Last Week in AI

An interview with Cade Metz, a New York Times reporter covering artificial intelligence, driverless cars, robotics, virtual reality, and other emerging areas. Previously, he was a senior staff writer with Wired magazine and the U.S. editor of The Register, one of Britain’s leading science and technology news sites. His first book, "Genius Makers", tells the stories of the The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World.
Get the book: http://bit.ly/GeniusMakers​ Follow Cade on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CadeMetz/​ And on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cademetz/
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Our 50th Last Week in AI episode! With some exciting news and our usual news coverage. Enjoy our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
Google AI Research Manager Quits After Two Ousted From Group
Robots of the future at Boston Dynamics
Silicon Valley leaders think AI will fund cash handouts
Deepfake Amazon workers sowing confusion on twitter
MIT study finds systematic labeling errors in popular AI benchmark datasets
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/110
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Our 49th Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
The 2021 AI Index: Major Growth Despite the Pandemic
Multimodal Neurons in Artificial Neural Networks
Meet the AI algorithms that judge how beautiful you are
AI system can sniff out diseases as well as dogs do
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/106
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Our 48th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
This OpenAI GPT-3 Powered Demo Is A Glimpse of NPCs In The Future
Band of AI startups launch ‘rebel alliance’ for interoperability
An AI is training counselors to deal with teens in crisis
This cute book explains AI to children, without scary Terminators
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/105
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Our 47th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
The AI Research Paper Was Real. The "Coauthor" Wasn't
Clearview AI’s plan for invasive facial recognition is worse than you think
 
This AI-powered gadget could completely disrupt the ridiculous hearing aid market
Google reshuffles AI team leadership after researcher’s controversial departure
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/104
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Our 46th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
Georgia Startup Races to Complete AI-powered Voice Screening Tool to Crush COVID-19
New AI tool can thwart coronavirus mutations
 
Deepfake porn is ruining women’s lives. Now the law may finally end it. 
 
0:00 - 0:30 Intro 0:30 - 5:15 News Summary segment5:15 News Discussion segment
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/103
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Our 45th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
This is how we lost control of our faces
Here’s a Way to Learn if Facial Recognition Systems Used Your Photos
Amazon faces spying claims over AI cameras in vans
AI in health care creates unique data challenges
0:00 - 0:30 Intro 0:30 - 4:30 News Summary segment4:30 News Discussion segment
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/101
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Our 44th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
These crowdsourced maps will show exactly where surveillance cameras are watching
US commission cites ‘moral imperative’ to explore AI weapons
Why the OECD wants to calculate the AI compute needs of national governments
An AI saw a cropped photo of AOC. It autocompleted her wearing a bikini.
0:00 - 0:35 Intro 0:35 - 5:00 News Summary segment5:99 News Discussion segment
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/101
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Jan 20th, 2021 by Skynet Today
 
Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
Chatbot Gone Awry Starts Conversations About AI Ethics in South Korea
Google Sidelines Second Artificial Intelligence Researcher
This App Claims It Can Detect ‘Trustworthiness.’ It Can’t
AI could make healthcare fairer--by helping us believe what patients say
0:00 - 0:35 Intro 0:35 - 5:25 News Summary segment5:25 News Discussion segment
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/100
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:
Use of Clearview AI facial recognition tech spiked as law enforcement seeks to identify Capitol mob
FDA issues action plan for regulating AI in medical devices
Google trained a trillion-parameter AI language model
AI-Powered Text From This Program Could Fool the Government
0:00 - 0:35 Intro 0:35 - 4:30 News Summary segment4:30 News Discussion segment
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/99
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)