Last Week in AI

Our 80th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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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 knots(11:06) Yale researchers combat biases in machine learning algorithms(13:40) Ex-Googler Timnit Gebru Starts Her Own AI Research Center(17:20) US rejects calls for regulating or banning ‘killer robots(19:50) Who, exactly, authored this AI-generated spin on Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo?  (25:00) Outro
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Our 79th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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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 Writer nabs $21M(07:03) A Leap Forward in Computer Vision: Facebook AI Says Masked Autoencoders Are Scalable Vision Learners(09:27) Research Professor Adji Bousso Dieng Is Out to Change the World With AI(11:42) A Utah company says it’s revolutionized truth-telling technology. Experts are highly skeptical(13:45) South Korea is Selling Millions of Photos To Facial Recognition Researchers(16:00) AWS makes AI and machine learning tangible with first major art debut at Smithsonian(19:00) ‘Paint Me a Picture’: NVIDIA Research Shows GauGAN AI Art Demo Now Responds to Words(21:45) OutroMusic: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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.
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Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Our 78th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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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’ For African Languages Using Deep Learning Techniques  (12:40) AI skin cancer diagnoses risk being less accurate for dark skin – study(16:55) Israel escalates surveillance of Palestinians with facial recognition program in West Bank(22:15) Tesla vehicle in ‘Full Self-Driving’ beta mode ‘severely damaged’ after crash in California(26:15) CMU opens first AI maker space to let students 'sharpen the cutting edge of AI'(28:25) Machine Learning Shushes Stressed Dogs(31:05) Outro
 
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Our 77th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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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 Classification
(18:28) Facebook, Citing Societal Concerns, Plans to Shut Down Facial Recognition System
(21:40) Google Wants to Work With the Pentagon Again, Despite Employee Concerns
(25:50) Australia Ordered Clearview AI to Destroy its Database, As Its Violating Privacy Laws 
(27:54) AIBA uses AI technology to vet judges and refs at Belgrade worlds
(30:40) Miso Introduces Second Generation Restaurant Kitchen Robot, the Flippy 2
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Our 76th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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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 makers
Clearview AI finally takes part in a federal accuracy test.
Tesla pulled the latest FSD Beta from owners’ cars today 
ruDALL-E: generating images from text descriptions, or the largest computational project in Russia
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Our 75th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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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 Audacity
A Harvard freshman made a social networking app called 'The FaceTag.' It's sparked a debate about the ethics of facial recognition.
Man Arrested for Unblurring Japanese Porn With AI in First Deepfake Case
Scientists Built an AI to Give Ethical Advice, But It Turned Out Super Racist
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Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Our 74th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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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 patrolling for 'anti-social behaviour' causing unease in Singapore streets
Singapore sends Xavier the robot to help police keep streets safe under three-week trial
Are Under-Curated Hyperscale AI Datasets Worse Than The Internet Itself?
Fun
Dead-End SF Street Plagued With Confused Waymo Cars Trying To Turn Around ‘Every 5 Minutes’
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Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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 and Cup Holder that Costs $1k
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Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/136
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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 learnings from the first algorithmic bias bounty challenge
Fun
Could Robots From Boston Dynamics Beat Me in a Fight?
iRobot’s newest Roomba uses AI to avoid dog poop
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Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/132
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)