AI for COVID detection fails, GitHub's Copilot can code, GAN Theft Auto is fun

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

• What’s Going on With Amazon’s “High-Tech” Warehouse Robots?

• How Twitter hired tech's biggest critics to build ethical AI

• LinkedIn’s job-matching AI was biased. The company’s solution? More AI.

• GAN Theft Auto is a snippet of GTA 5 made by 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)