#104 - Cruise Outages, Robots for Forestry, BigScience’s BLOOM, EU AI Act

Our 104th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

Note: there was a delay in editing, so this news is from two weeks ago.

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Outline:

• (00:00) Intro
• (01:10) Cruise’s Robot Car Outages Are Jamming Up San Francisco
• (05:00) Japan's forestry industry tests robots to address labor shortage
• (07:12) FIFA will track players’ bodies using AI to make offside calls at 2022 World Cup 
• (08:30) Words matter: AI can predict salaries based on the text of online job postings  
• (09:12) Photographer Successfully Uses Dall-E 2 AI to Edit his Photos 
• (09:10) Google engineer identifies anonymous faces in WWII photos with AI facial recognition 
• (10:00)Google AI Introduces Minerva: A Natural Language Processing (NLP) Model That Solves Mathematical Questions
• (13:16) A year in the making, BigScience’s AI language model is finally available
• (15:55) Meta open sources early-stage AI translation tool that works across 200 languages 
• (16:18) Computer scientists' interactive program aids motion planning for environments with obstacles 
• (16:48)Microsoft AI Researchers Open-Source ‘GODEL’: A Large Scale Pre-Trained Language Model For Dialog 
• (17:35) Fake Friends and the Real Threat of AI-Generated Influencers
• (22:05) The Fight Over Which Uses of AI Europe Should Outlaw
• (25:10) Waymo, UPS, others pressure Gov. Newsom to allow autonomous trucking in California 
• (26:10) More and more CS students are interested in AI – and there aren't enough lecturers 
• (27:03) US safety regulators open special investigation into Cruise AV crash 
• (27:46) People who regularly talk to AI chatbots often start to believe they're sentient, says CEO 
• (29:10) Experiments & Explorations: Robots as Musical Instruments
• (31:17) Cute desktop robot designed to keep armchair engineers engaged
• (33:33) Outro