Episodes

Saturday Sep 19, 2020
Saturday Sep 19, 2020
An interview with Professors Jong Hyun Chung and Yong Suk Lee about their recent paper The Evolving Impact of Robots on Jobs.
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Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Wednesday Sep 16, 2020
Wednesday Sep 16, 2020
Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week Hope Returns to the Machine Learning Universe, California Utilities Hope Drones, AI Will Lower Risk of Future Wildfires, How to edit writing by a robot: a step-by-step guide, The Guardian’s GPT-3-generated article is everything wrong with media hype, *AI standards launched to help tackle the problem of overhyped studies, IBM says U.S. should adopt new export controls on facial recognition systems
0:00 - 0:40 Intro 0:40 - 5:00 News Summary segment5:00 News Discussion segment
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Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Thursday Sep 10, 2020
Thursday Sep 10, 2020
Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week AI researchers use heartbeat detection to identify deepfake videos, This know-it-all AI learns by reading the entire web nonstop, Google Offers to Help Others With the Tricky Ethics of AI, Robotics, AI, and Cloud Computing Combine to Supercharge Chemical and Drug Synthesis
0:00 - 0:40 Intro 0:40 - 4:00 News Summary segment4:00 News Discussion segment
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://www.skynettoday.com/digests/the-eightieth
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Friday Sep 04, 2020
Friday Sep 04, 2020
Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week "Hulu deepfaked its new ad. It won’t be the last.", "Memers are making deepfakes, and things are getting weird" , "The term ‘ethical AI’ is finally starting to mean something", and "The utopian promise and dystopian potential of real-time detection of police, fire, and medical emergencies".
Intro: 0:00 - 0:45News Summary segment: 0:45 - 6:45News Discussion segment: 6:45 onward
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://www.skynettoday.com/digests/the-eightieth
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Wednesday Sep 02, 2020
Wednesday Sep 02, 2020
An interview with Professor Paul Brewer and PhD Students James Bingaman and Ashely Paintsil about their new survey paper "Media Messages and U.S. Public Opinion about Artificial Intelligence" about what the general U.S. public thinks about AI, and how popular media and interaction with new technology shapes it.
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Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Saturday Aug 29, 2020
Saturday Aug 29, 2020
An interview with Professors Julian Togelius and Sebastian Risi about their new survey paper "Increasing generality in machine learning through procedural content generation", their work at modl.ai, and more!
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Wednesday Aug 26, 2020
Wednesday Aug 26, 2020
Our latest roundup of last week's big AI news!
Plus, Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss the news and offer their thoughts.
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Saturday Aug 22, 2020
Saturday Aug 22, 2020
Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories.Please fill out the listener survey: bit.ly/ltasurvey
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Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Thursday Aug 20, 2020
Thursday Aug 20, 2020
An interview with Stanford AI Lab PhDs Abigal See and Ashwin Paranjape about their involvement with the Alexa Prize Challenge and what it took to enable their chatbot Chirpy Cardinal to take second place.
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Sunday Aug 16, 2020
Sunday Aug 16, 2020
Our thirteenth audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news!
This week, we look at the ICE/Clearview AI contract, the growth of race detection software, and how AI is being used to assign students final grades and reopen schools.
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Theme: Deliberate Thought by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com)