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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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Aug 2, 2021 • 16min

Our 100th episode! A look back with hosts Andrey, Sharon, and Daniel

Our 100th episode! Given this event, we have a short discussion among the hosts of the podcasts. Hope you enjoy! And please fill out this survey Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Jul 28, 2021 • 36min

AI in the US State and Federal Governments with the hosts of the AI Today Podcast

Check out this special crossover episode with the AI Today podcast, the hosts of which Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer discuss pressing topics around artificial intelligence, interview guests and experts on the subject, and cut through the hype around AI. For this crossover episode, we thought it’d be fun to chat about some of the topics that have recently been covered on the AI Today podcast, in particular what has been happening with AI in government. Specifically, we discuss: Challenges in Federal AI Adoption Interview with Justin Marsico, Chief Data Officer at the Bureau Of The Fiscal Service AI Center of Excellence in the US Federal Government - Interview with Neil Chaudhry, GSA Data and AI at the State level, interview with Joy Bonaguro, CDO State of California Data and AI in the state of North Dakota, Interview with Dorman Bazzell, CDO of North Dakota Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Jul 26, 2021 • 25min

DeepMind‘s AlphaFold 2, Voice Cloning, Facial Recognition in Retail Stores

Our 65th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: The future of self-driving? Maybe less like Elon Musk and more like Domino's pizza robots DeepMind's AI for protein structure is coming to the masses Reasoning with Language Models and Knowledge Graphs for Question Answering AI now enables robots to adapt rapidly to changing real world conditions Voice clone of Anthony Bourdain prompts synthetic media ethics questions Retail stores are packed with unchecked facial recognition, civil rights organizations say Google CEO Still Insists AI Revolution Bigger Than Invention of Fire Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/125 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Jul 21, 2021 • 43min

Reflecting on AI news in 2021 (so far) with the host of the Towards Data Science Podcast

2021 has been a bit less crazy than 2020 so far, but plenty of notable stuff has already happened. So, we decided to partner with our friends over at the Towards Data Science podcast, hosted by co-founder of ShapestMinds Jeremie Harris. Specifically, we discuss: This avocado armchair could be the future of AI, For Its Latest Trick Facial-Recognition Tools in Spotlight in New Jersey False Arrest Case New' Nirvana Song Created 27 Years After Kurt Cobain's Death Via AI Software As well as the general trends these stories represent. Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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