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36:14

AI Nirvana Song, Facebook Fairness Dataset, No-Code AI

Last Week in AI ·

2021/04/16

Our 51st Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: Shedding light on fairness in AI with a new data set Government audit of AI with ties to white supremacy finds no AI Companies are racing to bring A.I. to the masses with no code software New' Nirvana Song Created 27 Years After Kurt Cobain's Death Via AI Software Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/111 Music: Deliberate Thought,

59:17

The Pioneers of Modern AI with Cade Metz, author of...

Last Week in AI ·

2021/04/12

An interview with Cade Metz, a New York Times reporter covering artificial intelligence, driverless cars, robotics, virtual reality, and other emerging areas. Previously, he was a senior staff writer with Wired magazine and the U.S. editor of The Register, one of Britain’s leading science and technology news sites. His first book, "Genius Makers", tells the stories of the The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World. Get the book: http://bit.ly/GeniusMakers Follow Cade on

31:32

Boston Dynamics, DeepFake Amazon Workers, Systematic...

Last Week in AI ·

2021/04/11

Our 50th Last Week in AI episode! With some exciting news and our usual news coverage. Enjoy our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: Google AI Research Manager Quits After Two Ousted From Group Robots of the future at Boston Dynamics Silicon Valley leaders think AI will fund cash handouts Deepfake Amazon workers sowing confusion on twitter MIT study finds systematic labeling errors in popular AI benchmark datasets Find this and more in

34:19

AI Growth, OpenAI's Smart Neurons, Disease Sniffing AI

Last Week in AI ·

2021/03/11

Our 49th Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: The 2021 AI Index: Major Growth Despite the Pandemic Multimodal Neurons in Artificial Neural Networks Meet the AI algorithms that judge how beautiful you are AI system can sniff out diseases as well as dogs do Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/106 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

24:41

GPT-3 NPCs, Rebel AI Startups, A Cute AI Book

Last Week in AI ·

2021/03/09

Our 48th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: This OpenAI GPT-3 Powered Demo Is A Glimpse of NPCs In The Future Band of AI startups launch ‘rebel alliance’ for interoperability An AI is training counselors to deal with teens in crisis This cute book explains AI to children, without scary Terminators Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/105 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod

27:19

More Unethical AI Research, More Google Drama, More...

Last Week in AI ·

2021/02/26

Our 47th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: The AI Research Paper Was Real. The "Coauthor" Wasn't Clearview AI’s plan for invasive facial recognition is worse than you think This AI-powered gadget could completely disrupt the ridiculous hearing aid market Google reshuffles AI team leadership after researcher’s controversial departure Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/104 Music: Deliberate

24:00

AI Against COVID 19, Regulating DeepFake Porn, the...

Last Week in AI ·

2021/02/18

Our 46th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: Georgia Startup Races to Complete AI-powered Voice Screening Tool to Crush COVID-19 New AI tool can thwart coronavirus mutations Deepfake porn is ruining women’s lives. Now the law may finally end it. 0:00 - 0:30 Intro 0:30 - 5:15 News Summary segment 5:15 News Discussion segment Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/103 Music: Deliberate

25:21

Facial Recognition and Privacy, Amazon AI Cameras, AI...

Last Week in AI ·

2021/02/11

Our 45th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: This is how we lost control of our faces Here’s a Way to Learn if Facial Recognition Systems Used Your Photos Amazon faces spying claims over AI cameras in vans AI in health care creates unique data challenges 0:00 - 0:30 Intro 0:30 - 4:30 News Summary segment 4:30 News Discussion segment Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/101 Music: Deliberate

25:00

Detecting Surveillance, Autonomous Weapons, National...

Last Week in AI ·

2021/02/04

Our 44th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: These crowdsourced maps will show exactly where surveillance cameras are watching US commission cites ‘moral imperative’ to explore AI weapons Why the OECD wants to calculate the AI compute needs of national governments An AI saw a cropped photo of AOC. It autocompleted her wearing a bikini. 0:00 - 0:35 Intro 0:35 - 5:00 News Summary segment 5:99 News Discussion segment Find this and more in our text

37:02

Bad Uses of AI, Google and Margaret Mitchell, AI for...

Last Week in AI ·

2021/01/28

Jan 20th, 2021 by Chatbot Gone Awry Starts Conversations About AI Ethics in South Korea Google Sidelines Second Artificial Intelligence Researcher This App Claims It Can Detect ‘Trustworthiness.’ It Can’t AI could make healthcare fairer--by helping us believe what patients say 0:00 - 0:35 Intro 0:35 - 5:25 News Summary segment 5:25 News Discussion segment Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/100 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin

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

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