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22:49

Clearview AI in the Capitol, Medical AI Regulation,...

Last Week in AI ·

2021/01/21

Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: Use of Clearview AI facial recognition tech spiked as law enforcement seeks to identify Capitol mob FDA issues action plan for regulating AI in medical devices Google trained a trillion-parameter AI language model AI-Powered Text From This Program Could Fool the Government 0:00 - 0:35 Intro 0:35 - 4:30 News Summary segment 4:30 News Discussion segment Find this and more in our text version of this news

34:22

OpenAI‘s Image Models, US‘s New Provisions for AI,...

Last Week in AI ·

2021/01/14

Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: This avocado armchair could be the future of AI For Its Latest Trick, OpenAI’s GPT-3 Generates Images From Text Captions Summary of AI Provisions from the National Defense Authorization Act 2021 AI algorithms detect diabetic eye disease inconsistently Research highlights from an unprecedented year at NeurIPS 0:00 - 0:35 Intro 0:35 - 4:45 News Summary segment 4:45 News Discussion segment Find this and

22:50

NY‘s moratorium on facial recognition, deepfakes in...

Last Week in AI ·

2021/01/07

Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: Google tolds its scientists to ‘strike a positive tone’ in AI research - documents Facial-Recognition Tools in Spotlight in New Jersey False Arrest Case The year deepfakes went mainstream 13 acquisitions highlight Big Tech’s AI talent grab in 2020 AI Startups Raised $9.9B in second half of 2020, a 15% Jump 0:00 - 0:40 Intro 0:40 - 4:00 News Summary segment 4:00 News Discussion segment Find this and more

59:18

A narrowing of AI research? with Juan Mateos-Garcia

Last Week in AI ·

2020/12/12

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. Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Check out coverage of similar

23:13

The firing of Dr.Timnit Gebru, AlphaFold, and Unions...

Last Week in AI ·

2020/12/10

Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: Google Researcher Says She Was Fired Over Paper Highlighting Bias in A.I. AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology Labor Unions Work to Find Ways to Bargain With AI's Black Box 0:00 - 0:40 Intro 0:40 - 4:40 News Summary segment 4:40 News Discussion segment Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/94 Music: Deliberate Thought,

24:56

The De-democratization of AI: Deep Learning and the...

Last Week in AI ·

2020/12/05

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”. Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Check out coverage of similar topics at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

42:59

To PhD or not to PhD, AI Bias, Facial Recognition...

Last Week in AI ·

2020/12/03

Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: Why you shouldn’t get your Ph.D. Why you should get your PhD Can We Make Our Robots Less Biased Than We Are? How AI bots and voice assistants reinforce gender bias Training AI algorithms on mostly smiling faces reduces accuracy and introduces bias, according to research Facial-recognition research needs an ethical reckoning I asked GPT-3 for the question to “42”. I didn’t like its answer

29:57

Machine Learning for Art with Google's Emil Wallner

Last Week in AI ·

2020/11/28

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. Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Check out coverage of similar topics at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod

30:43

The way we train AI is fundamentally flawed, bias,...

Last Week in AI ·

2020/11/26

Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: The way we train AI is fundamentally flawed Facebook’s improved AI isn’t preventing harmful content from spreading When AI Sees a Man, It Thinks ‘Official.’ A Woman? ‘Smile’ AI research finds a ‘compute divide’ concentrates power and accelerates inequality in the era of deep learning 0:00 - 0:40 Intro 0:40 - 4:20 News Summary segment 4:20 News Discussion segment Find this and more in our text version of

10:27

AI‘s replication crisis, reddit discussions,...

Last Week in AI ·

2020/11/19

Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: AI is wrestling with a replication crisis The US Government Will Pay Doctors to Use These AI Algorithms An ICLR submission is given a Clear Rejection (Score: 3) rating because the benchmark it proposed requires MuJoCo, a commercial software package, thus making RL research less accessible for underrepresented groups. What do you think? How do you find the motivation to keep doing ML? Is there a ML

29:26

Geoff Hinton‘s Hot Take, Robots in Walmart and Art,...

Last Week in AI ·

2020/11/13

Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: AI pioneer Geoff Hinton: “Deep learning is going to be able to do everything” Walmart Scraps Plan to Have Robots Scan Shelves 2020 AI survey: Confidence in artificial intelligence expands as health industry leaders project faster return on investment Artist Sougwen Chung wanted collaborators. So she designed and built her own AI robots. 0:00 - 0:40 Intro 0:40 - 5:00 News Summary segment 5:00 News

33:15

OpenAI's "Scaling Laws for Autoregressive Generative...

Last Week in AI ·

2020/11/08

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. Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Check out coverage of similar topics at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

31:56

Yann LeCun on GPT-3, New Google Projects, Inequality,...

Last Week in AI ·

2020/11/05

NOTE: audio for andrey is a bit rough this week, sorry! Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: The “Godfather of AI” Just Trashed GPT-3 AI agreement to enhance environmental monitoring, weather prediction Mayo Clinic, Google Focus on AI Effort for Cancer Care Inequality grows in AI research How I used GPT-3 to hit Hacker News front page 5 times in 3 weeks I Asked AI to Write This Post for Me. Here Are the Results. 0:00 - 0:40 Intro 0:40 - 5:00

29:23

DeepNude Bot, Tesla Full Self Driving, Google AI...

Last Week in AI ·

2020/10/29

Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! 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 0:00 - 0:40 Intro 0:40 - 5:40 News Summary segment 5:40 News Discussion segment Find this and more in our text version of this news

35:57

The Top Myths About AI

Last Week in AI ·

2020/10/25

An interview with Daniel Leufer and Alexa Steinbrück about their project AIMyths.org. Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Check out coverage of similar topics at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

22:04

Accessible AI, Partnership on AI, Dataset...

Last Week in AI ·

2020/10/22

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, 0:00 - 0:40 Intro 0:40 - 5:40 News Summary segment 5:40 News Discussion segment Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:

51:58

Measurement in AI Policy: Opportunities and Challenges

Last Week in AI ·

2020/10/20

An interview with Jack Clark and Raymond Perrault about their recent paper Measurement in AI Policy: Opportunities and Challenges. Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Check out coverage of similar topics at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

22:00

GPT-3 on reddit, Facial Recognition in Argentina,...

Last Week in AI ·

2020/10/15

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 0:00 - 0:40 Intro 0:40 - 5:00 News Summary segment 5:00 News Discussion segment Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://www.skynettoday.com/digests/the-eighty-sixth Music: Deliberate

29:02

Working With Robots in a Post-Pandemic World

Last Week in AI ·

2020/10/10

An interview with Professor Matt Beane about his recent paper Working With Robots in a Post-Pandemic World, co-authored with Professor Erik Brynjolfsson. Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Check out coverage of similar topics at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

17:24

DeepFake Dictators, AI Sepsis Watch, Biased Exam...

Last Week in AI ·

2020/10/08

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 0:00 - 0:40 Intro 0:40 - 5:00 News Summary segment 5:00 News Discussion segment Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:

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