Our 44th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: These crowdsourced maps will show exactly where surveillance cameras are watching US commission cites ‘moral imperative’ to explore AI weapons Why the OECD wants to calculate the AI compute needs of national governments An AI saw a cropped photo of AOC. It autocompleted her wearing a bikini. 0:00 - 0:35 Intro 0:35 - 5:00 News Summary segment 5:99 News Discussion segment Find this and more in our text version of...
Feb 04, 2021•25 min•Ep. 72
Jan 20th, 2021 by Chatbot Gone Awry Starts Conversations About AI Ethics in South Korea Google Sidelines Second Artificial Intelligence Researcher This App Claims It Can Detect ‘Trustworthiness.’ It Can’t AI could make healthcare fairer--by helping us believe what patients say 0:00 - 0:35 Intro 0:35 - 5:25 News Summary segment 5:25 News Discussion segment Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/100 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod ...
Jan 28, 2021•37 min•Ep. 71
Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: Use of Clearview AI facial recognition tech spiked as law enforcement seeks to identify Capitol mob FDA issues action plan for regulating AI in medical devices Google trained a trillion-parameter AI language model AI-Powered Text From This Program Could Fool the Government 0:00 - 0:35 Intro 0:35 - 4:30 News Summary segment 4:30 News Discussion segment Find this and more in our text version of this news roundu...
Jan 21, 2021•23 min•Ep. 70
Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: This avocado armchair could be the future of AI For Its Latest Trick, OpenAI’s GPT-3 Generates Images From Text Captions Summary of AI Provisions from the National Defense Authorization Act 2021 AI algorithms detect diabetic eye disease inconsistently Research highlights from an unprecedented year at NeurIPS 0:00 - 0:35 Intro 0:35 - 4:45 News Summary segment 4:45 News Discussion segment Find this and more in ...
Jan 14, 2021•34 min•Ep. 69
Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: Google tolds its scientists to ‘strike a positive tone’ in AI research - documents Facial-Recognition Tools in Spotlight in New Jersey False Arrest Case The year deepfakes went mainstream 13 acquisitions highlight Big Tech’s AI talent grab in 2020 AI Startups Raised $9.9B in second half of 2020, a 15% Jump 0:00 - 0:40 Intro 0:40 - 4:00 News Summary segment 4:00 News Discussion segment Find this and more in ou...
Jan 07, 2021•23 min•Ep. 68
An interview with Juan Mateos-Garcia, the Director of Data Analytics at Nesta (the UK's Innovation Foundation) where he leads a team of data scientists, developers, visualisers and innovation experts who use new datasets, analytics methods and visualisation tools to inform innovation and AI policy. We focus on the recent paper A narrowing of AI research? , which he co-wrote with Joel Klinge and Konstantinos Stathoulopoulos. Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Check out coverage of simila...
Dec 12, 2020•59 min•Ep. 67
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 Kev...
Dec 10, 2020•23 min•Ep. 66
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)...
Dec 05, 2020•25 min•Ep. 65
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....
Dec 03, 2020•43 min•Ep. 64
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 (i...
Nov 28, 2020•30 min•Ep. 63
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 ...
Nov 26, 2020•31 min•Ep. 62
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 "...
Nov 19, 2020•10 min•Ep. 61
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 s...
Nov 13, 2020•29 min•Ep. 60
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)...
Nov 08, 2020•33 min•Ep. 59
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 New...
Nov 05, 2020•32 min•Ep. 58
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 rou...
Oct 29, 2020•29 min•Ep. 57
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)...
Oct 25, 2020•36 min•Ep. 56
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-e...
Oct 22, 2020•22 min•Ep. 55
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)...
Oct 20, 2020•52 min•Ep. 54
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...
Oct 15, 2020•22 min•Ep. 53
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)...
Oct 10, 2020•29 min•Ep. 52
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-ei...
Oct 08, 2020•17 min•Ep. 51
Courtesy of our regular host Sharon, an except from the event celebrating a new course on GANs she teaches. See the full event here: https://youtu.be/9d4jmPmTWmc "To celebrate the launch of GANs Specialization, we’ve assembled a panel of GANs experts. They will discuss some of their current projects and the importance and future of GANs and also provide practical career advice for ML practitioners." Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | Pocket Casts | YouTube Music: Deliberate Thought by Kevin Mac...
Oct 04, 2020•51 min•Ep. 50
Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week Twitter and Zoom’s algorithmic bias issues , Despite past denials, LAPD has used facial recognition software 30,000 times in last decade, records show , We’re not ready for AI, says the winner of a new $1m AI prize , How humane is the UK’s plan to introduce robot companions in care homes? , OpenAI is giving Microsoft exclusive access to its GPT-3 language model 0:00 - 0:40 Intro 0:40 - 5:00 News Summary segmen...
Oct 01, 2020•23 min•Ep. 49
Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week Face mask recognition has arrived - for better or worse, Google claims its AI is becoming better at recognizing breaking news and disinformation , Why kids need special protection from AI’s influence , Why Wasn’t Uber Charged in a Fatal Self-Driving Car Crash? 0:00 - 0:35 Intro 0:35 - 5:25 News Summary segment 5:25 News Discussion segment Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://www...
Sep 24, 2020•24 min•Ep. 48
An interview with Professors Jong Hyun Chung and Yong Suk Lee about their recent paper The Evolving Impact of Robots on Jobs . Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Check out coverage of similar topics at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)...
Sep 19, 2020•30 min•Ep. 47
Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week Hope Returns to the Machine Learning Universe , California Utilities Hope Drones, AI Will Lower Risk of Future Wildfires , How to edit writing by a robot: a step-by-step guide , The Guardian’s GPT-3-generated article is everything wrong with media hype , * AI standards launched to help tackle the problem of overhyped studies , IBM says U.S. should adopt new export controls on facial recognition systems 0:00 - ...
Sep 17, 2020•24 min•Ep. 46
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)...
Sep 02, 2020•38 min•Ep. 43
