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Last week in AI is a weekly podcast from lastweekin.ai. This week, we'll talk about some robots that are being used at Google's offices. We'll also discuss research on auto encoders and new professor joining your university. Finally, we'll be talking about ethical things with truth, talent, pathology, and facial recognition.

Our 79th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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(00:00) Intro
(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
(21:45) Outro

Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)