", "Memers are making deepfakes, and things are getting weird" , "The term ‘ethical AI’ is finally starting to mean something", and "The utopian promise and dystopian potential of real-time detection of police, fire, and medical emergencies".
Intro: 0:00 - 0:45
News Summary segment: 0:45 - 6:45
News Discussion segment: 6:45 onward
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://www.skynettoday.com/digests/the-eightieth
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An interview with Professor Paul Brewer and PhD Students James Bingaman and Ashely Paintsil about their new survey paper "Media Messages and U.S. Public Opinion about Artificial Intelligence" about what the general U.S. public thinks about AI, and how popular media and interaction with new technology shapes it.
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An interview with Professors Julian Togelius and Sebastian Risi about their new survey paper "Increasing generality in machine learning through procedural content generation", their work at modl.ai, and more!
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Our latest roundup of last week's big AI news!
Plus, Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss the news and offer their thoughts.
We are trying out this combination of formats for the first time - please fill out the listener survey to let us know what you think about it: bit.ly/ltasurvey
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Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories.
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An interview with Stanford AI Lab PhDs Abigal See and Ashwin Paranjape about their involvement with the Alexa Prize Challenge and what it took to enable their chatbot Chirpy Cardinal to take second place.
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Our thirteenth audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news!
This week, we look at the ICE/Clearview AI contract, the growth of race detection software, and how AI is being used to assign students final grades and reopen schools.
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Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories, relating to AI's struggles in 2020, Chinese AI surveillance, tools to fight facial recognition, and more!
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Our twelfth audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news!
This week, we look at Microsoft's reasons for the TikTok acquisition, how depefakes are becoming cheaper, AI's struggle to adapt to 2020, and how AI is learning when to defer to humans.
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Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories, relating to Black Lives Matter, the disaster that was Genderify, possible ways jobs will be lost, and Weird A.I. Yankovic.
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Our eleventh audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news!
This week, we look at two recent stories on facial recognition, why Natural Language Processing researchers might be chasing the wrong goal, and a clickbait headline accompanying an exciting story about automated code generation.
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Our tenth audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news!
This week, we look at how AI might threaten fashion models' jobs, how AI is being used to predict job hopping, Facebook's simulations of bad user behavior, and A.I. generated parody songs.
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Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories.
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An interview with the Founder of the Montreal AI Ethics Institute Abhishek Gupta, as well as fellow AI Ethics researchers Camylle Lanteigne, Muriam Fancy, Ryan Khurana, about their recent State of AI Ethics Report.
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Our ninth audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news!
This week, we look at the Pentagon's Joint AI Center, recent research on the computational limits of deep learning, how AI is being used to decide when to discharge patients, and a recent report on robust AI research.
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Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories.
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A chat among several of the founders of online AI-focused magazine The Gradient (thegradient.pub) about its origins and purpose.
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Our eighth audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news!
This week, we look at the rise of AI therapy bots, the fight against facial recognition in Detroit, a paper from DeepMind and Oxford on decolonialism in AI, and how deepfakes are being used for corporate training.
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Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories.
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Our seventh audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news!
This week, we look at how an HBO documentary is using deepfake technology for good, a new system to measure AI's carbon impact, a follow-up from last week's story on Timnit Gebru and Yann LeCun, and finally the push for a national AI research cloud.
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Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories.
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Our sixth audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news!
This week, we look at how one deep learning pioneer still seems to have something to learn about AI bias, how facial recognition led to a wrongful arrest and the facial recognition ban being pushed by Democratic lawmakers, and how Trump's Visa freeze could affect the US's AI prospects.
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Stanford AI Lab PhD Andrey Kurenkov interviews Tim Hwang, Research Fellow at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) about his new report “Shaping the Terrain of AI Competition” and more.
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Our fifth audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news!
This week, we look at more news from Boston Dynamics, a new MIT startup that wants to help you do deep learning on your CPU, recent changes at NeurIPS, and Baidu's departure from the Partnership on AI.
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Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories.
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Our fourth audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news!
This week, we look at recent progress in curtailing the development of facial recognition technology, a recent call for attention to racism in academia, and recent news from OpenAI and Boston Dynamics.
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Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories.
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Our third audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news!
This week, we look at the how the police are using surveillance against civil rights protesters, AI for productivity, and recent calls from AI researchers for regulation and cooperation.
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Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories.
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Our second audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news!
This week, we look at the ACLU's lawsuit against Clearview AI, an international AI group among the G7, how small businesses might begin to use automation, and Microsoft's push towards replacing journalists with AI.
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Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories.
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Our first audio round up of last week's noteworthy AI news!
This week, a discussion of peoples' awareness of self driving technology, surveillance by iFlyTek and Clear, and Nvidia's new recreation of Pacman.
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Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories.
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Stanford AI Lab PhD Andrey Kurenkov interviews Professor James Zou and Doctor Irena Fisher-Hwang about their new class CS472: Data Science and AI for COVID-19. See more here: https://sites.google.com/view/data-science-covid-19
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Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories.
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Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories.
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Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories.
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Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories.
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Stanford AI Lab PhD Sharon Zhou interviews Professor Matthew Lungren about the efforts to leverage AI to help with the coronavirus crisis, the promise for sharing more medical data as part of those efforts, and more.
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Tired of constantly hearing about COVID-19? So are Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou, who mostly discuss non virus related stories this week... and then some virus related stories.
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Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou cover news about bias in commercial voice recognition systems, a debate about the future of AI, and more on what covid 19 shows us about robotics.
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Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou cover more news stories related to how AI helps tackle the coronavirus crisis and how research is changing.
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Stanford AI Lab PhDs discuss news stories related to how AI helps tackle the coronavirus crisis, and more on mass surveillance.
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Hello World!
Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss news stories related to mass-deployment of facial recognition and responsible AI research.
By the way, we get better in future episodes, we promise!
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