Our 103rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Outline:

(00:00) Intro
(01:10) Instagram is testing an AI tool that verifies your age by scanning your face
(6:15) Bunnings, Kmart and The Good Guys using facial recognition technology to crack down on theft, Choice says
(10:13) Cruise’s driverless autonomous cars start giving rides to paying passengers
(12:10) Copilot, GitHub’s AI-powered programming assistant, is now generally available
(13:30) IRS expands AI-powered bots to set up payment plans with taxpayers over the phone
(14:10) General Motors is using AI to speed up the vehicle inspection process
(14:55) Learning to Play Minecraft with Video PreTraining (VPT)
(21:10) AI Detects Autism Speech Patterns Across Different Languages
(25:15) Meta releases largest open source AI language model to date
(26:05) Google's Parti Generator Relies on 20 Billion Inputs to Create Photorealistic Images
(27:30) New hybrid machine learning forecasts lake ecosystem responses to climate change
(30:04) Cerebras Systems Sets Record for Largest AI Models Ever Trained on a Single Device
(30:05) Pentagon Unveils Plan to Make 'Responsible Military AI' More Than Just a Buzzword
(34:43) Microsoft Plans to Eliminate Face Analysis Tools in Push for ‘Responsible A.I.’
(37:40) Vitali Klitschko fake tricks Berlin mayor in video call
(38:17) China’s Surveillance State Is Growing. These Documents Reveal How.
(39:03) Earthquake tech could limit deaths. Afghanistan shows it’s not easy.
(40:00) Alexa has a new voice — your dead relative’s
(41:18) Wordalle is a guess-the-prompt game that combines Wordle and DALL-E
(43:25) The King’s Swedish: AI Rewrites the Book in Scandinavia
(45:35) Outro

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