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Last Week in AI
Weekly summaries of the AI news that matters!
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AI Setting Grades, ICE Pays Clearview, and Much More 22.08.2020 30:13
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 Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-...
The Alexa Prize Challenge with Stanford's Abigail See and Ashwin Paranjape 20.08.2020 37:15
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. Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Check out coverage of similar topics at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art...
Mini Episode: ICE/Clearview, Race Detection and Schools 16.08.2020 6:04
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. Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art...
2020, China, Face Recognition, and DeepFakes 14.08.2020 30:15
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! Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Priv...
Mini Episode: TikTok, Cheap Deepfakes, AI in 2020, and Deference 09.08.2020 6:28
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. Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Cre...
BLM, Genderify, Jobs, and AI Parody 07.08.2020 27:08
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. Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy an...
Mini Episode: Two Facial Recognition Stories, A Reckoning for NLP, and ”Self-Programming Computers 02.08.2020 6:03
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. Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought by Kevin...
Mini Episode: AI Fashion Models, AI for Job Hopping, Facebook Simulations, and Weird A.I. Yankovic 26.07.2020 6:20
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. Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Cr...
GPT-3, Limits of Deep Learning, Deepfakes in the Real World 26.07.2020 33:52
Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories. Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
On the State of AI Ethics Report with its authors 24.07.2020 44:29
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 . Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Check out coverage of similar topics at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy...
Mini Episode: Pentagon AI, Deep Learning‘s Limits, Discharging Patients, and Robust AI 20.07.2020 6:14
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. Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought by Kevin McLeod (incomp...
Therapy Chatbots, AI Ethics at Google, and Higher-Res Climate Data 19.07.2020 31:31
Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories. Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensea See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-no...
Creators of "The Gradient" on its Origins and Purpose 16.07.2020 35:17
A chat among several of the founders of online AI-focused magazine The Gradient (thegradient.pub) about its origins and purpose. Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Check out coverage of similar topics at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privac...
Mini Episode: AI Therapists, Facial Recognition in Detroit, Decolonialism in AI, and Deepfakes for Corporate Training 12.07.2020 5:46
Our eighth audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news! This week, we look at the rise of AI therapy bots, the fight against facial recognition in Detroit, a paper from DeepMind and Oxford on decolonialism in AI, and how deepfakes are being used for corporate training. Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought by Kevin McLeod (incompet...
ACM on Facial Recognition, National AI Cloud, and Positive DeepFakes 10.07.2020 21:32
Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories. Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensea See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-no...
Mini Episode: Redeeming AI, More Lessons in AI Bias, and a National AI Research Cloud 05.07.2020 5:10
Our seventh audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news! This week, we look at how an HBO documentary is using deepfake technology for good, a new system to measure AI's carbon impact, a follow-up from last week's story on Timnit Gebru and Yann LeCun, and finally the push for a national AI research cloud. Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Delibera...
False Facial Recognition, Biased AI Drama, and Neo-Phrenology 04.07.2020 28:07
Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories. Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not...
Mini Episode: Lessons in AI bias, Facial Recognition Policy and Effects, and Trump‘s Visa Freeze 28.06.2020 4:48
Our sixth audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news! This week, we look at how one deep learning pioneer still seems to have something to learn about AI bias, how facial recognition led to a wrongful arrest and the facial recognition ban being pushed by Democratic lawmakers, and how Trump's Visa freeze could affect the US's AI prospects. Check out all the stories discussed here and more at ...
On Shaping the Global Terrain of AI Competition with Tim Hwang 25.06.2020 45:55
Stanford AI Lab PhD Andrey Kurenkov interviews Tim Hwang, Research Fellow at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) about his new report “Shaping the Terrain of AI Competition” and more. Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Check out coverage of similar topics at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Co...
Mini Episode: Startup News, NeurIPS Changes, and US-China Tensions 21.06.2020 3:59
Our fifth audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news! This week, we look at more news from Boston Dynamics, a new MIT startup that wants to help you do deep learning on your CPU, recent changes at NeurIPS, and Baidu's departure from the Partnership on AI. Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com) Licen...
The Path to Facial Recognition Reform and Regulation 19.06.2020 14:44
Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories. Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not...
Mini Episode: More Facial Recognition, Racism in Academia, and the latest in Commercial AI 14.06.2020 4:28
Our fourth audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news! This week, we look at recent progress in curtailing the development of facial recognition technology, a recent call for attention to racism in academia, and recent news from OpenAI and Boston Dynamics. Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com) Lic...
Facial Recognition and Police, Protests, Regulation 14.06.2020 24:10
Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories. Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not...
Mini Episode: Police Surveillance, Productivity, and Calls for Regulation and Cooperation 07.06.2020 4:23
Our third audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news! This week, we look at the how the police are using surveillance against civil rights protesters, AI for productivity, and recent calls from AI researchers for regulation and cooperation. Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Crea...
Black Lives Matter in AI, the Peril of DeepFakes and Fake Progress 07.06.2020 23:08
Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories. Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not...
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