This week, we'll discuss two COVID stories, language models, and a self-driving startup. A team at the University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering developed a method to speed up vaccine analysis. Tinta Gebur received a great deal of coverage in the media over a dispute between her and Google that involved the publication of a paper on the harms of large language models. pony.ai announced on February 7th that it has raised another $100 million in an extension of its series C round. Some experts predict the pandemic will hasten the adoption of autonomous transportation technologies.
Our 46th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
0:00 - 0:30 Intro
0:30 - 5:15 News Summary segment
5:15 News Discussion segment
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/103
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)