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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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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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