Last Week in AI

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.
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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 segment4:40 News Discussion segment
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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”.
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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 and neither will you.
Meet GPT-3. It Has Learned to Code (and Blog and Argue).
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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.
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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 segment4:20 News Discussion segment
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/92
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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 community "blind eye" toward the negative impact of FAANG recommendation algorithms on global society?
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Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
AI pioneer Geoff Hinton: “Deep learning is going to be able to do everything”
Walmart Scraps Plan to Have Robots Scan Shelves
2020 AI survey: Confidence in artificial intelligence expands as health industry leaders project faster return on investment
Artist Sougwen Chung wanted collaborators. So she designed and built her own AI robots.
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An interview with Tom Henighan, a member of the technical staff at OpenAI working on the safety team, about the recent paper “Scaling Laws for Autoregressive Generative Modeling” that he co-authored with many others at OpenAI.
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NOTE: audio for andrey is a bit rough this week, sorry!
Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
The “Godfather of AI” Just Trashed GPT-3
AI agreement to enhance environmental monitoring, weather prediction
Mayo Clinic, Google Focus on AI Effort for Cancer Care
Inequality grows in AI research
How I used GPT-3 to hit Hacker News front page 5 times in 3 weeks
I Asked AI to Write This Post for Me. Here Are the Results.
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