AI Best Friends, The Beatles + Machine Learning, Crime Prediction Bias, Transformer Quadraped Robot
Our 81th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Outline: (0:00) Intro (1:30) Meet your new A.I. best friend (6:37) The Beatles: Get Back Used High-Tech Machine Learning To Restore The Audio (10:26) Google, Cambridge U & Alan Turing Institute Propose PolyViT: A Universal Transformer for Image, Video, and Audio Classification (14:00) Deep-learning model speeds extreme weather predictions (18:23) How We Determined Crime Prediction Software Disproportionately Targeted Low-Income, Black, and Latino Neighborhoods (23:44) Inside Tesla as Elon Musk Pushed an Unflinching Vision for Self-Driving Cars (27:18) Alarmed by Tesla’s public self-driving test, state legislators demand answers from DMV (30:15) A Quadruped Humanoid Robot Might Be Able To Do It All (34:05) Forging New Pathways: Boys & Girls Clubs Teens Take AI From Idea to Application (38:00) Outro Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Feel free to email us your thoughts or feedback at contact@lastweekinai.comSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
16 Joulu 202138min
AI for Mathematicians, Timnit Gebru‘s New Research Center, No Ban on Killer Robots, Vertigo AI
Our 80th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Feel free to email us your thoughts or feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Check our text version of this news roundup over at lastweekin.ai. Outline: (01:10) Procedural storytelling is exploding the possibilities of video game narratives (04:16) Twitch Introduces Machine Learning Feature to Detect Suspicious Users (07:28) DeepMind’s AI helps untangle the mathematics of knots (11:06) Yale researchers combat biases in machine learning algorithms (13:40) Ex-Googler Timnit Gebru Starts Her Own AI Research Center (17:20) US rejects calls for regulating or banning ‘killer robots (19:50) Who, exactly, authored this AI-generated spin on Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo? (25:00) Outro Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
10 Joulu 202125min
Robots at Google Offices, AI-Powered Writing, AI Polygraph, AI Art
Our 79th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Feel free to email us your thoughts or feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Check our text version of this news roundup over at lastweekin.ai. Outline: (00:00) Intro (01:10) Alphabet is putting its prototype robots to work cleaning up around Google’s offices (04:42) Grammarly raises $200M at a $13B valuation to make you an even better writer using AI / AI-powered writing assistant Writer nabs $21M (07:03) A Leap Forward in Computer Vision: Facebook AI Says Masked Autoencoders Are Scalable Vision Learners (09:27) Research Professor Adji Bousso Dieng Is Out to Change the World With AI (11:42) A Utah company says it’s revolutionized truth-telling technology. Experts are highly skeptical (13:45) South Korea is Selling Millions of Photos To Facial Recognition Researchers (16:00) AWS makes AI and machine learning tangible with first major art debut at Smithsonian (19:00) ‘Paint Me a Picture’: NVIDIA Research Shows GauGAN AI Art Demo Now Responds to Words (21:45) Outro Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
25 Marras 202123min
Chat about Teaching AI at Stanford with Abigail See
A special discussion episode, where we do not cover AI news but instead chat about our experiences teaching AI classes at Stanford with Abigail See, a graduate from the Stanford AI Lab and a good friend of ours. Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
23 Marras 202152min
Record High AI Funding, AfriBERTa, Facial Recognition in the West Bank, Tesla FSD Beta Crash, AI for Stressed Dogs
Our 78th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Check our text version of this news roundup over at lastweekin.ai. This week: (00:00) Intro (01:40) Walmart is using fully driverless trucks to ramp up its online grocery business (05:20) AI startup funding hits record high of $17.9B in Q3 / Robot orders by companies surge as labor shortages linger (09:50) University of Waterloo AI Researchers Introduce A New NLP Model ‘AfriBERTa’ For African Languages Using Deep Learning Techniques (12:40) AI skin cancer diagnoses risk being less accurate for dark skin – study (16:55) Israel escalates surveillance of Palestinians with facial recognition program in West Bank (22:15) Tesla vehicle in ‘Full Self-Driving’ beta mode ‘severely damaged’ after crash in California (26:15) CMU opens first AI maker space to let students 'sharpen the cutting edge of AI' (28:25) Machine Learning Shushes Stressed Dogs (31:05) Outro Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
19 Marras 202132min
Facebook Shuts Down Facial Recognition, Google Wants to Work with the Pentagon, AI for Lie Detection?
Our 77th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Check our text version of this news roundup over at lastweekin.ai. This week: (01:06) Landing AI brings in $57M for its machine learning operations tools (05:13) As the Arctic Warms, AI Forecasts Scope Out Shifting Sea Ice (09:07) Why Facebook (Or Meta) Is Making Tactile Sensors for Robots (14:12) Google AI Introduces ‘GoEmotions’: An NLP Dataset for Fine-Grained Emotion Classification (18:28) Facebook, Citing Societal Concerns, Plans to Shut Down Facial Recognition System (21:40) Google Wants to Work With the Pentagon Again, Despite Employee Concerns (25:50) Australia Ordered Clearview AI to Destroy its Database, As Its Violating Privacy Laws (27:54) AIBA uses AI technology to vet judges and refs at Belgrade worlds (30:40) Miso Introduces Second Generation Restaurant Kitchen Robot, the Flippy 2 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
11 Marras 202134min
AI for Game Mods and Moderation, Tesla‘s Beta Rollback, Clearview AI Tested, ruDALL-E
Our 76th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Check our text version of this news roundup over at lastweekin.ai. This week: AI voice-acting tool xVASynth gets even better at recreating videogame voices Microsoft acquires AI-powered moderation platform Two Hat MIT’s Latest AI Research Using Deep Neural Networks Explains How The Brain Processes Language Works Making machine learning more useful to high-stakes decision makers Clearview AI finally takes part in a federal accuracy test. Tesla pulled the latest FSD Beta from owners’ cars today ruDALL-E: generating images from text descriptions, or the largest computational project in Russia Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
4 Marras 202124min
Rephrase.ai, MuJoCo, AI in Audacity, Illegal AI Porn Unblurring, Bigoted AI Ethics Model
Our 75th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Check our text version of this news roundup over at lastweekin.ai. This week: This startup is creating personalized deepfakes for corporations Inside Mailchimp’s push to bring AI to content marketing What MuJoCo’s acquisition means for DeepMind’s AI & robotics research Yann LeCun Team Challenges Current Beliefs on Interpolation and Extrapolation Regarding DL Model Generalization Performance Deep Learning Tools for Audacity A Harvard freshman made a social networking app called 'The FaceTag.' It's sparked a debate about the ethics of facial recognition. Man Arrested for Unblurring Japanese Porn With AI in First Deepfake Case Scientists Built an AI to Give Ethical Advice, But It Turned Out Super Racist Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
28 Loka 202131min
