Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: Use of Clearview AI facial recognition tech spiked as law enforcement seeks to identify Capitol mob FDA issues action plan for regulating AI in medical devices Google trained a trillion-parameter AI language model AI-Powered Text From This Program Could Fool the Government 0:00 - 0:35 Intro 0:35 - 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/99 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: This avocado armchair could be the future of AI For Its Latest Trick, OpenAI’s GPT-3 Generates Images From Text Captions Summary of AI Provisions from the National Defense Authorization Act 2021 AI algorithms detect diabetic eye disease inconsistently Research highlights from an unprecedented year at NeurIPS 0:00 - 0:35 Intro 0:35 - 4:45 News Summary segment 4:45 News Discussion segment Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/98 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: Google tolds its scientists to ‘strike a positive tone’ in AI research - documents Facial-Recognition Tools in Spotlight in New Jersey False Arrest Case The year deepfakes went mainstream 13 acquisitions highlight Big Tech’s AI talent grab in 2020 AI Startups Raised $9.9B in second half of 2020, a 15% Jump 0:00 - 0:40 Intro 0:40 - 4:00 News Summary segment 4:00 News Discussion segment Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/94 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

An interview with Juan Mateos-Garcia, the Director of Data Analytics at Nesta (the UK's Innovation Foundation) where he leads a team of data scientists, developers, visualisers and innovation experts who use new datasets, analytics methods and visualisation tools to inform innovation and AI policy. We focus on the recent paper A narrowing of AI research?, which he co-wrote with Joel Klinge and Konstantinos Stathoulopoulos. Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Check out coverage of similar topics at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: Google Researcher Says She Was Fired Over Paper Highlighting Bias in A.I. AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology Labor Unions Work to Find Ways to Bargain With AI's Black Box 0:00 - 0:40 Intro 0:40 - 4:40 News Summary segment 4:40 News Discussion segment Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/94 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

An interview with Nur Ahmed, a Strategy PhD candidate at Ivey Business School, Western University, Canada and a Research Fellow at the ScotiaBank Digital Banking Lab about The De-democratization of AI: Deep Learning and the Compute Divide in Artificial Intelligence Research”. Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Check out coverage of similar topics at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: Why you shouldn’t get your Ph.D. Why you should get your PhD     Can We Make Our Robots Less Biased Than We Are?     How AI bots and voice assistants reinforce gender bias     Training AI algorithms on mostly smiling faces reduces accuracy and introduces bias, according to research Facial-recognition research needs an ethical reckoning I asked GPT-3 for the question to “42”. I didn’t like its answer and neither will you. Meet GPT-3. It Has Learned to Code (and Blog and Argue). 0:00 - 0:40 Intro 0:40 - 5:00 News Summary segment 5:00 News Discussion segment Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/93 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

An interview with Emil Wallner, the creator of mlart.co . Emil is an internet-educated, independent machine learning researcher, and resident at the Google Arts & Culture Lab. As a resident at Google he is using machine learning to explore art and culture. Part-time, he applies machine learning to logical tasks such as programming and mathematics. Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Check out coverage of similar topics at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: The way we train AI is fundamentally flawed Facebook’s improved AI isn’t preventing harmful content from spreading When AI Sees a Man, It Thinks ‘Official.’ A Woman? ‘Smile’ AI research finds a ‘compute divide’ concentrates power and accelerates inequality in the era of deep learning 0:00 - 0:40 Intro 0:40 - 4:20 News Summary segment 4:20 News Discussion segment Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/92 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: AI is wrestling with a replication crisis The US Government Will Pay Doctors to Use These AI Algorithms An ICLR submission is given a Clear Rejection (Score: 3) rating because the benchmark it proposed requires MuJoCo, a commercial software package, thus making RL research less accessible for underrepresented groups. What do you think? How do you find the motivation to keep doing ML? Is there a ML community "blind eye" toward the negative impact of FAANG recommendation algorithms on global society? 0:00 - 1:00 Intro 1:00 - 5:00 News Summary segment 5:00 News Discussion segment Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/last-week-in-ai-91 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)