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Apr 16, 2021 • 36min

AI Nirvana Song, Facebook Fairness Dataset, No-Code AI

Our 51st Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: Shedding light on fairness in AI with a new data set Government audit of AI with ties to white supremacy finds no AI Companies are racing to bring A.I. to the masses with no code software New' Nirvana Song Created 27 Years After Kurt Cobain's Death Via AI Software Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/111 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Apr 12, 2021 • 59min

The Pioneers of Modern AI with Cade Metz, author of "Genius Makers"

An interview with Cade Metz, a New York Times reporter covering artificial intelligence, driverless cars, robotics, virtual reality, and other emerging areas. Previously, he was a senior staff writer with Wired magazine and the U.S. editor of The Register, one of Britain’s leading science and technology news sites. His first book, "Genius Makers", tells the stories of the The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World. Get the book: http://bit.ly/GeniusMakers​ Follow Cade on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CadeMetz/​ And on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cademetz/ Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Check out coverage of similar topics at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Apr 11, 2021 • 32min

Boston Dynamics, DeepFake Amazon Workers, Systematic Labeling Errors

Our 50th Last Week in AI episode! With some exciting news and our usual news coverage. Enjoy our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: Google AI Research Manager Quits After Two Ousted From Group Robots of the future at Boston Dynamics Silicon Valley leaders think AI will fund cash handouts Deepfake Amazon workers sowing confusion on twitter MIT study finds systematic labeling errors in popular AI benchmark datasets Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/110 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Mar 11, 2021 • 34min

AI Growth, OpenAI's Smart Neurons, Disease Sniffing AI

Our 49th Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: The 2021 AI Index: Major Growth Despite the Pandemic Multimodal Neurons in Artificial Neural Networks Meet the AI algorithms that judge how beautiful you are AI system can sniff out diseases as well as dogs do Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/106 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Mar 9, 2021 • 25min

GPT-3 NPCs, Rebel AI Startups, A Cute AI Book

Our 48th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: This OpenAI GPT-3 Powered Demo Is A Glimpse of NPCs In The Future Band of AI startups launch ‘rebel alliance’ for interoperability An AI is training counselors to deal with teens in crisis This cute book explains AI to children, without scary Terminators Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/105 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Feb 26, 2021 • 27min

More Unethical AI Research, More Google Drama, More Clearview AI

Our 47th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: The AI Research Paper Was Real. The "Coauthor" Wasn't Clearview AI’s plan for invasive facial recognition is worse than you think   This AI-powered gadget could completely disrupt the ridiculous hearing aid market Google reshuffles AI team leadership after researcher’s controversial departure Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/104 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Feb 18, 2021 • 24min

AI Against COVID 19, Regulating DeepFake Porn, the State of Self Driving Cars

Our 46th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: Georgia Startup Races to Complete AI-powered Voice Screening Tool to Crush COVID-19 New AI tool can thwart coronavirus mutations   Deepfake porn is ruining women’s lives. Now the law may finally end it.    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)
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Feb 11, 2021 • 25min

Facial Recognition and Privacy, Amazon AI Cameras, AI in Health Care

Our 45th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: This is how we lost control of our faces Here’s a Way to Learn if Facial Recognition Systems Used Your Photos Amazon faces spying claims over AI cameras in vans AI in health care creates unique data challenges 0:00 - 0:30 Intro 0:30 - 4:30 News Summary segment 4:30 News Discussion segment Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/101 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Feb 4, 2021 • 25min

Detecting Surveillance, Autonomous Weapons, National AI Compute Needs

Our 44th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: These crowdsourced maps will show exactly where surveillance cameras are watching US commission cites ‘moral imperative’ to explore AI weapons Why the OECD wants to calculate the AI compute needs of national governments An AI saw a cropped photo of AOC. It autocompleted her wearing a bikini. 0:00 - 0:35 Intro 0:35 - 5:00 News Summary segment 5:99 News Discussion segment Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/101 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Jan 28, 2021 • 37min

Bad Uses of AI, Google and Margaret Mitchell, AI for Fairer Healthcare

Jan 20th, 2021 by Chatbot Gone Awry Starts Conversations About AI Ethics in South Korea Google Sidelines Second Artificial Intelligence Researcher This App Claims It Can Detect ‘Trustworthiness.’ It Can’t AI could make healthcare fairer--by helping us believe what patients say 0:00 - 0:35 Intro 0:35 - 5:25 News Summary segment 5:25 News Discussion segment Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/100 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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