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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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 contact@lastweekin.ai - 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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 contact@lastweekin.ai - 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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 contact@lastweekin.ai - 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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 contact@lastweekin.ai - 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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 contact@lastweekin.ai - 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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 contact@lastweekin.ai - 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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 contact@lastweekin.ai - 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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 contact@lastweekin.ai - 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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 contact@lastweekin.ai - 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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 contact@lastweekin.ai - 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast Our 88th 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 (01:18) How GitHub Uses Machine Learning to Extend Vulnerability Code Scanning (06:55) First Wholly AI-Developed Drug Enters Phase 1 Trials Research & Advancements (10:50) Stanford University use AI computing to cut DNA sequencing down to five hours (15:36) AI Machines Have Beaten Moore's Law Over The Last Decade, Say Comput...
Mar 10, 2022•47 min•Ep 126•Transcript available on Metacast Our 87th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Subscribe: RSS | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube Outline: (00:00) Intro (01:30) AI Arrives for Serious Photo Editing, Not Just Smartphone Snapshots (05:20) Listen to an AI voice actor try and flirt with you (10:28) DeepMind’s AI can control superheated plasma inside a fusion reactor (15:55) Good News About the Carbon Footprint of Machine Learning Training (21:36) Who Is Behind QAnon? Linguistic Detectives Find Fingerpr...
Feb 24, 2022•40 min•Ep 125•Transcript available on Metacast Our 86th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Subscribe: RSS | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube Outline: (00:00) Intro (01:22) This AI is set to help stop illegal fishing (04:21) An ancient language has defied translation for 100 years. Can AI crack the code? (09:40) The New CGI: Creating Neural Neighborhoods With Block-NeRF (12:45) MuZero’s first step from research into the real world (16:40) MoviePass 2.0 Wants to Track Your Eyeballs to Make Sure You Watch Ads (2...
Feb 17, 2022•29 min•Ep 124•Transcript available on Metacast Our 85th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Subscribe: RSS | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube 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 ...
Feb 10, 2022•31 min•Ep 123•Transcript available on Metacast Our 84rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Note: apologies for issues with sound quality in this episode! Outline: Applications & Business Meta Aims to Build the World's Fastest AI Supercomputer Deploying machine learning to improve mental health Research & Advancements OpenAI rolls out new text-generating models that it claims are less toxic Meta researchers build an AI that learns equally well from visual, written or spoken materials Society & Ethics China Propo...
Feb 06, 2022•33 min•Ep 122•Transcript available on Metacast Our 83rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Outline: (00:00) Intro (01:10) This AI Software Nearly Predicted Omicron’s Tricky Structure (02:48) BioNTech and London A.I. company create "early warning system" for COVID-19 variants (05:20) We’re one step closer to self-farming farms (09:55) ‘We Were Blown Away’: How New A.I. Research Is Changing the Way Conservators and Collectors Think About Attribution (12:42) Meta claims its AI improves speech recognition quality b...
Jan 22, 2022•38 min•Ep 121•Transcript available on Metacast For our first episode in 2022, we are joined with our friends from the Towards Data Science podcast to discuss our thoughts about the AI-related trends and events that happened in 2021. Some things we discuss are: Foundation models continue to grow, but one interesting trend is the focus on efficiency along with (instead of?) scale. For example, while DeepMind’s Gopher model has fewer than twice the parameters of GPT-3, it’s reportedly 25 times more efficient, meaning that much more value is bei...
Jan 06, 2022•49 min•Ep 120•Transcript available on Metacast 
