Our 118th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Check out Jeremie's new book Quantum Physics Made Me Do It Read out our text newsletter at https://lastweekin.ai/ Stories this week: Applications & Business Anthropic’s $5B, 4-year plan to take on OpenAI Doctors are drowning in paperwork. Some companies claim AI can help Lighting Round Google reveals its newest A.I. supercomputer, says it beats Nvidia Elon Musk is moving forward with a new generative-AI project at Twitte...
Apr 14, 2023•2 hr 43 min•Ep. 156
Our 117th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Check out Jeremie's new book Quantum Physics Made Me Do It Read out our text newsletter at https://lastweekin.ai/ Stories this week: Applications & Business Google's Shuffles Assistant Leadership to Focus on Bard AI Alphabet’s Google and DeepMind Pause Grudges, Join Forces to Chase OpenAI February 2023 Robotics Investments Total $620 Million With Human Metalworkers Hard to Come By, Robotic Blacksmiths Step Up Lighting Ro...
Apr 07, 2023•2 hr 37 min•Ep. 155
Our 116th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Check out our text newsletter at https://lastweekin.ai/ Stories this week: Applications & Business OpenAI is massively expanding ChatGPT’s capabilities to let it browse the web and more NVIDIA's big AI moment is here Lighting Round Former head of Google China joins ChatGPT frenzy by starting own venture Cerebras Systems Releases Seven New GPT Models Trained on CS-2 Wafer-Scale Systems Generative AI set to affect 300 mill...
Mar 31, 2023•2 hr 39 min•Ep. 154
Our 115th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Check out our text newsletter at https://lastweekin.ai/ Stories this week: Applications & Business GPT-4 GPT-4 is bigger and better than ChatGPT—but OpenAI won’t say why GPT-4’s new capabilities power a ‘virtual volunteer’ for the visually impaired Google opens early access to its ChatGPT rival Bard — here are our first impressions Lighting Round Confirmed: the new Bing runs on OpenAI’s GPT-4 Microsoft and Google Unveil ...
Mar 26, 2023•2 hr 42 min•Ep. 153
Our 114th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Check out our text newsletter at https://lastweekin.ai/ Stories this week: Applications & Business LLM/ChatGPT roundup RadioGPT brings AI to the airwaves Salesforce to add ChatGPT to Slack as part of OpenAI partnership Microsoft integrates AI behind ChatGPT to more developer tools Snapchat launches an AI chatbot powered by OpenAI’s GPT technology Meet DuckAssist, DuckDuckGo's New AI Feature Shortwave email app introduces...
Mar 10, 2023•2 hr 34 min•Ep. 152
Our 113th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Check out our text newsletter at https://lastweekin.ai/ Stories this week: Applications & Business Meet the $10,000 Nvidia chip powering the race for A.I. Generative AI Is Coming For the Lawyers Vicarious Surgical cuts 14% of staff Alphabet Layoffs Hit Trash-Sorting Robots Spectrum uses generative AI to create TV commercials Spotify’s new AI-powered DJ will build you a custom playlist and talk over the top of it Amazon’s...
Mar 04, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 151
Our 112th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Stories this week: Applications & Business Microsoft's Bing AI Now Threatening Users Who Provoke It Audiobook Narrators Fear Apple Used Their Voices to Train AI Bing’s A.I. Chat: ‘I Want to Be Alive. 😈 Opera’s building ChatGPT into its sidebar Exclusive: Microsoft's Bing plans AI ads in early pitch to advertisers GitHub Copilot update stops AI model from revealing secrets Roblox is working on generative AI tools Researc...
Feb 26, 2023•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 150
Our 111th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Listen with transcript Stories this week: Applications & Business Chinese Search Giant Baidu to Launch ChatGPT-Style Bot Google To Release ChatGPT-like Bot Named Bard Alphabet Stock Loses $100 Billion After New AI Chatbot Gives Wrong Answer In Ad Quora opens its new AI chatbot app Poe to the general public You.com’s AI-infused Google rival provides a tantalizing glimpse of the future Perplexity AI Challenges ChatGPT and ...
Feb 13, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 149
Our 110th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! After a 4 month break, we're back with a new co-host, and will resume our regular weekly upload schedule. If you are a fan, we'd appreciate your feedback on Apple Podcast. Stories this week: Applications & Business BuzzFeed says it will use AI tools from OpenAI to personalize its content related : CNET Is Quietly Publishing Entire Articles Generated By AI CNET pauses publishing AI-written stories after disclosure controv...
Feb 05, 2023•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 148
Our 109th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! If you are a fan, we'd appreciate your feedback on Apple Podcast, or just via email to [email protected] - feel free to DM us on Twitter too! Outline: (00:00) Intro (03:08) Elon Musk shows off humanoid robot prototype at Tesla AI Day (07:15) It’s not just floods and fires: This AI forecasts how climate change will impact your city (10:00) Artificial Intelligence Spending Grew 20.7% Worldwide in 2021, According to IDC...
Oct 13, 2022•47 min•Ep. 147
Our 108th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! If you are a fan, we'd appreciate your feedback on Apple Podcast, or just via email to [email protected] - feel free to DM us on Twitter too! Outline (00:00) Intro (03:50) Using machine learning to identify undiagnosable cancers (08:30) North American companies send in the robots, even as productivity slumps (14:30) French tax officials use AI to spot 20,000 undeclared pools (15:12) AI illuminates permanently shadowe...
Sep 11, 2022•58 min•Ep. 146
Our 107th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Apologies for a lack of consistent episode releases lately, we've been really busy... If you are a fan, we'd appreciate your feedback on Apple Podcast, or just via email to [email protected] - feel free to DM us on Twitter too! Outline: (00:00) Intro (01:25) Machine-Learning Tools Predict Post-Op Complications, Surgery Duration (05:30) Sanas, the buzzy Silicon Valley startup that wants to make the world sound whiter ...
Sep 03, 2022•41 min•Ep. 145
Our 106th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Apologies for a lack of consistent episode releases lately, we've been really busy... If you are a fan, we'd appreciate your feedback on Apple Podcast, or just via email to [email protected] - feel free to DM us on Twitter too! Outline: (00:00) Intro (01: 32) Can artificial intelligence really help us talk to the animals? (06:13) How rangers are using AI to help protect India’s tigers (09:13) Meta Starts Testing Its ...
Aug 23, 2022•51 min•Ep. 144
Our 105th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Note: there was again a delay in editing, so this news is from two weeks ago. If you are a fan, we'd appreciate your feedback on Apple Podcast, or just via email to [email protected] - feel free to DM us on Twitter too! Outline: (00:00) Intro (01:30) AI speeds sepsis detection to prevent hundreds of deaths (05:05) Inside Midjourney, The Generative Art AI That Rivals DALL-E (09:20) OpenAI expands access to DALL-E 2, i...
Aug 06, 2022•44 min•Ep. 143
Our 104th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Note: there was a delay in editing, so this news is from two weeks ago. If you are a fan, we'd appreciate your feedback on Apple Podcast, or just via email to [email protected] - feel free to DM us on Twitter too! Outline: (00:00) Intro (01:10) Cruise’s Robot Car Outages Are Jamming Up San Francisco (05:00) Japan's forestry industry tests robots to address labor shortage (07:12) FIFA will track players’ bodies using ...
Jul 20, 2022•35 min•Ep. 142
Our 103rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! If you are a fan, we'd appreciate your feedback on Apple Podcast, or just via email to [email protected] - feel free to DM us on Twitter too! Outline: (00:00) Intro (01:10) Instagram is testing an AI tool that verifies your age by scanning your face (6:15) Bunnings, Kmart and The Good Guys using facial recognition technology to crack down on theft, Choice says (10:13) Cruise’s driverless autonomous cars start giving ...
Jul 06, 2022•46 min•Ep. 141
Our 102st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! If you are a fan, we'd appreciate your feedback on Apple Podcast, or just via email to [email protected] - feel free to DM us on Twitter too! Outline: (00:00) Intro (01:05) LaMDA’s Sentience is Nonsense - Here’s Why (2:00) Condemning the deployment of GPT-4chan (7:25) Microsoft and Meta join Google in using AI to help run their data centers (11:20) AI maturity: Only 12% of companies are 'AI Achievers' (16:45) NVIDIA ...
Jun 26, 2022•43 min•Ep. 140
Our 101st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! If you are a fan, we'd appreciate your feedback on Apple Podcast, or just via email to [email protected] - feel free to DM us on Twitter too! Outline: (0:00) Intro (1:13) Lessons from the GPT-4Chan Controversy (8:14) Google engineer put on leave after saying AI chatbot has become sentient (14:20) Tesla Autopilot safety faces bigger questions as US upgrades crash probe (18:05) Stunning Insights from James Webb Space T...
Jun 17, 2022•40 min•Ep. 139
Our 100th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! If you are a fan, we'd appreciate your feedback on Apple Podcast, or just via email to [email protected] - feel free to DM us on Twitter too! Outline: (00:00) Intro (03:12) Depressed? This algorithm can tell from the tone of your voice (09:38) Energy Grids Plug into AI for a Brighter, Cleaner Future (15:40) Meet ‘Codeball’ – A Deep Learning-based Automated Code Reviewer That Will Help Maintainers Review Github Pull R...
Jun 08, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 138
Our 99th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Sponsor: This episode is sponsored by Zencastr, our go-to tool for recording the podcast. It is super easy to use, and there is nothing to download. Go to http://zen.ai/ lastweekinai and get 30% off your first three months with a PRO account! Outline: (00:00) Intro (1:50) Royal Mail is Doing the Right Thing with Drone Delivery (6:10) Google uses AI to digitise maps in the utilities industry (8:57) AI on the Ball: Startup ...
Jun 02, 2022•48 min•Ep. 137
Our 98th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Sponsor: This episode is sponsored by Zencastr, our go-to tool for recording the podcast. It is super easy to use, and there is nothing to download. Go to http://zen.ai/ lastweekinai and get 30% off your first three months with a PRO account! Outline: (00:00) Intro (2:22) Autonomous cargo ship completes 500 mile voyage, avoiding hundreds of collisions (6:47) Investors pull back on artificial intelligence (9:49) Clearbot N...
May 28, 2022•47 min•Ep. 136
Our 97th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Sponsor: This episode is sponsored by Zencastr, our go-to tool for recording the podcast. It is super easy to use, and there is nothing to download. Go to http://zen.ai/ lastweekinai and get 30% off your first three months with a PRO account! Outline: (00:00) Intro (01:25) Hugging Face reaches $2 billion valuation to build the GitHub of machine learning (4:30) Google ups the AI ante with new features for Voice, Assistant,...
May 18, 2022•43 min•Ep. 135
Our 96th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Sponsor: This episode is sponsored by Zencastr, our go-to tool for recording the podcast. It is super easy to use, and there is nothing to download. Go to http://zen.ai/ lastweekinai and get 30% off your first three months with a PRO account! Outline: (00:00) Intro (01:36) Wearable, AI-powered whole-breast ultrasound system cleared by the FDA + FDA plays tooth fairy, awards clearance to VideaHealth's cavity-spotting AI (0...
May 13, 2022•45 min•Ep. 134
Our 95th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Sponsor: This episode is sponsored by Zencastr, our go-to tool for recording the podcast. It is super easy to use, and there is nothing to download. Go to http://zen.ai/ lastweekinai and get 30% off your first three months with a PRO account! Outline: (00:00) Intro Applications & Business (01:27) Meta Using AI to Create Greener Concrete for its Data Centers (07:00) AI can now kill those annoying cookie pop-ups (10:15) Lig...
May 05, 2022•43 min•Ep. 133
Our 94th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Sponsor: This episode is sponsored by Zencastr, our go-to tool for recording the podcast. It is super easy to use, and there is nothing to download. Go to http://zen.ai/ lastweekinai and get 30% off your first three months with a PRO account! Warning: some curse words are used in this episode towards the end Outline: (00:00) Intro (2:10) GM Patents Autonomous Tech to Train New Drivers Sans Instructor (6:22) Startups Join ...
Apr 29, 2022•47 min•Ep. 132
Our 93nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Outline: Intro Applications & Business (01:10) Venture funding for chip startups has doubled in the last five years thanks to AI (4:00) Google's multisearch feature lets you search with text and images at the same time (6:10) Lighting Round Nurse-assisting robotics firm Diligent raises $30M - "We’ve seen robotics applied to just about every other field of late, so why not nursing — a field that will require one million ne...
Apr 21, 2022•29 min•Ep. 131
Our 92nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Outline: (0:00) Intro Research & Advancements (01:15) OpenAI's new DALL.E model turns your words into pieces of art (5:45) Pathways Language Model (PaLM): Scaling to 540 Billion Parameters for Breakthrough Performance (10:00) Lighting Round Stanford Researchers Have Developed a Machine Learning-Based Algorithm To Detect Autism in Brain “Fingerprints” - "Patients with autism who are diagnosed early and definitively may ben...
Apr 17, 2022•37 min•Ep. 130
Our 91st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Outline: Applications & Business Meet the DeepMind mafia: These 18 alumni from Google's AI research lab are raising millions for their own startups, from climate to crypto Nvidia unveils new technology to speed up AI, launches new supercomputer Kroger and Nvidia partner to ‘reinvent the shopping experience’ with AI and digital twin simulations Top AI execs, including Richard Socher, launch AIX Ventures Research & Advancem...
Mar 31, 2022•50 min•Ep. 129
Our 90th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Outline: (00:00) Intro Applications & Business (1:10) Machine Learning Reimagines the Building Blocks of Computing (5:50) Meet ElliQ, the robot who wants to keep Grandma company (10:52) Lightning Round Research & Advancements (12:24) AI suggested 40,000 new possible chemical weapons in just six hours (14:15) Meta AI’s Sparse All-MLP Model Doubles Training Efficiency Compared to Transformers (16:15) Lightning Round Society...
Mar 24, 2022•30 min•Ep. 128
Our 89th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Subscribe: RSS | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube Outline: (00:00) Intro Applications & Business (3:23) Amazon Uses Machine Learning to Improve Video Quality on Prime Video (6:55) These Campaigns Hope 'Deepfake' Candidates Help Get Out the Vote Research & Advancements (16:25) DeepMind’s new AI model helps decipher, date, and locate ancient inscriptions (20:45) Generating and Identifying Propaganda With Machine Learning ...
Mar 17, 2022•51 min•Ep. 127
