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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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Jan 21, 2021 • 23min

Clearview AI in the Capitol, Medical AI Regulation, DeepFake Text

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)
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Jan 14, 2021 • 34min

OpenAI‘s Image Models, US‘s New Provisions for AI, NeurIPS Discussion

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)
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Jan 7, 2021 • 23min

NY‘s moratorium on facial recognition, deepfakes in 2020, and more!

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)
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Dec 12, 2020 • 59min

A narrowing of AI research? with Juan Mateos-Garcia

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)

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