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Dec 10, 2020 • 23min

The firing of Dr.Timnit Gebru, AlphaFold, and Unions Against AI

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)
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Dec 5, 2020 • 25min

The De-democratization of AI: Deep Learning and the Compute Divide in Artificial Intelligence Research with Nur Ahmed

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)
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Dec 3, 2020 • 43min

To PhD or not to PhD, AI Bias, Facial Recognition Ethics, GPT-3

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)
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Nov 28, 2020 • 30min

Machine Learning for Art with Google's Emil Wallner

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)
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Nov 26, 2020 • 31min

The way we train AI is fundamentally flawed, bias, the compute divide

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)
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Nov 19, 2020 • 10min

AI‘s replication crisis, reddit discussions, government-sponsored medical AI

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)
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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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