Last Week in AI

Check out this special crossover episode with the AI Today podcast, the hosts of which Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer discuss pressing topics around artificial intelligence, interview guests and experts on the subject, and cut through the hype around AI.
For this crossover episode, we thought it’d be fun to chat about some of the topics that have recently been covered on the AI Today podcast, in particular what has been happening with AI in government.
Specifically, we discuss:
Challenges in Federal AI Adoption Interview with Justin Marsico, Chief Data Officer at the Bureau Of The Fiscal Service
AI Center of Excellence in the US Federal Government - Interview with Neil Chaudhry, GSA
Data and AI at the State level, interview with Joy Bonaguro, CDO State of California
Data and AI in the state of North Dakota, Interview with Dorman Bazzell, CDO of North Dakota
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Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Our 65th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
The future of self-driving? Maybe less like Elon Musk and more like Domino's pizza robots
DeepMind's AI for protein structure is coming to the masses
Reasoning with Language Models and Knowledge Graphs for Question Answering
AI now enables robots to adapt rapidly to changing real world conditions
Voice clone of Anthony Bourdain prompts synthetic media ethics questions
Retail stores are packed with unchecked facial recognition, civil rights organizations say
Google CEO Still Insists AI Revolution Bigger Than Invention of Fire
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Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/125
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

2021 has been a bit less crazy than 2020 so far, but plenty of notable stuff has already happened. So, we decided to partner with our friends over at the Towards Data Science podcast, hosted by co-founder of ShapestMinds Jeremie Harris.Specifically, we discuss:This avocado armchair could be the future of AI, For Its Latest Trick
Facial-Recognition Tools in Spotlight in New Jersey False Arrest Case
New' Nirvana Song Created 27 Years After Kurt Cobain's Death Via AI Software
As well as the general trends these stories represent.
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Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Our 64th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news
This week:
This AI publicly shames politicians, but don’t laugh just yet
AI-Generated Art Scene Explodes as Hackers Create Groundbreaking New Tools
What A Long, Strange Trip It's Been: EleutherAI One Year Retrospective
YouTube’s recommender AI still a horrorshow, finds major crowdsourced study
Attackers use ‘offensive AI’ to create deepfakes for phishing campaigns
Elon Musk admits self-driving is harder than he thought as Tesla owners troll him over missed deadlines
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Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/124
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Our 63rd Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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This week:
Voice AI is scary good now. Video game actors hate it.
Robot rock: can big tech pick pop’s next megastar?
Study finds that few major AI research papers consider negative impacts
Researchers turn to machine learning to predict when immunotherapy will be effective
Amazon is using algorithms with little human intervention to fire Flex workers
Israel used world's first AI-guided combat drone swarm in Gaza attacks
Google's algorithm misidentified an engineer as a serial killer
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/123
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

An interview with Sean McGregor, the ML architect at the neural accelerator startup Syntiant who also works with the XPRIZE Foundation and is the creator and maintainer of the Partnership on AI's Incident Database.
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Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Our 62nd Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! On this episode, more controllable GAN, more controllable language models, AI for wildfires and reading lips, being critical of human oversight of AI, surveillance by AI in China, and some fun AI weirdness.
This week:
Google Survey Explores Methods for Making DL Models ‘Smaller, Faster, and Better’
Machine learning models that detect COVID-19 on chest X-rays are not suitable for clinical use
GitHub and OpenAI launch a new AI tool that generates its own code
What’s Going on With Amazon’s “High-Tech” Warehouse Robots?
How Twitter hired tech's biggest critics to build ethical AI
LinkedIn’s job-matching AI was biased. The company’s solution? More AI.
GAN Theft Auto is a snippet of GTA 5 made by AI
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/122
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

An interview with Jordan Harrod, a PhD Candidate in the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology program, a YouTuber who creates educational videos about AI, and an advocate for evidence-based policy.
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Check out her channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/JordanHarrod
Detailed bio: Jordan Harrod is a Ph.D. Candidate in Medical Engineering and Medical Physics at the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology program. Her research focuses on using neuromodulation to understand pain and consciousness, and using neurotechnology and machine learning to develop new tools for brain stimulation. She is also a significant communicator and educator focused on AI, with her YouTube channel having many videos on how we interact with artificial intelligence in our daily lives, and she is also the Chief Operating Officer of the MIT Science Policy Review, a peer-reviewed science policy journal.
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Our 61st Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! On this episode, more controllable GAN, more controllable language models, AI for wildfires and reading lips, being critical of human oversight of AI, surveillance by AI in China, and some fun AI weirdness.
Check out our interview with the creator of AI Weirdness (that we discuss as our last article) here:https://www.letstalkai.show/e/ai-weirdness-interview/
This week:
Harnessing the Wild Power of AI Image Generation
The Efforts to Make Text-Based AI Less Racist and Terrible
AI Could Spot Wildfires Faster Than Humans
Tech Companies Are Training AI to Read Your Lips
The False Comfort of Human Oversight as an Antidote to A.I. Harm
China's tech workers pushed to limits by surveillance software
Fun Facts about Fun Guys
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/121
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Our 60th Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! On this episode, new ways to scale training, a take on RL being enough, care bots, creepy fake humans, AI for AI chips, City Brains in China, and cheaper robot dogs.
This week:
Microsoft’s ZeRO-Infinity Library Claims to Train 32 trillion Parameters Deep Learning Models On A Cluster of Just 32 GPUs
DeepMind scientists: Reinforcement learning is enough for general AI
‘Care bots’ are on the rise and replacing human caregivers
These creepy fake humans herald a new age in AI
Google is using AI to design its next generation of AI chips more quickly than humans can
Across China, AI ‘city brains’ are changing how the government runs
This $2,700 robot dog will carry a single bottle of water for you
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/120
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)