Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week AI researchers use heartbeat detection to identify deepfake videos , This know-it-all AI learns by reading the entire web nonstop , Google Offers to Help Others With the Tricky Ethics of AI , Robotics, AI, and Cloud Computing Combine to Supercharge Chemical and Drug Synthesis 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 roun...
Sep 10, 2020•20 min•Ep. 45
Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week " Hulu deepfaked its new ad. It won’t be the last. ", " Memers are making deepfakes, and things are getting weird " , " The term ‘ethical AI’ is finally starting to mean something ", and " The utopian promise and dystopian potential of real-time detection of police, fire, and medical emergencies ". Intro: 0:00 - 0:45 News Summary segment: 0:45 - 6:45 News Discussion segment: 6:45 onward Find this and more in o...
Sep 04, 2020•29 min•Ep. 44
An interview with Professor Paul Brewer and PhD Students James Bingaman and Ashely Paintsil about their new survey paper " Media Messages and U.S. Public Opinion about Artificial Intelligence " about what the general U.S. public thinks about AI, and how popular media and interaction with new technology shapes it. Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Check out coverage of similar topics at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at h...
Sep 02, 2020•38 min•Ep. 43
An interview with Professors Julian Togelius and Sebastian Risi about their new survey paper "Increasing generality in machine learning through procedural content generation", their work at modl.ai, and more! Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Check out coverage of similar topics at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Aug 29, 2020•48 min•Ep. 42
Our latest roundup of last week's big AI news! Plus, Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss the news and offer their thoughts. We are trying out this combination of formats for the first time - please fill out the listener survey to let us know what you think about it: bit.ly/ltasurvey Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and Californ...
Aug 26, 2020•27 min•Ep. 41
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) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Aug 22, 2020•30 min•Ep. 40
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) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Aug 20, 2020•37 min•Ep. 39
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) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Aug 16, 2020•6 min•Ep. 38
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) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Aug 14, 2020•30 min•Ep. 37
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 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and Californ...
Aug 09, 2020•6 min•Ep. 36
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) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Aug 07, 2020•27 min•Ep. 35
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 See Privacy Pol...
Aug 02, 2020•6 min•Ep. 34
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 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and Califor...
Jul 26, 2020•6 min•Ep. 33
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) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Jul 26, 2020•34 min•Ep. 32
An interview with the Founder of the Montreal AI Ethics Institute Abhishek Gupta, as well as fellow AI Ethics researchers Camylle Lanteigne, Muriam Fancy, Ryan Khurana, about their recent State of AI Ethics Report . Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Check out coverage of similar topics at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-...
Jul 24, 2020•44 min•Ep. 31
Our ninth audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news! This week, we look at the Pentagon's Joint AI Center, recent research on the computational limits of deep learning, how AI is being used to decide when to discharge patients, and a recent report on robust AI research. 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 See Privacy Policy at https://...
Jul 20, 2020•6 min•Ep. 30
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) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensea See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Jul 19, 2020•32 min•Ep. 29
A chat among several of the founders of online AI-focused magazine The Gradient (thegradient.pub) about its origins and purpose. Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Check out coverage of similar topics at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Jul 16, 2020•35 min•Ep. 28
Our eighth audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news! This week, we look at the rise of AI therapy bots, the fight against facial recognition in Detroit, a paper from DeepMind and Oxford on decolonialism in AI, and how deepfakes are being used for corporate training. 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 See Privacy Policy at https://art...
Jul 12, 2020•6 min•Ep. 27
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) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensea See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Jul 10, 2020•22 min•Ep. 26
Our seventh audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news! This week, we look at how an HBO documentary is using deepfake technology for good, a new system to measure AI's carbon impact, a follow-up from last week's story on Timnit Gebru and Yann LeCun, and finally the push for a national AI research cloud. 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 Lice...
Jul 05, 2020•5 min•Ep. 25
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) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Jul 04, 2020•28 min•Ep. 24
Our sixth audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news! This week, we look at how one deep learning pioneer still seems to have something to learn about AI bias, how facial recognition led to a wrongful arrest and the facial recognition ban being pushed by Democratic lawmakers, and how Trump's Visa freeze could affect the US's AI prospects. Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creati...
Jun 28, 2020•5 min•Ep. 23
Stanford AI Lab PhD Andrey Kurenkov interviews Tim Hwang, Research Fellow at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) about his new report “Shaping the Terrain of AI Competition” and more. Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Check out coverage of similar topics at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Pri...
Jun 25, 2020•46 min•Ep. 22
Our fifth audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news! This week, we look at more news from Boston Dynamics, a new MIT startup that wants to help you do deep learning on your CPU, recent changes at NeurIPS, and Baidu's departure from the Partnership on AI. 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 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privac...
Jun 21, 2020•4 min•Ep. 21
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) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Jun 19, 2020•15 min•Ep. 20
Our fourth audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news! This week, we look at recent progress in curtailing the development of facial recognition technology, a recent call for attention to racism in academia, and recent news from OpenAI and Boston Dynamics. 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 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/priva...
Jun 14, 2020•4 min•Ep. 18
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) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Jun 14, 2020•24 min•Ep. 19
Our third audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news! This week, we look at the how the police are using surveillance against civil rights protesters, AI for productivity, and recent calls from AI researchers for regulation and cooperation. 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 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and Californi...
Jun 07, 2020•4 min•Ep. 16
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) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Jun 07, 2020•23 min•Ep. 17
