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Oct 28, 2021 • 31min

Rephrase.ai, MuJoCo, AI in Audacity, Illegal AI Porn Unblurring, Bigoted AI Ethics Model

Our 75th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Check our text version of this news roundup over at lastweekin.ai. This week: This startup is creating personalized deepfakes for corporations  Inside Mailchimp’s push to bring AI to content marketing  What MuJoCo’s acquisition means for DeepMind’s AI & robotics research Yann LeCun Team Challenges Current Beliefs on Interpolation and Extrapolation Regarding DL Model Generalization Performance  Deep Learning Tools for Audacity A Harvard freshman made a social networking app called 'The FaceTag.' It's sparked a debate about the ethics of facial recognition. Man Arrested for Unblurring Japanese Porn With AI in First Deepfake Case Scientists Built an AI to Give Ethical Advice, But It Turned Out Super Racist Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Oct 22, 2021 • 32min

Waymo‘s Taxi Struggles, Robot Surveillance in Singapore, AI against Human Trafficking

Our 74th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Check our text version of this news roundup over at lastweekin.ai. This week: Applications Waymo's self-driving taxi struggles with left turns and puddles. But it's still winning over some Arizona riders How AI can fight human trafficking  Research AI Analysis of 100,000 Climate Studies Reveals How Massive The Crisis Already Is Google Researchers Explore the Limits of Large-Scale Model Pretraining Ethics New robots patrolling for 'anti-social behaviour' causing unease in Singapore streets Singapore sends Xavier the robot to help police keep streets safe under three-week trial Are Under-Curated Hyperscale AI Datasets Worse Than The Internet Itself? Fun Dead-End SF Street Plagued With Confused Waymo Cars Trying To Turn Around ‘Every 5 Minutes’ Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Oct 8, 2021 • 30min

DeepMind‘s Rain Nowcasting, OpenAI‘s Book Summarization, Distracted Tesla Drivers, Amazon‘s $1k robot

Our 73rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Applications First AI Pathology Program Approved: Helps Detect Prostate Cancer Adobe Lightroom is getting more powerful with AI-based selection tool  Research DeepMind’s AI predicts almost exactly when and where it’s going to rain Summarizing Books with Human Feedback Ethics AI’s Islamophobia problem  MIT study finds Tesla drivers become inattentive when Autopilot is activated  Fun Amazon’s Astro Is a Mobile Alexa and Cup Holder that Costs $1k Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/136 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Sep 15, 2021 • 38min

AI for climate modeling, Deepfakes are here, Boston Dynamics in a fight

Our 72st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Article picks: Applications New Algorithm Can Identify Pre-Alzheimer's Brain Changes With Over 99% Accuracy Columbia to Launch $25 Million AI-based Climate Modeling Center Research Machine learning technique detects phishing sites based on markup visualization Stanford’s BEHAVIOR Benchmarks 100 Activities From Everyday Life for Embodied AI Ethics Deepfakes in cyberattacks aren’t coming. They’re already here. Sharing learnings from the first algorithmic bias bounty challenge Fun Could Robots From Boston Dynamics Beat Me in a Fight? iRobot’s newest Roomba uses AI to avoid dog poop Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/132 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Sep 11, 2021 • 29min

AI for lonely people, GPT-3 is toxic, Tesla investigation develops, Kiwibot

Our 71st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: Applications Always there': the AI chatbot comforting China's lonely millions AI startups claim to detect depression from speech, but the jury’s out on their accuracy Research GPT-3 mimics human love for ‘offensive’ Reddit comments, study finds  AI Researchers Introduce A Graph Neural Network Estimator for ETA Prediction at Google Maps Ethics Tesla is ordered to turn over Autopilot data to a federal safety agency. Bias persists in face detection systems from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google Fun The time a human-driven car ran over an autonomous robot  These cute electric robots may soon deliver your dinner Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/132 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Sep 3, 2021 • 30min

AI for Spreadsheets, Hospital Robots, NLP Benchmarking, AI Play

Our 70th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: Applications Google Sheets’ formula suggestions are like autofill for math More than 50 robots are working at Singapore's high-tech hospital Research Challenges and Opportunities in NLP Benchmarking Google Brain Uncovers Representation Structure Differences Between CNNs and Vision Transformers Ethics “Flying in the Dark”: Hospital AI Tools Aren’t Well Documented Toyota pauses Paralympics self-driving buses after one hits visually impaired athlete Fun Rise of the robo-drama: Young Vic creates new play using artificial intelligence Astrobee Will Find Astronauts’ Lost Socks Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/131 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Aug 27, 2021 • 40min

Tesla Bot, AI Val Kilmer, DeepMind‘s Perceiver IO, Apple‘s NeuralHash

Our 69th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: Applications Elon Musk unveils 'Tesla bot,' a humanoid robot that would be made from Tesla's self-driving AI AI gave Val Kilmer his voice back. But critics worry the technology could be misused. Research 100+ Standford Researchers Publish 200+ Page Paper on the AI Paradigm Shift Introduced by Large-Scale Models DeepMind Open-Sources Perceiver IO, A General-Purpose Deep Learning Model Architecture That Handles A Wide Range of Data and Tasks Ethics Reddit user reverse-engineers what they believe is Apple's solution to flag child sex abuse How AI-powered Tech Landed Man In Jail With Scant Evidence Fun Philip Glass on Artificial Intelligence and Art The Bouba/Kiki Effect And Sound Symbolism In CLIP Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/130 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Aug 20, 2021 • 38min

OpenAI‘s Codex Update, Boston Dynamics Parkour, Twitter AI Bias

Our 68th Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: publications OpenAI can translate English into code with its new  Codex Cattle-ist for the Future: Plainsight Revolutionizes Livestock Management with AI Research Without Code for DeepMind’s Protein AI, This Lab Wrote Its Own Artificial Intelligence may diagnose dementia in a day Ethics Twitter AI bias contest shows beauty filters hoodwink the algorithm U.S. Will Investigate Tesla’s Autopilot System Over Crashes With Emergency Vehicles Fun Appreciating the Poetic Misunderstandings of A.I. Art Boston Dynamics' robots can parkour better than you Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/129 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Aug 16, 2021 • 32min

Fabricated AI Research, AI Phishing Emails, AI Package Theft Detection

Our 67th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: A new generation of AI-powered robots is taking over warehouses  With a nudge from AI, ketamine emerges as a potential rare disease treatment Tortured phrases' give away fabricated research papers Fast, Efficient Neural Networks Copy Dragonfly Brains AI Wrote Better Phishing Emails Than Humans in a Recent Test These Algorithms Look at X-Rays' and Somehow Detect Your Race Tably, An AI-Powered Camera App, Give You A Deeper Understanding Of Your Cat's Health And Mood Man defends against package thieves using machine learning AI, flour, and very loud sirens Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/128 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Aug 11, 2021 • 24min

Malware in AI models, Algorithmic Bias Bounty, Robot Beach-Cleaners and Beehives

Our 66th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! NOTE: audio is fixed on this upload. This week: Meet BeachBot, a beach rover that uses AI to remove cigarette butts from beaches Here Is A Fully Autonomous AI-Powered Beehive That Could Save Bee Colonies Researchers demonstrate that malware can be hidden inside AI models Facebook AI Releases ‘VoxPopuli’, A Large-Scale Open Multilingual Speech Corpus For AI Translations in NLP Systems China built the world's largest facial recognition system. Now, it's getting camera-shy. Twitter announces first algorithmic bias bounty challenge Say Hello To The Tokyo Olympic Robots Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/127 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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