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

Last Week in AI

Nov 19, 2020•10 min•Ep. 61

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Episode description

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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