Our 58th Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: Rebel AI group raises record cash after machine learning schism OpenAI launches $100 million startup fund with Microsoft Please Commit More Blatant Academic Fraud AI Could Soon Write Code Based on Ordinary Language All together now: the most trustworthy covid-19 model is an ensemble AI Can Write Disinformation Now—and Dupe Human Readers A rogue killer drone 'hunted down' a human target without b...
Jun 04, 2021•39 min•Ep 88•Transcript available on Metacast Our 57 Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: GPT-3’s free alternative GPT-Neo is something to be excited about Facebook Wav2vec-U learns to recognize speech from unlabeled data Deepfake dubs could help translate film and TV without losing an actor's original performance Quizzing Michelangelo AI History of Ethical AI at Google Sharing learnings about our image cropping algorithm Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: htt...
May 28, 2021•35 min•Ep 87•Transcript available on Metacast An interview with Janelle Shane, the creator of aiweirdness.com and author of ' You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How AI Works and Why It’s Making the World a Weirder Place '. Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Janelle Shane works as a research scientist in Colorado, where she makes computer-controlled holograms for studying the brain, and other light-steering devices. She is also a self-described A. I. Humorist - on aiweirdness.com , she writes about AI and the sometimes hilarious,...
May 25, 2021•54 min•Ep 86•Transcript available on Metacast Our 56th Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: Google Plans to Double AI Ethics Research Staff Grand Theft Auto Looks Frighteningly Photorealistic With This Machine Learning Technique The Pentagon Inches Toward Letting AI Control Weapons Tesla privately admits Elon Musk has been exaggerating about ‘full self-driving’ Tesla in fatal California crash may have been in autopilot mode, officials say DMV probing whether Tesla violates state regula...
May 20, 2021•26 min•Ep 85•Transcript available on Metacast Our 55th Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: China makes "world's largest satellite image database" to train AI better How to stop AI from recognizing your face in selfies It Began As an AI-Fueled Dungeon Game. It Got Much Darker The autonomous vehicle world is shrinking — it’s overdue Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/114 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.c...
May 13, 2021•24 min•Ep 84•Transcript available on Metacast Our 54th Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: Rethinking large conferences Google and UC Berkeley Propose Green Strategies for Large Neural Network Training Huawei trained the Chinese-language equivalent of GPT-3 Farming Robot Kills 100,000 Weeds per Hour With Lasers Lyft sells self-driving unit to Toyota’s Woven Planet for $550M Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/114 Music: Deliberate Thoug...
May 07, 2021•36 min•Ep 84•Transcript available on Metacast Our 53drd Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: AI-driven audio cloning startup gives voice to Einstein chatbot Can Medical Alexas Make Us Healthier? AI Pinpoints Local Pollution Hotspots Using Satellite Images Cerebras’ New Monster AI Chip Adds 1.4 Trillion Transistors Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/113 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)...
Apr 29, 2021•27 min•Ep 82•Transcript available on Metacast Our 52nd Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: Europe seeks to limit use of AI in society Two people killed in fiery Tesla crash with no one driving ‘No one was driving’ in Tesla crash that killed two men in Spring, Texas, report says 2.6 Million Fake Faces: AI Generated People May Be The Future Of The Metaverse, Celebrity, And Perhaps ... All Of Us Black women, AI, and overcoming historical patterns of abuse Find this and more in our text v...
Apr 22, 2021•28 min•Ep 81•Transcript available on Metacast Our 51st Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: Shedding light on fairness in AI with a new data set Government audit of AI with ties to white supremacy finds no AI Companies are racing to bring A.I. to the masses with no code software New' Nirvana Song Created 27 Years After Kurt Cobain's Death Via AI Software Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/111 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin...
Apr 16, 2021•36 min•Ep 80•Transcript available on Metacast An interview with Cade Metz, a New York Times reporter covering artificial intelligence, driverless cars, robotics, virtual reality, and other emerging areas. Previously, he was a senior staff writer with Wired magazine and the U.S. editor of The Register, one of Britain’s leading science and technology news sites. His first book, "Genius Makers", tells the stories of the The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World. Get the book: http://bit.ly/GeniusMakers Follow Cade on Tw...
Apr 12, 2021•59 min•Ep 79•Transcript available on Metacast Our 50th Last Week in AI episode! With some exciting news and our usual news coverage. Enjoy our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: Google AI Research Manager Quits After Two Ousted From Group Robots of the future at Boston Dynamics Silicon Valley leaders think AI will fund cash handouts Deepfake Amazon workers sowing confusion on twitter MIT study finds systematic labeling errors in popular AI benchmark datasets Find this and more in our text ver...
Apr 11, 2021•32 min•Ep 78•Transcript available on Metacast Our 49th Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: The 2021 AI Index: Major Growth Despite the Pandemic Multimodal Neurons in Artificial Neural Networks Meet the AI algorithms that judge how beautiful you are AI system can sniff out diseases as well as dogs do Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/106 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)...
Mar 11, 2021•34 min•Ep 77•Transcript available on Metacast Our 48th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: This OpenAI GPT-3 Powered Demo Is A Glimpse of NPCs In The Future Band of AI startups launch ‘rebel alliance’ for interoperability An AI is training counselors to deal with teens in crisis This cute book explains AI to children, without scary Terminators Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/105 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)...
Mar 09, 2021•25 min•Ep 76•Transcript available on Metacast Our 47th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: The AI Research Paper Was Real. The "Coauthor" Wasn't Clearview AI’s plan for invasive facial recognition is worse than you think This AI-powered gadget could completely disrupt the ridiculous hearing aid market Google reshuffles AI team leadership after researcher’s controversial departure Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/104 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspir...
Feb 26, 2021•27 min•Ep 75•Transcript available on Metacast Our 46th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: Georgia Startup Races to Complete AI-powered Voice Screening Tool to Crush COVID-19 New AI tool can thwart coronavirus mutations Deepfake porn is ruining women’s lives. Now the law may finally end it. 0:00 - 0:30 Intro 0:30 - 5:15 News Summary segment 5:15 News Discussion segment Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/103 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin...
Feb 18, 2021•24 min•Ep 74•Transcript available on Metacast Our 45th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: This is how we lost control of our faces Here’s a Way to Learn if Facial Recognition Systems Used Your Photos Amazon faces spying claims over AI cameras in vans AI in health care creates unique data challenges 0:00 - 0:30 Intro 0:30 - 4:30 News Summary segment 4:30 News Discussion segment Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/101 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired...
Feb 11, 2021•25 min•Ep 73•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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 (incom...
Nov 28, 2020•30 min•Ep 63•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 
