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Nov 13, 2020 • 29min

Geoff Hinton‘s Hot Take, Robots in Walmart and Art, Confidence in AI for Healthcare

Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: AI pioneer Geoff Hinton: “Deep learning is going to be able to do everything” Walmart Scraps Plan to Have Robots Scan Shelves 2020 AI survey: Confidence in artificial intelligence expands as health industry leaders project faster return on investment Artist Sougwen Chung wanted collaborators. So she designed and built her own AI robots. 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:  skynettoday.com/digests/the-ninetieth Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Nov 8, 2020 • 33min

OpenAI's "Scaling Laws for Autoregressive Generative Modeling"

An interview with Tom Henighan, a member of the technical staff at OpenAI working on the safety team, about the recent paper “Scaling Laws for Autoregressive Generative Modeling” that he co-authored with many others at OpenAI. 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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Nov 5, 2020 • 32min

Yann LeCun on GPT-3, New Google Projects, Inequality, GPT-3 on Hacker News

NOTE: audio for andrey is a bit rough this week, sorry! Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: The “Godfather of AI” Just Trashed GPT-3 AI agreement to enhance environmental monitoring, weather prediction Mayo Clinic, Google Focus on AI Effort for Cancer Care Inequality grows in AI research How I used GPT-3 to hit Hacker News front page 5 times in 3 weeks I Asked AI to Write This Post for Me. Here Are the Results. 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://www.skynettoday.com/digests/the-eighty-ninth Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Oct 29, 2020 • 29min

DeepNude Bot, Tesla Full Self Driving, Google AI US-Mexico Border

Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week Automating Image Abuse: deepfake bots on Telegram, Activists Turn Facial Recognition Tools Against the Police, Tesla is putting ‘self driving’ in the hands of drivers amid criticism the tech is not ready, Google AI tech will be used for virtual border wall, CBP contract shows 0:00 - 0:40 Intro 0:40 - 5:40 News Summary segment 5:40 News Discussion segment Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://www.skynettoday.com/digests/the-eighty-eighth Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Oct 25, 2020 • 36min

The Top Myths About AI

An interview with Daniel Leufer and Alexa Steinbrück about their project AIMyths.org. 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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Oct 22, 2020 • 22min

Accessible AI, Partnership on AI, Dataset Compression, Military AI

Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week Microsoft and partners aim to shrink the ‘data desert’ limiting accessible AI, Access Now resigns from Partnership on AI due to lack of change among tech companies, A radical new technique lets AI learn with practically no data, 0:00 - 0:40 Intro 0:40 - 5:40 News Summary segment 5:40 News Discussion segment Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://www.skynettoday.com/digests/the-eighty-seventh Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Oct 20, 2020 • 52min

Measurement in AI Policy: Opportunities and Challenges

An interview with Jack Clark and Raymond Perrault about their recent paper Measurement in AI Policy: Opportunities and Challenges. 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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Oct 15, 2020 • 22min

GPT-3 on reddit, Facial Recognition in Argentina, Stats on Big Tech Financing Academics

Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week A GPT-3 bot posted comments on Reddit for a week and no one noticed , Live facial recognition is tracking kids suspected of being criminals, Many Top AI Researchers Get Financial Backing From Big Tech 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://www.skynettoday.com/digests/the-eighty-sixth Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Oct 10, 2020 • 29min

Working With Robots in a Post-Pandemic World

An interview with Professor Matt Beane about his recent paper Working With Robots in a Post-Pandemic World, co-authored with Professor Erik Brynjolfsson. 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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Oct 8, 2020 • 17min

DeepFake Dictators, AI Sepsis Watch, Biased Exam Monitoring

Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week  How an AI tool for fighting hospital deaths actually worked in the real world, ExamSoft’s remote bar exams sparks privacy and facial recognition concerns, Deepfake Putin is here to warn American’s about their self-inflicted doom 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://www.skynettoday.com/digests/the-eighty-fifth Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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