Episodes

Thursday Oct 21, 2021
Thursday Oct 21, 2021
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 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)

Friday Oct 08, 2021
Friday Oct 08, 2021
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)

Wednesday Sep 15, 2021
Wednesday Sep 15, 2021
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)

Saturday Sep 11, 2021
Saturday Sep 11, 2021
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 agency.
Bias persists in face detection systems from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google
Fun
The time a human-driven car ran over an autonomous robot
These cute electric robots may soon deliver your dinner
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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)

Friday Sep 03, 2021
Friday Sep 03, 2021
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 after one hits visually impaired athlete
Fun
Rise of the robo-drama: Young Vic creates new play using artificial intelligence
Astrobee Will Find Astronauts’ Lost Socks
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Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/131
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Friday Aug 27, 2021
Friday Aug 27, 2021
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 Wide Range of Data and Tasks
EthicsReddit user reverse-engineers what they believe is Apple's solution to flag child sex abuseHow AI-powered Tech Landed Man In Jail With Scant Evidence
FunPhilip Glass on Artificial Intelligence and ArtThe Bouba/Kiki Effect And Sound Symbolism In CLIP
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Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/130
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Friday Aug 20, 2021
Friday Aug 20, 2021
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 System Over Crashes With Emergency Vehicles
Fun
Appreciating the Poetic Misunderstandings of A.I. Art
Boston Dynamics' robots can parkour better than you
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Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/129
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Monday Aug 16, 2021
Monday Aug 16, 2021
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 App, Give You A Deeper Understanding Of Your Cat's Health And Mood
Man defends against package thieves using machine learning AI, flour, and very loud sirens
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Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/128
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Wednesday Aug 11, 2021
Wednesday Aug 11, 2021
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 facial recognition system. Now, it's getting camera-shy.
Twitter announces first algorithmic bias bounty challenge
Say Hello To The Tokyo Olympic Robots
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Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/127
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Sunday Aug 01, 2021
Sunday Aug 01, 2021
Our 100th episode! Given this event, we have a short discussion among the hosts of the podcasts. Hope you enjoy!
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Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)