To PhD or not to PhD, AI Bias, Facial Recognition Ethics, GPT-3

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.

  Meet GPT-3. It Has Learned to Code (and Blog and Argue).

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://lastweekin.ai/p/93

Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)