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Last Week in AI

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#102 - Nonsense Sentience, Condemning GPT-4chan,...

Last Week in AI ·

2022/06/26

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 &

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#101 - GPT-4chan, ’Sentient’ AI, Tesla Crash Probe,...

Last Week in AI ·

2022/06/17

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

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#100 - Depression, Energy Grid, MRI, Astronomy, DALLE...

Last Week in AI ·

2022/06/08

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

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#99 - Drone Mail Delivery, Human-Robot Teamwork,...

Last Week in AI ·

2022/06/02

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

46:33

#98 - Autonomous Boats, DeepMind’s General AI,...

Last Week in AI ·

2022/05/28

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 Neo

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#97 - New Google AI Features, Enzyme Discovery,...

Last Week in AI ·

2022/05/18

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, Maps

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#96 - FDA Clearances, Firing at Google AI, AI for...

Last Week in AI ·

2022/05/13

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

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#95 - AI Kills Cookie Pop-Ups, Models Volcanoes,...

Last Week in AI ·

2022/05/05

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) Lighting

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#94 - AI Driving Instructors, MASSIVE Speech Dataset,...

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2022/04/29

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 AI

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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

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#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

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#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 &

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

Last Week in AI ·

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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,...

Last Week in AI ·

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

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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

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