Last Week in AI cover image

Last Week in AI

Latest episodes

undefined
Aug 22, 2020 • 30min

AI Setting Grades, ICE Pays Clearview, and Much More

Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories. Please fill out the listener survey: bit.ly/ltasurvey Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
undefined
Aug 20, 2020 • 37min

The Alexa Prize Challenge with Stanford's Abigail See and Ashwin Paranjape

An interview with Stanford AI Lab PhDs Abigal See and Ashwin Paranjape about their involvement with the Alexa Prize Challenge and what it took to enable their chatbot Chirpy Cardinal to take second place. Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Check out coverage of similar topics at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
undefined
Aug 16, 2020 • 6min

Mini Episode: ICE/Clearview, Race Detection and Schools

Our thirteenth audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news! This week, we look at the ICE/Clearview AI contract, the growth of race detection software, and how AI is being used to assign students final grades and reopen schools. Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com)
undefined
Aug 14, 2020 • 30min

2020, China, Face Recognition, and DeepFakes

Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories, relating to AI's struggles in 2020, Chinese AI surveillance, tools to fight facial recognition, and more! Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
undefined
Aug 9, 2020 • 6min

Mini Episode: TikTok, Cheap Deepfakes, AI in 2020, and Deference

Our twelfth audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news! This week, we look at Microsoft's reasons for the TikTok acquisition, how depefakes are becoming cheaper, AI's struggle to adapt to 2020, and how AI is learning when to defer to humans.  Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
undefined
Aug 7, 2020 • 27min

BLM, Genderify, Jobs, and AI Parody

Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories, relating to Black Lives Matter, the disaster that was Genderify, possible ways jobs will be lost, and Weird A.I. Yankovic. Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
undefined
Aug 2, 2020 • 6min

Mini Episode: Two Facial Recognition Stories, A Reckoning for NLP, and ”Self-Programming Computers

Our eleventh audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news! This week, we look at two recent stories on facial recognition, why Natural Language Processing researchers might be chasing the wrong goal, and a clickbait headline accompanying an exciting story about automated code generation. Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
undefined
Jul 26, 2020 • 6min

Mini Episode: AI Fashion Models, AI for Job Hopping, Facebook Simulations, and Weird A.I. Yankovic

Our tenth audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news! This week, we look at how AI might threaten fashion models' jobs, how AI is being used to predict job hopping, Facebook's simulations of bad user behavior, and A.I. generated parody songs.  Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
undefined
Jul 26, 2020 • 34min

GPT-3, Limits of Deep Learning, Deepfakes in the Real World

Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories.   Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com   Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
undefined
Jul 24, 2020 • 44min

On the State of AI Ethics Report with its authors

Guests Abhishek Gupta, Camylle Lanteigne, Muriam Fancy, and Ryan Khurana discuss their State of AI Ethics Report, exploring biases in NLP models, troubling trends in AI ethics, lack of transparency in applicant screening, addressing inequality with AI, and the importance of understanding AI security and overcoming misconceptions.

Get the Snipd
podcast app

Unlock the knowledge in podcasts with the podcast player of the future.
App store bannerPlay store banner

AI-powered
podcast player

Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features

Discover
highlights

Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode

Save any
moment

Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways

Share
& Export

Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more

AI-powered
podcast player

Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features

Discover
highlights

Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode