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Weekly AI news summaries and discussion about the most interesting developments in AI, deep learning, robotics, and more!

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#115 - GPT4, Bard, AGI, Alpaca, Anthropic, Midjourney V5
01:42:11

Our 115th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Mar 26, 2023
#114 - ChatGPT applications, Claude, PALM-E, OpenAI criticism, AI-generated spam
01:33:41

Our 114th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Mar 10, 2023
#113 - Nvidia’s 10k GPU, Toolformer, AI alignment, John Oliver
01:02:12

Our 113th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Mar 04, 2023
#112 - Bing Chat Antics, Bio and Mario GPT, Stopping an AI Apocalypse, Stolen Voices
01:19:30

Our 112th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Feb 26, 2023
#111 - Mostly ChatGPT Again, plus Google’s Bard, Climate Change, AI Seinfeld
01:07:45

Our 111th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Feb 13, 2023
#110 - We’re back! ChatGPT, ChatGPT, ChatGPT, and some other stuff
01:13:03

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.

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Feb 05, 2023
#109 - Tesla Bot, Text-to-Video, Speech-to-Text, AI Voices Darth Vader
46:49

Our 109th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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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

(10:52) Tesla is being sued over Autopilot and Elon Musk’s Full Self-Driving predictions 

(11:50) Uber Eats and Nuro sign a 10-year deal to do robot food delivery in California and Texas 

(13:00) Announcing the PyTorch Foundation: A new era for the cutting-edge AI framework

(13:45) Meta’s new text-to-video AI generator is like DALL-E for video , Google answers Meta’s video-generating AI with its own, dubbed Imagen Video

(19:05) OpenAI open-sources Whisper, a multilingual speech recognition system

(23:00) Can eyes on self-driving cars reduce accidents? Cues from moving eyes could help pedestrians anticipate vehicle's intentions

(24:00) Why DeepMind Is Sending AI Humanoids to Soccer Camp

(25:00) How Transformers Seem to Mimic Parts of the Brain 

(25:30) NVIDIA's new AI model quickly generates objects and characters for virtual worlds

(26:45) Clearview AI, Used by Police to Find Criminals, Now in Public Defenders’ Hands , House Democrats debut new bill to limit US police use of facial recognition

(30:30) Artist receives first known US copyright registration for generative AI art 

(33:14) Getty Images bans AI-generated content over fears of legal challenges

(34:00)  A.I. Is Making It Easier Than Ever for Students to Cheat

(34:50) There’s no Tiananmen Square in the new Chinese image-making AI

(35:45) US to invest $50 billion in spring 2023 as it looks to counter Chinese chip development 

(36:25) Darth Vader’s Voice Emanated From War-Torn Ukraine

(39:40) I Resurrected "Ugly Sonic" with Stable Diffusion Textual Inversion

(43:00) Artist uses AI to extract color palettes from text descriptions

(43:55) Hellblade developer Ninja Theory confirms it won’t replace voice actors with AI

(45:35) Outro

Oct 13, 2022
#108 - Undiagnosable Cancers, Robot Sales, Decoding Brain Activity, AI Music
58:19

Our 108th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Sep 11, 2022
#107 - Surgery Outcomes, Accent Removal, Archeological Dating, Deepfakes
40:59

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...

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Sep 03, 2022
#106 - Animal Speech, AI Pilot, Wrongful Arrest, Redesigning Streets
51:16

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...

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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 Latest AI Chatbot, BlenderBot 3  (10:35) AI startup Cerebras celebrated for chip triumph where others tried and failed (11:35) You can (sort of) generate art like Dall-E with TikTok’s latest filter (13:10) Open-source rival for OpenAI’s DALL-E runs on your graphics card  (16:00) Wearable AI Sensor Supports Personalized Health Data Processing, Analysis (20:15) AI pilot can navigate crowded airspace (24:18) Hyundai announces $400M AI, robotics institute powered by Boston Dynamics (25:30) In simulation of how water freezes, artificial intelligence breaks the ice (26:26) New algorithm aces university math course questions (27:28) The AI-powered swimmer is able to switch between different locomotory gaits adaptively to navigate toward any target location on its own (28:25) Facial recognition smartwatches to be used to monitor foreign offenders in UK (32:30) Man Sues City of Chicago, Claiming Its AI Wrongly Imprisoned Him (35:35) AI Contractors Eyeing Bigger Role Backed by Chips Bill Funds (37:26) China drafts rules on use of self-driving vehicles for public transport (38:30) Baidu's robotaxis don't need any human staff in these parts of China (39:35) U.S. appeals court says artificial intelligence can’t be patent inventor (41:45) Robot Repeatedly Rearranges Remnants In The Round (44:20) Think Your Street Needs a Redesign? Ask an AI (50:09) Outro

Aug 23, 2022
#105 - Sepsis Detection, Midjourney, Submarines, DALL-E 2 Food
43:43
Aug 06, 2022
#104 - Cruise Outages, Robots for Forestry, BigScience’s BLOOM, EU AI Act
34:38

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.

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Jul 20, 2022
#103 - Age Checks, Theft Prevention, Minecraft, Autism, Responsible AI
46:29

Our 103rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Jul 06, 2022
#102 - Nonsense Sentience, Condemning GPT-4chan, DeepFake bans, CVPR Plagiarism
43:12
Jun 26, 2022
#101 - GPT-4chan, ’Sentient’ AI, Tesla Crash Probe, BIG-bench, DALL-E mini
40:20
Jun 17, 2022
#100 - Depression, Energy Grid, MRI, Astronomy, DALLE Logos
01:03:08

Our 100th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Jun 08, 2022
#99 - Drone Mail Delivery, Human-Robot Teamwork, ToxiGen, Robot Companions
47:31

Our 99th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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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 Shoots Computer Vision to the Soccer Pitch 

(9:26) Google Adds Machine Learning-Powered Studio Lighting To Video Calls 

(11:33) Dyson launches a hiring spree for hundreds of engineers to build robots capable of doing household chores 

(12:20) Pony.ai loses permit to test autonomous vehicles with driver in California 

(12:52) Researchers develop algorithm to divvy up tasks for human-robot teams

(19:42) Microsoft AI Researchers Introduces (De)ToxiGen: A Large-Scale Machine-Generated Dataset for Adversarial and Implicit Hate Speech Detection

(24:32) Researchers Use Machine Learning to Identify Thousands of New Marine RNA Viruses in Study of Interest to Microbiologists and Clinical Laboratory Scientists 

(25:17) Tiny robotic crab is smallest-ever remote-controlled walking robot 

(26:12) TartanDrive dataset likely largest for off-road environments 

(26:48) AI Framework Cuts Time, Effort Needed to Predict Critical Care Outcomes 

(27:13) Ad break

(28:25) China and Europe are leading the push to regulate A.I. — one of them could set the global playbook

(33:30) New York State Office for the Aging deploys AI robots as companions for older adults 

(37:25) Oxford High School tests AI gun detection system in wake of shooting 

(38:38) An Autonomous Car Blocked a Fire Truck Responding to an Emergency 

(40:12) U.S. firm Clearview A.I. fined for illegally collecting images of Brits' faces 

(41:19) Pentagon names new chief of responsible artificial intelligence 

(42:05) The Day I Became Friends with a Robot 

(44:26) I Used AI To See What These 23 Popular Cartoon Characters Would Look Like In Real Life

(46:14) Outro

Jun 02, 2022
#98 - Autonomous Boats, DeepMind’s General AI, Google’s DALLE-2, Cringe AI Novel
46:33

Our 98th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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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 Neo autonomously clears plastic from harbors - "Open Ocean Engineering’s Clearbot Neo is a robotic boat that autonomously navigates harbors, canals and rivers to collect trash that would otherwise wash into the ocean." (10:30) You can practice for a job interview with Google AI - "Never mind reading generic guides or practicing with friends — Google is betting that algorithms can get you ready for a job interview. The company has launched an Interview Warmup tool that uses AI to help you prepare for interviews across various roles." (11:02) Uber Eats Dabbles With Delivering Food Via Robots - "Uber Eats is now testing autonomous food delivery in the Los Angeles area." (12:12) Ford-backed robotaxi startup Argo AI is ditching its human safety drivers in Miami and Austin - "Robotaxi startup Argo AI said Tuesday it has begun operating its autonomous test vehicles without human safety drivers in two U.S. cities — Miami and Austin — a major milestone for the Ford- and Volkswagen-backed company. For now, those driverless vehicles won't be carrying paying customers."

(13:17) DeepMind’s new AI can perform over 600 tasks, from playing games to controlling robots (20:10) Google claims its text-to-image AI delivers 'unprecedented photorealism' (25:30) Simultaneous emulation of neuronal and synaptic properties promotes the development of brain-like artificial intelligence - "Researchers have reported a nano-sized neuromorphic memory device that emulates neurons and synapses simultaneously in a unit cell, another step toward completing the goal of neuromorphic computing designed to rigorously mimic the human brain with semiconductor devices." (26:27) Face-to-face screening combined with machine learning model performs best at suicide risk prediction - "According to a study published in JAMA Network Open, a combination of in-person screenings and machine learning worked better than either method alone when it came to predicting suicide attempts and suicidal ideation in adults." (27:11) Google’s Universal Pretraining Framework Unifies Language Learning Paradigms - "Their 20B parameter model surpasses the state-of-the-art 175B GPT-3 on the zero-shot SuperGLUE benchmark and triples the performance of T5-XXL on one-shot summarization tasks." (27:49) Robotic surgery is safer and improves patient recovery time - "Robot-assisted surgery used to perform bladder cancer removal and reconstruction enables patients to recover far more quickly and spend significantly (20 per cent) less time in hospital, concludes a first-of-its kind clinical trial led by scientists at UCL and the University of Sheffield." (28:20) Ad break

(29:48) AI may be searching you for guns the next time you go out in public

(35:09) Israeli firm hopes AI can curb drownings

(38:12) Fatal Tesla Model S Crash in California Prompts Federal Probe - "The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating a fatal crash involving a 2022 Tesla Model S that may have had its automated driving system activated."

(39:10) Facebook issues $397 checks to Illinois residents as part of class-action - "More than a million Illinois residents will receive a $397 settlement payment from Facebook this week, thanks to a legal battle over the platform’s since-retired photo-tagging system that used facial recognition."

(39:50) Clearview AI's Facial Recognition Tool Coming to Apps, Schools - “Clearview AI is expanding sales of its facial recognition software to companies from mainly serving the police, it told Reuters, inviting scrutiny on how the startup capitalizes on billions of photos it scrapes from social media profiles. Instead of online photo comparisons, the new private-sector offering matches people to ID photos and other data that clients collect with subjects' permission. It is meant to verify identities for access to physical or digital spaces.”

(41:00) A Novelist and an AI Cowrote Your Next Cringe-Read

(44:03) AI Made This Thumbnail!

(45:46) Outro

May 28, 2022
#97 - New Google AI Features, Enzyme Discovery, Clearview AI Ban, Kendric Lamar Deepfakes
43:08

Our 97th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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May 18, 2022
#96 - FDA Clearances, Firing at Google AI, AI for Apple Watch, Beer and Wine Reviews
45:08

Our 96th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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May 13, 2022
#95 - AI Kills Cookie Pop-Ups, Models Volcanoes, Screens for Child Neglect, Paints Harry Potter
43:04

Our 95th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Outline:

(00:00) Intro

Applications & Business

Research & Advancements

(24:15) Ad break Society & Ethics

Fun & Neat

(41:56) Outro

May 05, 2022
#94 - AI Driving Instructors, MASSIVE Speech Dataset, AI ’Show Stealers’, Tesla Jet Crash
46:41

Our 94th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Apr 29, 2022
#93 - Chip Startup Funding Doubled, Google Text+Image Search, Analog AI, Criminal Robotaxi
29:09

Our 93nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Apr 21, 2022
#92 - OpenAI’s DALL-E 2, Google’s PaLM, AI Intel in Ukraine, Hugging Robots
36:45

Our 92nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

Outline:

  • Outro
Apr 17, 2022
#91 - DeepMind Mafia, DishBrain, PRIME, ZooKeeper AI, Instant NeRF
50:02
Mar 31, 2022
#90 - AI for Algorithms, Chemical Weapons, Zelenskyy Deepfake, Border Control
30:15
Mar 24, 2022
Deepfakes for Politicians, AI Propaganda, Operation Safety Net, Understanding Pigs
50:36
Mar 17, 2022
AI-Developed Drug, AI Beats Moore’s Law, Russia’s AI Army, Baidu’s Robotaxis
47:17
Mar 10, 2022
AI flirts, controls a fusion reactor, unmasks Q, draws Pokémon
39:59
Feb 24, 2022
AI for Ancient Languages, Eye Tracking for Ads, Pulpy AI Sci Fi Covers
29:07
Feb 17, 2022
IBM Watson’s and ZIllow’s AI Failures, DeepMind’s Alphacode, GPT-NeoX-20B, AI Valentine’s Cards
30:51
Feb 10, 2022
OpenAI’s InstructGPT, Meta’s New AI Supercomputer, China Regulates DeepFakes, AI Playes Tetris
33:29
Feb 06, 2022
AI for Omicron, Self-Farming Farms, AI-designed beer, Cuddly AI
37:41
Jan 22, 2022
Looking Back at AI in 2021 with Jeremie from Towards Data Science
49:27

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 being squeezed out of the same training data and compute. AI21Labs’ Jurrassic models are also equal to GPT-3 on a parameter count basis, but reflect a focus on architecture optimization over raw scaling that we expect to persist into 2022. (That’s not to say significant scaling won’t happen, or that it hasn’t happened already; Microsoft Turing-NLG, released a few months ago, is over half a trillion parameters in size. But it’s safe to say that scaling won’t be done without simultaneous efficiency optimizations that were less of a focus in late-2020.)
  • Procedural environment generation has been a big theme in reinforcement learning. In Open-Ended Learning Leads to Generally Capable Agents, the team at DeepMind showed how training RL agents on a wide range of environments can lead to emergent behaviour associated with generalization, like trial and error and cooperation with friendly agents.
  • Open-ended learning (OEL) seems like an interesting wildcard, which some researchers think might be an important ingredient in the final AGI recipe. We spoke with OpenAI’s head of open-ended learning, Ken Stanley, about what role OEL might play in the future of AI on this episode of the TDS podcast.
  • A NeurIPS spotlight paper titled Optimal Policies Tend to Seek Power, and subsequent work by the same author, are showing that we should expect highly capable AI systems to engage in dangerous behaviour that’s misaligned with human values, by default. Specifically, highly competent agents will tend to search for states that are powerful, in the sense that they offer many downstream options. This finding makes a compelling case that AI alignment ought to be prioritized, particularly given the rate of progress we’re seeing in AI capabilities more broadly. If it really is the case that capable AI systems will be dangerous by default, active effort must be invested in safety research.
Outline:
  • 0:00 Intro
  • 2:15 Rise of multi-modal models
  • 7:40 Growth of hardware and compute
  • 13:20 Reinforcement learning
  • 20:45 Open-ended learning
  • 26:15 Power seeking paper
  • 32:30 Safety and assumptions
  • 35:20 Intrinsic vs. extrinsic motivation
  • 42:00 Mapping natural language
  • 46:20 Timnit Gebru’s research institute
  • 49:20 Wrap-up
Jan 06, 2022
Create AI art with an app, an AI-powered game platform, the year of monster AI models, better images of AI
30:00
Jan 01, 2022
AI Best Friends, The Beatles + Machine Learning, Crime Prediction Bias, Transformer Quadraped Robot
38:52
Dec 16, 2021
AI for Mathematicians, Timnit Gebru‘s New Research Center, No Ban on Killer Robots, Vertigo AI
25:45

Our 80th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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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)

Dec 10, 2021
Robots at Google Offices, AI-Powered Writing, AI Polygraph, AI Art
23:00
Nov 25, 2021
Chat about Teaching AI at Stanford with Abigail See
52:39

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.

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

Nov 23, 2021
Record High AI Funding, AfriBERTa, Facial Recognition in the West Bank, Tesla FSD Beta Crash, AI for Stressed Dogs
32:14
Nov 19, 2021
Facebook Shuts Down Facial Recognition, Google Wants to Work with the Pentagon, AI for Lie Detection?
34:11
Nov 11, 2021
AI for Game Mods and Moderation, Tesla‘s Beta Rollback, Clearview AI Tested, ruDALL-E
24:55
Nov 04, 2021
Rephrase.ai, MuJoCo, AI in Audacity, Illegal AI Porn Unblurring, Bigoted AI Ethics Model
31:13
Oct 28, 2021
Waymo‘s Taxi Struggles, Robot Surveillance in Singapore, AI against Human Trafficking
31:57
Oct 22, 2021
DeepMind‘s Rain Nowcasting, OpenAI‘s Book Summarization, Distracted Tesla Drivers, Amazon‘s $1k robot
30:00

Our 73rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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

Oct 08, 2021
AI for climate modeling, Deepfakes are here, Boston Dynamics in a fight
37:53
Sep 15, 2021
AI for lonely people, GPT-3 is toxic, Tesla investigation develops, Kiwibot
29:04
Sep 11, 2021
AI for Spreadsheets, Hospital Robots, NLP Benchmarking, AI Play
30:04
Sep 03, 2021
Tesla Bot, AI Val Kilmer, DeepMind‘s Perceiver IO, Apple‘s NeuralHash
40:20
Aug 27, 2021
OpenAI‘s Codex Update, Boston Dynamics Parkour, Twitter AI Bias
37:44
Aug 20, 2021
Fabricated AI Research, AI Phishing Emails, AI Package Theft Detection
31:43
Aug 16, 2021
Malware in AI models, Algorithmic Bias Bounty, Robot Beach-Cleaners and Beehives
23:43

Our 66th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! NOTE: audio is fixed on this upload.

This week:

  • Meet BeachBot, a beach rover that uses AI to remove cigarette butts from beaches

  • Here Is A Fully Autonomous AI-Powered Beehive That Could Save Bee Colonies

  • Researchers demonstrate that malware can be hidden inside AI models

  • Facebook AI Releases ‘VoxPopuli’, A Large-Scale Open Multilingual Speech Corpus For AI Translations in NLP Systems

  • China built the world's largest facial recognition system. Now, it's getting camera-shy.

  • Twitter announces first algorithmic bias bounty challenge

  • Say Hello To The Tokyo Olympic Robots

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Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/127

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

Aug 11, 2021
Our 100th episode! A look back with hosts Andrey, Sharon, and Daniel
15:58

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Aug 02, 2021
AI in the US State and Federal Governments with the hosts of the AI Today Podcast
35:36

Check out this special crossover episode with the AI Today podcast, the hosts of which Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer discuss pressing topics around artificial intelligence, interview guests and experts on the subject, and cut through the hype around AI.

For this crossover episode, we thought it’d be fun to chat about some of the topics that have recently been covered on the AI Today podcast, in particular what has been happening with AI in government.

Specifically, we discuss:

  • Challenges in Federal AI Adoption Interview with Justin Marsico, Chief Data Officer at the Bureau Of The Fiscal Service
  • AI Center of Excellence in the US Federal Government - Interview with Neil Chaudhry, GSA
  • Data and AI at the State level, interview with Joy Bonaguro, CDO State of California
  • Data and AI in the state of North Dakota, Interview with Dorman Bazzell, CDO of North Dakota

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

Jul 28, 2021
DeepMind‘s AlphaFold 2, Voice Cloning, Facial Recognition in Retail Stores
25:18
Jul 26, 2021
Reflecting on AI news in 2021 (so far) with the host of the Towards Data Science Podcast
43:01
2021 has been a bit less crazy than 2020 so far, but plenty of notable stuff has already happened. So, we decided to partner with our friends over at the Towards Data Science podcast, hosted by co-founder of ShapestMinds Jeremie Harris.

Specifically, we discuss: This avocado armchair could be the future of AI, For Its Latest Trick

Facial-Recognition Tools in Spotlight in New Jersey False Arrest Case

New' Nirvana Song Created 27 Years After Kurt Cobain's Death Via AI Software

As well as the general trends these stories represent.

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

Jul 21, 2021
AI for Shaming Politicians, the New AI Art Scene, DeepFake Phishing
25:07
Jul 16, 2021
An AI Serial Killer, Scary Good Voice AI, Robot Rock, Israel‘s AI-powered Weapons
25:33
Jul 09, 2021
Sean McGregor on the AI Incident Database and the AI XPRIZE
34:26

An interview with Sean McGregor, the ML architect at the neural accelerator startup Syntiant who also works with the XPRIZE Foundation and is the creator and maintainer of the Partnership on AI's Incident Database.

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

Jul 06, 2021
AI for COVID detection fails, GitHub's Copilot can code, GAN Theft Auto is fun
39:14

This week:

Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/122

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

Jul 01, 2021
Jordan Harrod on being an AI researcher and educator
53:05

An interview with Jordan Harrod, a PhD Candidate in the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology program, a YouTuber who creates educational videos about AI, and an advocate for evidence-based policy.

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Detailed bio: Jordan Harrod is a Ph.D. Candidate in Medical Engineering and Medical Physics at the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology program. Her research focuses on using neuromodulation to understand pain and consciousness, and using neurotechnology and machine learning to develop new tools for brain stimulation. She is also a significant communicator and educator focused on AI, with her YouTube channel having many videos on how we interact with artificial intelligence in our daily lives, and she is also the Chief Operating Officer of the MIT Science Policy Review, a peer-reviewed science policy journal.

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Jun 29, 2021
Making AI Less Racist and Terrible, AI for Wildfires and Reading Lips, Fun AI Facts about Fun Guys
23:16

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Jun 24, 2021
DeepMind on General AI, Creepy Fake Humans, City Brains
28:00

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Jun 17, 2021
Is GPT-3 Dissapointing, Killer Robots (?), the AI Hall of Shame
25:27
Jun 10, 2021
Blatant Academic Fraud, OpenAI's New Sibling, a Killer Drone?!
39:02
Jun 04, 2021
GPT-Neo, Wav2Vec-U, Deepfake Dubs, Michelangelo AI, History of Ethical AI at Google
34:42

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May 28, 2021
Janelle Shane on the Weirdness of AI
54:19

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'.

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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.

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May 25, 2021
Elon Musk's Self Driving Claims, AI Ethics at Google, Photorealistic GTA 5
26:22

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May 20, 2021
Satellite Image Data, Moderating AI Dungeon, Consolidating Autonomous Vehicles
24:25

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May 13, 2021
Rethinking Conferences, Chinese GPT-3, Farming Robots, Lyft's AV Sale
35:34

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May 07, 2021
AI Einstein, Medical Alexas, 1.4 Trillion Transistor AI Chip
26:33

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Apr 29, 2021
Tesla Deaths, 2.6 Million DeepFakes, Europe AI Regulations
27:43

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Apr 22, 2021
AI Nirvana Song, Facebook Fairness Dataset, No-Code AI
36:14

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Apr 16, 2021
The Pioneers of Modern AI with Cade Metz, author of "Genius Makers"
59:17

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 Twitter: https://twitter.com/CadeMetz/​ And on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cademetz/

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Apr 12, 2021
Boston Dynamics, DeepFake Amazon Workers, Systematic Labeling Errors
31:32

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Apr 11, 2021
AI Growth, OpenAI's Smart Neurons, Disease Sniffing AI
34:19

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Mar 11, 2021
GPT-3 NPCs, Rebel AI Startups, A Cute AI Book
24:41

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Mar 09, 2021
More Unethical AI Research, More Google Drama, More Clearview AI
27:19

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Feb 26, 2021
AI Against COVID 19, Regulating DeepFake Porn, the State of Self Driving Cars
24:00

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Feb 18, 2021
Facial Recognition and Privacy, Amazon AI Cameras, AI in Health Care
25:21

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Feb 11, 2021
Detecting Surveillance, Autonomous Weapons, National AI Compute Needs
25:00

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Feb 04, 2021
Bad Uses of AI, Google and Margaret Mitchell, AI for Fairer Healthcare
37:02
  • 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

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    Jan 28, 2021
    Clearview AI in the Capitol, Medical AI Regulation, DeepFake Text
    22:49

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    Jan 21, 2021
    OpenAI‘s Image Models, US‘s New Provisions for AI, NeurIPS Discussion
    34:22

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    Jan 14, 2021
    NY‘s moratorium on facial recognition, deepfakes in 2020, and more!
    22:50

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    Jan 07, 2021
    A narrowing of AI research? with Juan Mateos-Garcia
    59:18

    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.

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    Dec 12, 2020
    The firing of Dr.Timnit Gebru, AlphaFold, and Unions Against AI
    23:13

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    Dec 10, 2020
    The De-democratization of AI: Deep Learning and the Compute Divide in Artificial Intelligence Research with Nur Ahmed
    24:56

    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”.

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    Dec 05, 2020
    To PhD or not to PhD, AI Bias, Facial Recognition Ethics, GPT-3
    42:59

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    Dec 03, 2020
    Machine Learning for Art with Google's Emil Wallner
    29:57

    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.

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    Nov 28, 2020
    The way we train AI is fundamentally flawed, bias, the compute divide
    30:43

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    Nov 26, 2020
    AI‘s replication crisis, reddit discussions, government-sponsored medical AI
    10:27

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    Nov 19, 2020
    Geoff Hinton‘s Hot Take, Robots in Walmart and Art, Confidence in AI for Healthcare
    29:26

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    Nov 13, 2020
    OpenAI's "Scaling Laws for Autoregressive Generative Modeling"
    33:15

    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.

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    Nov 08, 2020
    Yann LeCun on GPT-3, New Google Projects, Inequality, GPT-3 on Hacker News
    31:56

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    Nov 05, 2020
    DeepNude Bot, Tesla Full Self Driving, Google AI US-Mexico Border
    29:23

    This week Automating Image Abuse: deepfake bots on Telegram, Activists Turn Facial Recognition Tools Against the Police, Tesla is putting ‘self driving’ in the hands of drivers amid criticism the tech is not ready, Google AI tech will be used for virtual border wall, CBP contract shows

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    Oct 29, 2020
    The Top Myths About AI
    35:57

    An interview with Daniel Leufer and Alexa Steinbrück about their project AIMyths.org.

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    Oct 25, 2020
    Accessible AI, Partnership on AI, Dataset Compression, Military AI
    22:04

    Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

    This week Microsoft and partners aim to shrink the ‘data desert’ limiting accessible AI, Access Now resigns from Partnership on AI due to lack of change among tech companies, A radical new technique lets AI learn with practically no data,

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    Oct 22, 2020
    Measurement in AI Policy: Opportunities and Challenges
    51:58

    An interview with Jack Clark and Raymond Perrault about their recent paper Measurement in AI Policy: Opportunities and Challenges.

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    Oct 20, 2020
    GPT-3 on reddit, Facial Recognition in Argentina, Stats on Big Tech Financing Academics
    22:00

    Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

    This week A GPT-3 bot posted comments on Reddit for a week and no one noticed , Live facial recognition is tracking kids suspected of being criminals, Many Top AI Researchers Get Financial Backing From Big Tech

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    Oct 15, 2020
    Working With Robots in a Post-Pandemic World
    29:02

    An interview with Professor Matt Beane about his recent paper Working With Robots in a Post-Pandemic World, co-authored with Professor Erik Brynjolfsson.

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    Oct 10, 2020
    DeepFake Dictators, AI Sepsis Watch, Biased Exam Monitoring
    17:24

    Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

    This week  How an AI tool for fighting hospital deaths actually worked in the real world, ExamSoft’s remote bar exams sparks privacy and facial recognition concerns, Deepfake Putin is here to warn American’s about their self-inflicted doom

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    Oct 08, 2020
    DeepLearning.AI GANs for Good Panel + Q&A
    50:53

    Courtesy of our regular host Sharon, an except from the event celebrating a new course on GANs she teaches.

    See the full event here: https://youtu.be/9d4jmPmTWmc

    "To celebrate the launch of GANs Specialization, we’ve assembled a panel of GANs experts. They will discuss some of their current projects and the importance and future of GANs and also provide practical career advice for ML practitioners."

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    Oct 04, 2020
    Bias in Twitter & Zoom, LAPD Facial Recognition, GPT-3 Exclusivity
    23:08

    Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

    This week Twitter and Zoom’s algorithmic bias issuesDespite past denials, LAPD has used facial recognition software 30,000 times in last decade, records show, We’re not ready for AI, says the winner of a new $1m AI prize, How humane is the UK’s plan to introduce robot companions in care homes?, OpenAI is giving Microsoft exclusive access to its GPT-3 language model

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    Oct 01, 2020
    Face Mask Recognition, Detecting Disinformation, Protecting Kids, and Uber‘s Crash
    24:20

    Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

    This week Face mask recognition has arrived - for better or worse, Google claims its AI is becoming better at recognizing breaking news and disinformation, Why kids need special protection from AI’s influence, Why Wasn’t Uber Charged in a Fatal Self-Driving Car Crash?

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    Sep 24, 2020
    The Evolving Impact of Robots on Jobs
    29:51

    An interview with Professors Jong Hyun Chung and Yong Suk Lee about their recent paper The Evolving Impact of Robots on Jobs.

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    Sep 19, 2020
    GPT-3 Clickbait, Wildfires, Heroes, Standards, Exports
    23:49
     

    Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

    This week Hope Returns to the Machine Learning Universe, California Utilities Hope Drones, AI Will Lower Risk of Future Wildfires, How to edit writing by a robot: a step-by-step guide, The Guardian’s GPT-3-generated article is everything wrong with media hype, *AI standards launched to help tackle the problem of overhyped studies, IBM says U.S. should adopt new export controls on facial recognition systems

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    Sep 17, 2020
    Heartbeat DeepFake Detection, Robot Drug Tests, Ethics as a Service
    20:03

    Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

    This week AI researchers use heartbeat detection to identify deepfake videos, This know-it-all AI learns by reading the entire web nonstop, Google Offers to Help Others With the Tricky Ethics of AI, Robotics, AI, and Cloud Computing Combine to Supercharge Chemical and Drug Synthesis

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    Sep 10, 2020
    DeepFake Ads and Memes, New AI Ethics, and AI for Emergency Response
    28:57

    Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

    This week "Hulu deepfaked its new ad. It won’t be the last.", "Memers are making deepfakes, and things are getting weird" , "The term ‘ethical AI’ is finally starting to mean something", and "The utopian promise and dystopian potential of real-time detection of police, fire, and medical emergencies".

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    Sep 04, 2020
    U.S. Public Opinion about AI with Professor Paul Brewer and co-authors
    38:06

    An interview with Professor Paul Brewer and PhD Students James Bingaman and Ashely Paintsil about their new survey paper "Media Messages and U.S. Public Opinion about Artificial Intelligence" about what the general U.S. public thinks about AI, and how popular media and interaction with new technology shapes it.

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    Sep 02, 2020
    Machine Learning + Procedural Content Generation with Julian Togelius and Sebastian Risi
    47:59

    An interview with Professors Julian Togelius and Sebastian Risi about their new survey paper "Increasing generality in machine learning through procedural content generation", their work at modl.ai, and more!

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    Aug 29, 2020
    Hate Speech, Applied AI, NYPD, & Grades
    26:42

    Our latest roundup of last week's big AI news!

    Plus, Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss the news and offer their thoughts.

    We are trying out this combination of formats for the first time - please fill out the listener survey to let us know what you think about it: bit.ly/ltasurvey

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    Aug 26, 2020
    AI Setting Grades, ICE Pays Clearview, and Much More
    30:10

    Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories. Please fill out the listener survey: bit.ly/ltasurvey

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    Aug 22, 2020
    The Alexa Prize Challenge with Stanford's Abigail See and Ashwin Paranjape
    37:12

    An interview with Stanford AI Lab PhDs Abigal See and Ashwin Paranjape about their involvement with the Alexa Prize Challenge and what it took to enable their chatbot Chirpy Cardinal to take second place.

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    Aug 20, 2020
    Mini Episode: ICE/Clearview, Race Detection and Schools
    06:03

    Our thirteenth audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news!

    This week, we look at the ICE/Clearview AI contract, the growth of race detection software, and how AI is being used to assign students final grades and reopen schools.

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    Aug 16, 2020
    2020, China, Face Recognition, and DeepFakes
    30:12

    Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories, relating to AI's struggles in 2020, Chinese AI surveillance, tools to fight facial recognition, and more!

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    Aug 14, 2020
    Mini Episode: TikTok, Cheap Deepfakes, AI in 2020, and Deference
    06:28

    Our twelfth audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news!

    This week, we look at Microsoft's reasons for the TikTok acquisition, how depefakes are becoming cheaper, AI's struggle to adapt to 2020, and how AI is learning when to defer to humans. 

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    Aug 09, 2020
    BLM, Genderify, Jobs, and AI Parody
    27:05

    Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories, relating to Black Lives Matter, the disaster that was Genderify, possible ways jobs will be lost, and Weird A.I. Yankovic.

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    Aug 07, 2020
    Mini Episode: Two Facial Recognition Stories, A Reckoning for NLP, and ”Self-Programming Computers
    06:02

    Our eleventh audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news!

    This week, we look at two recent stories on facial recognition, why Natural Language Processing researchers might be chasing the wrong goal, and a clickbait headline accompanying an exciting story about automated code generation.

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    Aug 02, 2020
    Mini Episode: AI Fashion Models, AI for Job Hopping, Facebook Simulations, and Weird A.I. Yankovic
    06:19

    Our tenth audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news!

    This week, we look at how AI might threaten fashion models' jobs, how AI is being used to predict job hopping, Facebook's simulations of bad user behavior, and A.I. generated parody songs. 

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    Jul 26, 2020
    GPT-3, Limits of Deep Learning, Deepfakes in the Real World
    33:49

    Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories.

     

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    Jul 26, 2020
    On the State of AI Ethics Report with its authors
    44:25

    An interview with the Founder of the Montreal AI Ethics Institute Abhishek Gupta, as well as fellow AI Ethics researchers Camylle Lanteigne, Muriam Fancy, Ryan Khurana, about their recent State of AI Ethics Report.

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    Jul 24, 2020
    Mini Episode: Pentagon AI, Deep Learning‘s Limits, Discharging Patients, and Robust AI
    06:13

    Our ninth audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news!

    This week, we look at the Pentagon's Joint AI Center, recent research on the computational limits of deep learning, how AI is being used to decide when to discharge patients, and a recent report on robust AI research.

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    Jul 20, 2020
    Therapy Chatbots, AI Ethics at Google, and Higher-Res Climate Data
    31:28

    Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories.

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    Jul 19, 2020
    Creators of "The Gradient" on its Origins and Purpose
    35:14

    A chat among several of the founders of online AI-focused magazine The Gradient (thegradient.pub) about its origins and purpose.

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    Jul 16, 2020
    Mini Episode: AI Therapists, Facial Recognition in Detroit, Decolonialism in AI, and Deepfakes for Corporate Training
    05:45

    Our eighth audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news!

    This week, we look at the rise of AI therapy bots, the fight against facial recognition in Detroit, a paper from DeepMind and Oxford on decolonialism in AI, and how deepfakes are being used for corporate training. 

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    Jul 12, 2020
    ACM on Facial Recognition, National AI Cloud, and Positive DeepFakes
    21:31

    Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories.

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    Jul 10, 2020
    Mini Episode: Redeeming AI, More Lessons in AI Bias, and a National AI Research Cloud
    05:09

    Our seventh audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news!

    This week, we look at how an HBO documentary is using deepfake technology for good, a new system to measure AI's carbon impact, a follow-up from last week's story on Timnit Gebru and Yann LeCun, and finally the push for a national AI research cloud.

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    Jul 05, 2020
    False Facial Recognition, Biased AI Drama, and Neo-Phrenology
    28:04

    Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories.

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    Jul 04, 2020
    Mini Episode: Lessons in AI bias, Facial Recognition Policy and Effects, and Trump‘s Visa Freeze
    04:48

    Our sixth audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news!

    This week, we look at how one deep learning pioneer still seems to have something to learn about AI bias, how facial recognition led to a wrongful arrest and the facial recognition ban being pushed by Democratic lawmakers, and how Trump's Visa freeze could affect the US's AI prospects.

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    Jun 28, 2020
    On Shaping the Global Terrain of AI Competition with Tim Hwang
    45:51

    Stanford AI Lab PhD Andrey Kurenkov interviews Tim Hwang, Research Fellow at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) about his new report “Shaping the Terrain of AI Competition” and more.

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    Jun 25, 2020
    Mini Episode: Startup News, NeurIPS Changes, and US-China Tensions
    03:58

    Our fifth audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news!

    This week, we look at more news from Boston Dynamics, a new MIT startup that wants to help you do deep learning on your CPU, recent changes at NeurIPS, and Baidu's departure from the Partnership on AI.

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    Jun 21, 2020
    The Path to Facial Recognition Reform and Regulation
    14:43

    Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories.

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    Jun 19, 2020
    Mini Episode: More Facial Recognition, Racism in Academia, and the latest in Commercial AI
    04:28

    Our fourth audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news!

    This week, we look at recent progress in curtailing the development of facial recognition technology, a recent call for attention to racism in academia, and recent news from OpenAI and Boston Dynamics. 

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    Jun 14, 2020
    Facial Recognition and Police, Protests, Regulation
    24:07

    Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories.

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    Jun 14, 2020
    Mini Episode: Police Surveillance, Productivity, and Calls for Regulation and Cooperation
    04:22

    Our third audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news!

    This week, we look at the how the police are using surveillance against civil rights protesters, AI for productivity, and recent calls from AI researchers for regulation and cooperation. 

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    Jun 07, 2020
    Black Lives Matter in AI, the Peril of DeepFakes and Fake Progress
    23:06

    Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories.

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    Jun 07, 2020
    Mini Episode: Clearview, the G7, Shopping, and AI-Assisted Journalism
    03:57

    Our second audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news!

    This week, we look at the ACLU's lawsuit against Clearview AI, an international AI group among the G7, how small businesses might begin to use automation, and Microsoft's push towards replacing journalists with AI.

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    May 31, 2020
    More Ethical Quagmires, More Surveillance, and more Academia Talk
    27:03

    Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories.

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    May 31, 2020
    Mini Episode: Self Driving Ignorance, AI Surveillance, Nvidia‘s AI Pacman
    03:40

    Our first audio round up of last week's noteworthy AI news!

    This week, a discussion of peoples' awareness of self driving technology, surveillance by iFlyTek and Clear, and Nvidia's new recreation of Pacman.

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    May 25, 2020
    AI Gets More Efficient, Improves Taxation, and Looks Out For Masks
    26:07

    Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories.

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    May 17, 2020
    Data Science and AI for COVID-19 with Professor James Zou and Dr. Irena Fisher-Hwang
    36:35

    Stanford AI Lab PhD Andrey Kurenkov interviews Professor James Zou and Doctor Irena Fisher-Hwang about their new class CS472: Data Science and AI for COVID-19. See more here: https://sites.google.com/view/data-science-covid-19

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    May 13, 2020
    AI Fails to Read PDFs, OpenAI Jukebox, and more!
    25:46

    Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories.

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    May 09, 2020
    AI Fails to Diagnose COVID-19, Difficulties with AI Regulation, and more on Surveillance
    27:01

    Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories.

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    May 02, 2020
    Mechanisms for AI Safety, Beyond Supervised Learning, and AI for Science
    27:03

    Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories.

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    Apr 26, 2020
    AI News Coverage, Pseudo AI Companies, and more on COVID-19
    26:27

    Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories.

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    Apr 18, 2020
    AI for COVID-19 with Professor Matthew Lungren
    34:12

    Stanford AI Lab PhD Sharon Zhou interviews Professor Matthew Lungren about the efforts to leverage AI to help with the coronavirus crisis, the promise for sharing more medical data as part of those efforts, and more.

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    Apr 15, 2020
    Reading Brain Waves, AI Goliaths, & more on COVID-19
    43:58

    Tired of constantly hearing about COVID-19? So are Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou, who mostly discuss non virus related stories this week... and then some virus related stories.

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    Apr 11, 2020
    Bias in Voice Recognition, Debates in AI, and Robotics in the Time of COVID-19
    38:42

    Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou cover news about bias in commercial voice recognition systems, a debate about the future of AI, and more on what covid 19 shows us about robotics.

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    Apr 04, 2020
    More on AI, COVID-19, and Revised Research Practices
    41:52

    Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou cover more news stories related to how AI helps tackle the coronavirus crisis and how research is changing.

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    Mar 26, 2020
    AI‘s Role in Fighting COVID-19 and in Surveilling Us
    40:46

    Stanford AI Lab PhDs discuss news stories related to how AI helps tackle the coronavirus crisis, and more on mass surveillance.

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    Mar 19, 2020
    Hello World, Surveillance, and New Research Practices
    40:41

    Hello World!

    Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss news stories related to mass-deployment of facial recognition and responsible AI research.

    By the way, we get better in future episodes, we promise!

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    Mar 13, 2020