#90 - AI for Algorithms, Chemical Weapons, Zelenskyy Deepfake, Border Control

Our 90th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

Outline:

• (00:00) Intro
• Applications & Business
  • (1:10) Machine Learning Reimagines the Building Blocks of Computing 
  • (5:50) Meet ElliQ, the robot who wants to keep Grandma company
  • (10:52) Lightning Round 
• Research & Advancements
  • (12:24) AI suggested 40,000 new possible chemical weapons in just six hours
  • (14:15) Meta AI’s Sparse All-MLP Model Doubles Training Efficiency Compared to Transformers
  • (16:15) Lightning Round
• Society & Ethics
  • (17:33) AI and disinformation in the Russia-Ukraine war  + Deepfake Zelenskyy surrender video is the 'first intentionally used' in Ukraine war
  • (19:28) Powered by artificial intelligence, ‘autonomous’ border towers test Democrats’ support for surveillance technology
  • (23:15) Lightning round
• Fun & Neat
  • (25:05) AI-generated utopias 
  • (26:51) Building games and apps entirely through natural language using OpenAI’s code-davinci model
• (29:15) Outro