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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

38:52

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

25:45

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

31:13

Rephrase.ai, MuJoCo, AI in Audacity, Illegal AI Porn...

Last Week in AI ·

2021/10/28

Our 75th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Check our text version of this news roundup over at lastweekin.ai. This week: This startup is creating personalized deepfakes for corporations Inside Mailchimp’s push to bring AI to content marketing What MuJoCo’s acquisition means for DeepMind’s AI & robotics research Yann LeCun Team Challenges Current Beliefs on Interpolation and Extrapolation Regarding DL Model Generalization Performance Deep Learning Tools for

31:57

Waymo‘s Taxi Struggles, Robot Surveillance in...

Last Week in AI ·

2021/10/22

Our 74th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Check our text version of this news roundup over at lastweekin.ai. This week: Applications Waymo's self-driving taxi struggles with left turns and puddles. But it's still winning over some Arizona riders How AI can fight human trafficking Research AI Analysis of 100,000 Climate Studies Reveals How Massive The Crisis Already Is Google Researchers Explore the Limits of Large-Scale Model Pretraining Ethics New robots

30:00

DeepMind‘s Rain Nowcasting, OpenAI‘s Book...

Last Week in AI ·

2021/10/08

Our 73rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Applications First AI Pathology Program Approved: Helps Detect Prostate Cancer Adobe Lightroom is getting more powerful with AI-based selection tool Research DeepMind’s AI predicts almost exactly when and where it’s going to rain Summarizing Books with Human Feedback Ethics AI’s Islamophobia problem MIT study finds Tesla drivers become inattentive when Autopilot is activated Fun Amazon’s Astro Is a Mobile Alexa

37:53

AI for climate modeling, Deepfakes are here, Boston...

Last Week in AI ·

2021/09/15

Our 72st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Article picks: Applications New Algorithm Can Identify Pre-Alzheimer's Brain Changes With Over 99% Accuracy Columbia to Launch $25 Million AI-based Climate Modeling Center Research Machine learning technique detects phishing sites based on markup visualization Stanford’s BEHAVIOR Benchmarks 100 Activities From Everyday Life for Embodied AI Ethics Deepfakes in cyberattacks aren’t coming. They’re already here. Sharing

29:04

AI for lonely people, GPT-3 is toxic, Tesla...

Last Week in AI ·

2021/09/11

Our 71st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: Applications Always there': the AI chatbot comforting China's lonely millions AI startups claim to detect depression from speech, but the jury’s out on their accuracy Research GPT-3 mimics human love for ‘offensive’ Reddit comments, study finds AI Researchers Introduce A Graph Neural Network Estimator for ETA Prediction at Google Maps Ethics Tesla is ordered to turn over Autopilot data to a federal safety

30:04

AI for Spreadsheets, Hospital Robots, NLP...

Last Week in AI ·

2021/09/03

Our 70th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: Applications Google Sheets’ formula suggestions are like autofill for math More than 50 robots are working at Singapore's high-tech hospital Research Challenges and Opportunities in NLP Benchmarking Google Brain Uncovers Representation Structure Differences Between CNNs and Vision Transformers Ethics “Flying in the Dark”: Hospital AI Tools Aren’t Well Documented Toyota pauses Paralympics self-driving buses

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

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