Last Week in AI

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)

Our 59th Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
GPT-3: a disappointing paper
NYU, Facebook & CIFAR Present ‘True Few-Shot Learning’ for Language Models Whose Few-Shot Ability They Say Is Overestimated
Google Ventures-backed Merlin Labs is building AI that can fly planes
Self-Driving Truck Completes 950-Mile Trip 10 Hours Faster Than Human Driver
King County is first in the country to ban facial recognition software
Have autonomous robots started killing in war?
Don't End Up on This Artificial Intelligence Hall of Shame
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/119
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Our 58th Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
Rebel AI group raises record cash after machine learning schism
OpenAI launches $100 million startup fund with Microsoft
Please Commit More Blatant Academic Fraud
AI Could Soon Write Code Based on Ordinary Language
All together now: the most trustworthy covid-19 model is an ensemble
AI Can Write Disinformation Now—and Dupe Human Readers
A rogue killer drone 'hunted down' a human target without being instructed to, UN report says
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/118
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Our 57 Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
GPT-3’s free alternative GPT-Neo is something to be excited about
Facebook Wav2vec-U learns to recognize speech from unlabeled data
Deepfake dubs could help translate film and TV without losing an actor's original performance
Quizzing Michelangelo AI
History of Ethical AI at Google
Sharing learnings about our image cropping algorithm
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/117
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

An interview with Janelle Shane, the creator of aiweirdness.com and author of 'You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How AI Works and Why It’s Making the World a Weirder Place'.
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Janelle Shane works as a research scientist in Colorado, where she makes computer-controlled holograms for studying the brain, and other light-steering devices. She is also a self-described A. I. Humorist - on aiweirdness.com, she writes about AI and the sometimes hilarious, sometimes unsettling ways that algorithms get things wrong. Her work has also been featured in the New York Times, The Atlantic, WIRED, Popular Science, and more, AND she has also given the TED talk “The danger of AI is weirder than you think” in 2019.
Her book, “You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How AI Works and Why It’s Making the World a Weirder Place” uses cartoons and humorous pop-culture experiments to look inside the minds of the algorithms that run our world, making artificial intelligence and machine learning both accessible and entertaining.
Check out coverage of similar topics at www.skynettoday.com
Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Our 56th Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
Google Plans to Double AI Ethics Research Staff
Grand Theft Auto Looks Frighteningly Photorealistic With This Machine Learning Technique
The Pentagon Inches Toward Letting AI Control Weapons
Tesla privately admits Elon Musk has been exaggerating about ‘full self-driving’
    Tesla in fatal California crash may have been in autopilot mode, officials say
    DMV probing whether Tesla violates state regulations with self-driving claims
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/116
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Our 55th Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
China makes "world's largest satellite image database" to train AI better
How to stop AI from recognizing your face in selfies
It Began As an AI-Fueled Dungeon Game. It Got Much Darker
The autonomous vehicle world is shrinking — it’s overdue
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/114
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Our 54th Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
Rethinking large conferences
Google and UC Berkeley Propose Green Strategies for Large Neural Network Training
Huawei trained the Chinese-language equivalent of GPT-3
Farming Robot Kills 100,000 Weeds per Hour With Lasers
Lyft sells self-driving unit to Toyota’s Woven Planet for $550M
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/114
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)