Making AI Less Racist and Terrible, AI for Wildfires and Reading Lips, Fun AI Facts about Fun Guys
Our 61st Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! On this episode, more controllable GAN, more controllable language models, AI for wildfires and reading lips, being critical of human oversight of AI, surveillance by AI in China, and some fun AI weirdness. Check out our interview with the creator of AI Weirdness (that we discuss as our last article) here: https://www.letstalkai.show/e/ai-weirdness-interview/ This week: Harnessing the Wild Power of AI Image Generation The Efforts to Make Text-Based AI Less Racist and Terrible AI Could Spot Wildfires Faster Than Humans Tech Companies Are Training AI to Read Your Lips The False Comfort of Human Oversight as an Antidote to A.I. Harm China's tech workers pushed to limits by surveillance software Fun Facts about Fun Guys Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/121 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.
24 Juni 202123min
DeepMind on General AI, Creepy Fake Humans, City Brains
Our 60th Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! On this episode, new ways to scale training, a take on RL being enough, care bots, creepy fake humans, AI for AI chips, City Brains in China, and cheaper robot dogs. This week: Microsoft’s ZeRO-Infinity Library Claims to Train 32 trillion Parameters Deep Learning Models On A Cluster of Just 32 GPUs DeepMind scientists: Reinforcement learning is enough for general AI ‘Care bots’ are on the rise and replacing human caregivers These creepy fake humans herald a new age in AI Google is using AI to design its next generation of AI chips more quickly than humans can Across China, AI ‘city brains’ are changing how the government runs This $2,700 robot dog will carry a single bottle of water for you Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/120 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.
17 Juni 202128min
Is GPT-3 Dissapointing, Killer Robots (?), the AI Hall of Shame
Our 59th Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: GPT-3: a disappointing paper NYU, Facebook & CIFAR Present ‘True Few-Shot Learning’ for Language Models Whose Few-Shot Ability They Say Is Overestimated Google Ventures-backed Merlin Labs is building AI that can fly planes Self-Driving Truck Completes 950-Mile Trip 10 Hours Faster Than Human Driver King County is first in the country to ban facial recognition software Have autonomous robots started killing in war? Don't End Up on This Artificial Intelligence Hall of Shame Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/119 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 Juni 202125min
Blatant Academic Fraud, OpenAI's New Sibling, a Killer Drone?!
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 being instructed to, UN report says Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/118 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 Juni 202139min
GPT-Neo, Wav2Vec-U, Deepfake Dubs, Michelangelo AI, History of Ethical AI at Google
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: https://lastweekin.ai/p/117 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 Maj 202134min
Janelle Shane on the Weirdness of AI
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, sometimes unsettling ways that algorithms get things wrong. Her work has also been featured in the New York Times, The Atlantic, WIRED, Popular Science, and more, AND she has also given the TED talk “The danger of AI is weirder than you think” in 2019. Her book, “You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How AI Works and Why It’s Making the World a Weirder Place” uses cartoons and humorous pop-culture experiments to look inside the minds of the algorithms that run our world, making artificial intelligence and machine learning both accessible and entertaining. Check out coverage of similar topics at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought 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 Maj 202154min
Elon Musk's Self Driving Claims, AI Ethics at Google, Photorealistic GTA 5
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 regulations with self-driving claims Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/116 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.
20 Maj 202126min
Satellite Image Data, Moderating AI Dungeon, Consolidating Autonomous Vehicles
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.com)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
13 Maj 202124min
