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40:20

Tesla Bot, AI Val Kilmer, DeepMind‘s Perceiver IO,...

Last Week in AI ·

2021/08/27

Our 69th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: Applications Elon Musk unveils 'Tesla bot,' a humanoid robot that would be made from Tesla's self-driving AI AI gave Val Kilmer his voice back. But critics worry the technology could be misused. Research 100+ Standford Researchers Publish 200+ Page Paper on the AI Paradigm Shift Introduced by Large-Scale Models DeepMind Open-Sources Perceiver IO, A General-Purpose Deep Learning Model Architecture That Handles A

37:44

OpenAI‘s Codex Update, Boston Dynamics Parkour,...

Last Week in AI ·

2021/08/20

Our 68th Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: publications OpenAI can translate English into code with its new Codex Cattle-ist for the Future: Plainsight Revolutionizes Livestock Management with AI Research Without Code for DeepMind’s Protein AI, This Lab Wrote Its Own Artificial Intelligence may diagnose dementia in a day Ethics Twitter AI bias contest shows beauty filters hoodwink the algorithm U.S. Will Investigate Tesla’s Autopilot

31:43

Fabricated AI Research, AI Phishing Emails, AI...

Last Week in AI ·

2021/08/16

Our 67th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: A new generation of AI-powered robots is taking over warehouses With a nudge from AI, ketamine emerges as a potential rare disease treatment Tortured phrases' give away fabricated research papers Fast, Efficient Neural Networks Copy Dragonfly Brains AI Wrote Better Phishing Emails Than Humans in a Recent Test These Algorithms Look at X-Rays' and Somehow Detect Your Race Tably, An AI-Powered Camera

23:43

Malware in AI models, Algorithmic Bias Bounty, Robot...

Last Week in AI ·

2021/08/11

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

15:58

Our 100th episode! A look back with hosts Andrey,...

Last Week in AI ·

2021/08/02

Our 100th episode! Given this event, we have a short discussion among the hosts of the podcasts. Hope you enjoy! And please fill out this survey Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

35:36

AI in the US State and Federal Governments with the...

Last Week in AI ·

2021/07/28

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

25:18

DeepMind‘s AlphaFold 2, Voice Cloning, Facial...

Last Week in AI ·

2021/07/26

Our 65th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: The future of self-driving? Maybe less like Elon Musk and more like Domino's pizza robots DeepMind's AI for protein structure is coming to the masses Reasoning with Language Models and Knowledge Graphs for Question Answering AI now enables robots to adapt rapidly to changing real world conditions Voice clone of Anthony Bourdain prompts synthetic media ethics questions Retail stores are packed

43:01

Reflecting on AI news in 2021 (so far) with the host...

Last Week in AI ·

2021/07/21

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

25:07

AI for Shaming Politicians, the New AI Art Scene,...

Last Week in AI ·

2021/07/16

Our 64th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news This week: This AI publicly shames politicians, but don’t laugh just yet AI-Generated Art Scene Explodes as Hackers Create Groundbreaking New Tools What A Long, Strange Trip It's Been: EleutherAI One Year Retrospective YouTube’s recommender AI still a horrorshow, finds major crowdsourced study Attackers use ‘offensive AI’ to create deepfakes for phishing campaigns Elon Musk admits self-driving is harder

25:33

An AI Serial Killer, Scary Good Voice AI, Robot Rock,...

Last Week in AI ·

2021/07/09

Our 63rd Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube This week: Voice AI is scary good now. Video game actors hate it. Robot rock: can big tech pick pop’s next megastar? Study finds that few major AI research papers consider negative impacts Researchers turn to machine learning to predict when immunotherapy will be effective Amazon is using algorithms with little human intervention to fire Flex

34:26

Sean McGregor on the AI Incident Database and the AI...

Last Week in AI ·

2021/07/06

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. Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

39:14

AI for COVID detection fails, GitHub's Copilot can...

Last Week in AI ·

2021/07/01

Our 62nd 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. This week: Google Survey Explores Methods for Making DL Models ‘Smaller, Faster, and Better’ Machine learning models that detect COVID-19 on chest X-rays are not suitable for clinical

53:05

Jordan Harrod on being an AI researcher and educator

Last Week in AI ·

2021/06/29

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. Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Check out her channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/JordanHarrod 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

23:16

Making AI Less Racist and Terrible, AI for Wildfires...

Last Week in AI ·

2021/06/24

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

28:00

DeepMind on General AI, Creepy Fake Humans, City Brains

Last Week in AI ·

2021/06/17

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

25:27

Is GPT-3 Dissapointing, Killer Robots (?), the AI...

Last Week in AI ·

2021/06/10

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

39:02

Blatant Academic Fraud, OpenAI's New Sibling, a...

Last Week in AI ·

2021/06/04

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

34:42

GPT-Neo, Wav2Vec-U, Deepfake Dubs, Michelangelo AI,...

Last Week in AI ·

2021/05/28

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

54:19

Janelle Shane on the Weirdness of AI

Last Week in AI ·

2021/05/25

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,

26:22

Elon Musk's Self Driving Claims, AI Ethics at Google,...

Last Week in AI ·

2021/05/20

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

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