IBM Watson’s and ZIllow’s AI Failures, DeepMind’s Alphacode, GPT-NeoX-20B, AI Valentine’s Cards

Our 85th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Outline:

• (00:00) Intro
• (01:20) Machine learning the hard way: IBM Watson's fatal misdiagnosis
• (05:20) How homeowners defeated Zillow’s AI, which led to Zillow Offers’ demise
• (09:00) DeepMind claims its new code-generating system is competitive with human programmers
• (14:00) Announcing GPT-NeoX-20B
• (16:35) AI Insurance Company Faces Class Action for Use of Biometric Data
• (19:24) Democratic lawmakers take another stab at AI bias legislation
• (22:55) AI-generated Valentine's Cards
• (26:10) Tell this AI your story's themes, and it'll write the first paragraph for you
• (28:50) Outro