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#93 - Chip Startup Funding Doubled, Google...

Last Week in AI ·

2022/04/21

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 new

36:45

#92 - OpenAI’s DALL-E 2, Google’s PaLM, AI Intel in...

Last Week in AI ·

2022/04/17

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 benefit

50:02

#91 - DeepMind Mafia, DishBrain, PRIME, ZooKeeper AI,...

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2022/03/31

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 &

30:15

#90 - AI for Algorithms, Chemical Weapons, Zelenskyy...

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2022/03/24

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

50:36

Deepfakes for Politicians, AI Propaganda, Operation...

Last Week in AI ·

2022/03/17

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

47:17

AI-Developed Drug, AI Beats Moore’s Law, Russia’s AI...

Last Week in AI ·

2022/03/10

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

39:59

AI flirts, controls a fusion reactor, unmasks Q,...

Last Week in AI ·

2022/02/24

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

29:07

AI for Ancient Languages, Eye Tracking for Ads,...

Last Week in AI ·

2022/02/17

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

30:51

IBM Watson’s and ZIllow’s AI Failures, DeepMind’s...

Last Week in AI ·

2022/02/10

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

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OpenAI’s InstructGPT, Meta’s New AI Supercomputer,...

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2022/02/06

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

37:41

AI for Omicron, Self-Farming Farms, AI-designed beer,...

Last Week in AI ·

2022/01/22

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 by

49:27

Looking Back at AI in 2021 with Jeremie from Towards...

Last Week in AI ·

2022/01/06

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

30:00

Create AI art with an app, an AI-powered game...

Last Week in AI ·

2022/01/01

Happy new year! Our last episode of 2021 is also our 82th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Outline: Intro This AI-powered art app lets you paint pictures with words AI Dungeon’s creators are launching an experimental AI-powered game platform Announcing the Transactions on Machine Learning Research Bigger’s Not Always Better: DeepMind’s New Language AI Is Small But Mighty 2021 was the year of monster AI models U.N. talks adjourn without deal to regulate ‘killer

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AI Best Friends, The Beatles + Machine Learning,...

Last Week in AI ·

2021/12/16

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

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AI for Mathematicians, Timnit Gebru‘s New Research...

Last Week in AI ·

2021/12/10

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

23:00

Robots at Google Offices, AI-Powered Writing, AI...

Last Week in AI ·

2021/11/25

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

52:39

Chat about Teaching AI at Stanford with Abigail See

Last Week in AI ·

2021/11/23

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)

32:14

Record High AI Funding, AfriBERTa, Facial Recognition...

Last Week in AI ·

2021/11/19

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’

34:11

Facebook Shuts Down Facial Recognition, Google Wants...

Last Week in AI ·

2021/11/11

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

24:55

AI for Game Mods and Moderation, Tesla‘s Beta...

Last Week in AI ·

2021/11/04

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

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