AI Art and Cringe Culture

Our 108th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Outline

• (00:00) Intro
• (03:50) Using machine learning to identify undiagnosable cancers 
• (08:30) North American companies send in the robots, even as productivity slumps 
• (14:30) French tax officials use AI to spot 20,000 undeclared pools
• (15:12) AI illuminates permanently shadowed regions on the moon
• (15:40) Artificial intelligence can be used to better monitor Maine's forests 
• (16:34) Panera Bread tests artificial intelligence technology in drive-thru lanes 
• (17:45) Using AI to decode speech from brain activity
• (23:20) Robots can be used to assess children’s mental wellbeing, study suggests
• (27:50) Canadian researchers using machine learning to mitigate effects of climate change 
• (29:25) Researchers Develop ‘TiCoder’ Framework For Code Generation Using User Feedback With 90.4% Consistency To User Intent 
• (31:12) Artificial Intelligence Improves Treatment in Women with Heart Attacks 
• (31:41) MIT Researchers use Machine Learning to Expedite Research on New Battery Materials 
• (32:48) Review finds ‘paucity of robust evidence’ on impact of AI clinical outcomes 
• (36:00) France puts healthcare at heart of $1.8B AI strategy 
• (39:00) Clearview: Glasses With Facial Recognition Are Here—And The Air Force Is Buying
• (40:00) New York City AI Bias Law Charts New Territory for Employers 
• (40:37) U.S. officials order Nvidia to halt sales of top AI chips to China
• (42:00) UK Government Releases New AI Security Guidance
• (43:31) Everything Everything's AI-Derived 'Raw Data Feel' Tackles Mental Health, Conspiracy Theories
  • Everything Everything - I Want A Love Like This
• (47:05) Holly Herndon: How AI can transform your voice 
  • Holly Herndon - Eternal
• (50:17) A LinkedIn Marketing Agency Acquired an AI That Writes Mega-Cringe LinkedIn Posts
• (53:24) An AI-Generated Artwork Won First Place at a State Fair Fine Arts Competition, and Artists Are Pissed
• (57:00) Outro