AI Innovations and Ethical Implications

Our 61st 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.

Check out our interview with the creator of AI Weirdness (that we discuss as our last article) here:
https://www.letstalkai.show/e/ai-weirdness-interview/

This week:

• Harnessing the Wild Power of AI Image Generation

• The Efforts to Make Text-Based AI Less Racist and Terrible

• AI Could Spot Wildfires Faster Than Humans

• Tech Companies Are Training AI to Read Your Lips

• The False Comfort of Human Oversight as an Antidote to A.I. Harm

• China's tech workers pushed to limits by surveillance software

• Fun Facts about Fun Guys

Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/121

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