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Jun 17, 2021 • 28min

DeepMind on General AI, Creepy Fake Humans, City Brains

Our 60th Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! On this episode, new ways to scale training, a take on RL being enough, care bots, creepy fake humans, AI for AI chips, City Brains in China, and cheaper robot dogs. This week: Microsoft’s ZeRO-Infinity Library Claims to Train 32 trillion Parameters Deep Learning Models On A Cluster of Just 32 GPUs DeepMind scientists: Reinforcement learning is enough for general AI ‘Care bots’ are on the rise and replacing human caregivers These creepy fake humans herald a new age in AI Google is using AI to design its next generation of AI chips more quickly than humans can Across China, AI ‘city brains’ are changing how the government runs This $2,700 robot dog will carry a single bottle of water for you Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/120 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Jun 10, 2021 • 25min

Is GPT-3 Dissapointing, Killer Robots (?), the AI Hall of Shame

Our 59th Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: GPT-3: a disappointing paper NYU, Facebook & CIFAR Present ‘True Few-Shot Learning’ for Language Models Whose Few-Shot Ability They Say Is Overestimated Google Ventures-backed Merlin Labs is building AI that can fly planes Self-Driving Truck Completes 950-Mile Trip 10 Hours Faster Than Human Driver King County is first in the country to ban facial recognition software Have autonomous robots started killing in war? Don't End Up on This Artificial Intelligence Hall of Shame Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/119 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Jun 4, 2021 • 39min

Blatant Academic Fraud, OpenAI's New Sibling, a Killer Drone?!

Our 58th Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: Rebel AI group raises record cash after machine learning schism OpenAI launches $100 million startup fund with Microsoft Please Commit More Blatant Academic Fraud AI Could Soon Write Code Based on Ordinary Language All together now: the most trustworthy covid-19 model is an ensemble AI Can Write Disinformation Now—and Dupe Human Readers A rogue killer drone 'hunted down' a human target without being instructed to, UN report says Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/118 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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May 28, 2021 • 35min

GPT-Neo, Wav2Vec-U, Deepfake Dubs, Michelangelo AI, History of Ethical AI at Google

Our 57 Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: GPT-3’s free alternative GPT-Neo is something to be excited about Facebook Wav2vec-U learns to recognize speech from unlabeled data Deepfake dubs could help translate film and TV without losing an actor's original performance Quizzing Michelangelo AI History of Ethical AI at Google Sharing learnings about our image cropping algorithm Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/117 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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May 25, 2021 • 54min

Janelle Shane on the Weirdness of AI

An interview with Janelle Shane, the creator of aiweirdness.com and author of 'You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How AI Works and Why It’s Making the World a Weirder Place'. Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Janelle Shane works as a research scientist in Colorado, where she makes computer-controlled holograms for studying the brain, and other light-steering devices. She is also a self-described A. I. Humorist - on aiweirdness.com, she writes about AI and the sometimes hilarious, sometimes unsettling ways that algorithms get things wrong. Her work has also been featured in the New York Times, The Atlantic, WIRED, Popular Science, and more, AND she has also given the TED talk “The danger of AI is weirder than you think” in 2019. Her book, “You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How AI Works and Why It’s Making the World a Weirder Place” uses cartoons and humorous pop-culture experiments to look inside the minds of the algorithms that run our world, making artificial intelligence and machine learning both accessible and entertaining. Check out coverage of similar topics at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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May 20, 2021 • 26min

Elon Musk's Self Driving Claims, AI Ethics at Google, Photorealistic GTA 5

This podcast discusses Google's plans to expand their AI ethics research staff, a machine learning technique used to make Grand Theft Auto look more realistic, the Pentagon's use of AI-controlled weapons, and Tesla's exaggerations about their self-driving capabilities.
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May 13, 2021 • 24min

Satellite Image Data, Moderating AI Dungeon, Consolidating Autonomous Vehicles

Our 55th Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: China makes "world's largest satellite image database" to train AI better How to stop AI from recognizing your face in selfies It Began As an AI-Fueled Dungeon Game. It Got Much Darker The autonomous vehicle world is shrinking — it’s overdue Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/114 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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May 7, 2021 • 36min

Rethinking Conferences, Chinese GPT-3, Farming Robots, Lyft's AV Sale

Our 54th Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: Rethinking large conferences Google and UC Berkeley Propose Green Strategies for Large Neural Network Training Huawei trained the Chinese-language equivalent of GPT-3 Farming Robot Kills 100,000 Weeds per Hour With Lasers Lyft sells self-driving unit to Toyota’s Woven Planet for $550M Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/114 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Apr 29, 2021 • 27min

AI Einstein, Medical Alexas, 1.4 Trillion Transistor AI Chip

Our 53drd Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: AI-driven audio cloning startup gives voice to Einstein chatbot Can Medical Alexas Make Us Healthier? AI Pinpoints Local Pollution Hotspots Using Satellite Images Cerebras’ New Monster AI Chip Adds 1.4 Trillion Transistors Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/113 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Apr 22, 2021 • 28min

Tesla Deaths, 2.6 Million DeepFakes, Europe AI Regulations

Our 52nd Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: Europe seeks to limit use of AI in society Two people killed in fiery Tesla crash with no one driving ‘No one was driving’ in Tesla crash that killed two men in Spring, Texas, report says 2.6 Million Fake Faces: AI Generated People May Be The Future Of The Metaverse, Celebrity, And Perhaps ... All Of Us Black women, AI, and overcoming historical patterns of abuse Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/112 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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