Last Week in AI
Weekly summaries of the AI news that matters!
Episodes

Aug 20, 2020
Aug 20, 2020
37 min
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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Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Aug 16, 2020
Aug 16, 2020
6 min
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)

Aug 14, 2020
Aug 14, 2020
30 min
Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories, relating to AI's struggles in 2020, Chinese AI surveillance, tools to fight facial recognition, and more!
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Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Aug 9, 2020
Aug 9, 2020
6 min
Our twelfth audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news!
This week, we look at Microsoft's reasons for the TikTok acquisition, how depefakes are becoming cheaper, AI's struggle to adapt to 2020, and how AI is learning when to defer to humans.
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Theme: Deliberate Thought by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com)
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Aug 7, 2020
Aug 7, 2020
27 min
Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories, relating to Black Lives Matter, the disaster that was Genderify, possible ways jobs will be lost, and Weird A.I. Yankovic.
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Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Aug 2, 2020
Aug 2, 2020
6 min
Our eleventh audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news!
This week, we look at two recent stories on facial recognition, why Natural Language Processing researchers might be chasing the wrong goal, and a clickbait headline accompanying an exciting story about automated code generation.
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Theme: Deliberate Thought by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com)
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Jul 26, 2020
Jul 26, 2020
6 min
Our tenth audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news!
This week, we look at how AI might threaten fashion models' jobs, how AI is being used to predict job hopping, Facebook's simulations of bad user behavior, and A.I. generated parody songs.
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Theme: Deliberate Thought by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com)
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Jul 25, 2020
Jul 25, 2020
33 min
Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories.
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Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Jul 23, 2020
Jul 23, 2020
44 min
An interview with the Founder of the Montreal AI Ethics Institute Abhishek Gupta, as well as fellow AI Ethics researchers Camylle Lanteigne, Muriam Fancy, Ryan Khurana, about their recent State of AI Ethics Report.
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Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Jul 20, 2020
Jul 20, 2020
6 min
Our ninth audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news!
This week, we look at the Pentagon's Joint AI Center, recent research on the computational limits of deep learning, how AI is being used to decide when to discharge patients, and a recent report on robust AI research.
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Theme: Deliberate Thought by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com)
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