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Last Week in AI

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#103 - Age Checks, Theft Prevention, Minecraft, Autism, Responsible AI 06.07.2022 46:34

Our 103rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! If you are a fan, we'd appreciate your feedback on Apple Podcast, or just via email to contact@lastweekin.ai - feel free to DM us on Twitter too! Outline: (00:00) Intro (01:10) Instagram is testing an AI tool that verifies your age by scanning your face (6:15) Bunnings, Kmart and The Good Guys using facial recognition tech...

#102 - Nonsense Sentience, Condemning GPT-4chan, DeepFake bans, CVPR Plagiarism 26.06.2022 43:16

Our 102st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! If you are a fan, we'd appreciate your feedback on Apple Podcast, or just via email to contact@lastweekin.ai - feel free to DM us on Twitter too! Outline: (00:00) Intro (01:05) LaMDA’s Sentience is Nonsense - Here’s Why (2:00) Condemning the deployment of GPT-4chan (7:25) Microsoft and Meta join Google in using AI to help...

#101 - GPT-4chan, ’Sentient’ AI, Tesla Crash Probe, BIG-bench, DALL-E mini 17.06.2022 40:24

Our 101st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! If you are a fan, we'd appreciate your feedback on Apple Podcast, or just via email to contact@lastweekin.ai - feel free to DM us on Twitter too! Outline: (0:00) Intro (1:13) Lessons from the GPT-4Chan Controversy (8:14) Google engineer put on leave after saying AI chatbot has become sentient (14:20) Tesla Autopilot safety...

#100 - Depression, Energy Grid, MRI, Astronomy, DALLE Logos 08.06.2022 1:03:14

Our 100th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! If you are a fan, we'd appreciate your feedback on Apple Podcast, or just via email to contact@lastweekin.ai - feel free to DM us on Twitter too! Outline: (00:00) Intro (03:12) Depressed? This algorithm can tell from the tone of your voice (09:38) Energy Grids Plug into AI for a Brighter, Cleaner Future (15:40) Meet ‘Cod...

#99 - Drone Mail Delivery, Human-Robot Teamwork, ToxiGen, Robot Companions 02.06.2022 47:36

Our 99th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Sponsor: This episode is sponsored by Zencastr, our go-to tool for recording the podcast. It is super easy to use, and there is nothing to download. Go to http://zen.ai/ lastweekinai and get 30% off your first three months with a PRO account! Outline: (00:00) Intro (1:50) Royal Mail is Doing the Right Thing with Drone Deliv...

#98 - Autonomous Boats, DeepMind’s General AI, Google’s DALLE-2, Cringe AI Novel 28.05.2022 46:37

Our 98th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Sponsor: This episode is sponsored by Zencastr, our go-to tool for recording the podcast. It is super easy to use, and there is nothing to download. Go to http://zen.ai/ lastweekinai and get 30% off your first three months with a PRO account! Outline: (00:00) Intro (2:22) Autonomous cargo ship completes 500 mile voyage, avo...

#97 - New Google AI Features, Enzyme Discovery, Clearview AI Ban, Kendric Lamar Deepfakes 18.05.2022 43:12

Our 97th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Sponsor: This episode is sponsored by Zencastr, our go-to tool for recording the podcast. It is super easy to use, and there is nothing to download. Go to http://zen.ai/ lastweekinai and get 30% off your first three months with a PRO account! Outline: (00:00) Intro (01:25) Hugging Face reaches $2 billion valuation to build...

#96 - FDA Clearances, Firing at Google AI, AI for Apple Watch, Beer and Wine Reviews 13.05.2022 45:12

Our 96th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Sponsor: This episode is sponsored by Zencastr, our go-to tool for recording the podcast. It is super easy to use, and there is nothing to download. Go to http://zen.ai/ lastweekinai and get 30% off your first three months with a PRO account! Outline: (00:00) Intro (01:36) Wearable, AI-powered whole-breast ultrasound system...

#95 - AI Kills Cookie Pop-Ups, Models Volcanoes, Screens for Child Neglect, Paints Harry Potter 05.05.2022 43:07

Our 95th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Sponsor: This episode is sponsored by Zencastr, our go-to tool for recording the podcast. It is super easy to use, and there is nothing to download. Go to http://zen.ai/ lastweekinai and get 30% off your first three months with a PRO account! Outline: (00:00) Intro Applications & Business (01:27) Meta Using AI to Create...

#94 - AI Driving Instructors, MASSIVE Speech Dataset, AI ’Show Stealers’, Tesla Jet Crash 29.04.2022 46:46

Our 94th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Sponsor: This episode is sponsored by Zencastr, our go-to tool for recording the podcast. It is super easy to use, and there is nothing to download. Go to http://zen.ai/ lastweekinai and get 30% off your first three months with a PRO account! Warning: some curse words are used in this episode towards the end Outline: (00:00...

#93 - Chip Startup Funding Doubled, Google Text+Image Search, Analog AI, Criminal Robotaxi 21.04.2022 29:12

Our 93nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Outline: Intro Applications & Business (01:10) Venture funding for chip startups has doubled in the last five years thanks to AI (4:00) Google's multisearch feature lets you search with text and images at the same time (6:10) Lighting Round Nurse-assisting robotics firm Diligent raises $30M - "We’ve seen robotics appli...

#92 - OpenAI’s DALL-E 2, Google’s PaLM, AI Intel in Ukraine, Hugging Robots 17.04.2022 36:49

Our 92nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Outline: (0:00) Intro Research & Advancements (01:15) OpenAI's new DALL.E model turns your words into pieces of art (5:45) Pathways Language Model (PaLM): Scaling to 540 Billion Parameters for Breakthrough Performance (10:00) Lighting Round Stanford Researchers Have Developed a Machine Learning-Based Algorithm To Detect...

#91 - DeepMind Mafia, DishBrain, PRIME, ZooKeeper AI, Instant NeRF 31.03.2022 50:07

Our 91st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Outline: Applications & Business Meet the DeepMind mafia: These 18 alumni from Google's AI research lab are raising millions for their own startups, from climate to crypto Nvidia unveils new technology to speed up AI, launches new supercomputer Kroger and Nvidia partner to ‘reinvent the shopping experience’ with AI and...

#90 - AI for Algorithms, Chemical Weapons, Zelenskyy Deepfake, Border Control 24.03.2022 30:18

Our 90th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Outline: (00:00) Intro Applications & Business (1:10) Machine Learning Reimagines the Building Blocks of Computing (5:50) Meet ElliQ, the robot who wants to keep Grandma company (10:52) Lightning Round Research & Advancements (12:24) AI suggested 40,000 new possible chemical weapons in just six hours (14:15) Meta...

Deepfakes for Politicians, AI Propaganda, Operation Safety Net, Understanding Pigs 17.03.2022 50:40

Our 89th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Subscribe: RSS | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube Outline: (00:00) Intro Applications & Business (3:23) Amazon Uses Machine Learning to Improve Video Quality on Prime Video (6:55) These Campaigns Hope 'Deepfake' Candidates Help Get Out the Vote Research & Advancements (16:25) DeepMind’s new AI model helps decipher...

AI-Developed Drug, AI Beats Moore’s Law, Russia’s AI Army, Baidu’s Robotaxis 10.03.2022 47:21

Our 88th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Subscribe: RSS | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube Outline: (00:00) Intro Applications & Business (01:18) How GitHub Uses Machine Learning to Extend Vulnerability Code Scanning (06:55) First Wholly AI-Developed Drug Enters Phase 1 Trials Research & Advancements (10:50) Stanford University use AI computing to cut DN...

AI flirts, controls a fusion reactor, unmasks Q, draws Pokémon 24.02.2022 40:03

Our 87th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Subscribe: RSS | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube Outline: (00:00) Intro (01:30) AI Arrives for Serious Photo Editing, Not Just Smartphone Snapshots (05:20) Listen to an AI voice actor try and flirt with you (10:28) DeepMind’s AI can control superheated plasma inside a fusion reactor (15:55) Good News About the Carbon Foo...

AI for Ancient Languages, Eye Tracking for Ads, Pulpy AI Sci Fi Covers 17.02.2022 29:10

Our 86th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Subscribe: RSS | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube Outline: (00:00) Intro (01:22) This AI is set to help stop illegal fishing (04:21) An ancient language has defied translation for 100 years. Can AI crack the code? (09:40) The New CGI: Creating Neural Neighborhoods With Block-NeRF (12:45) MuZero’s first step from research...

IBM Watson’s and ZIllow’s AI Failures, DeepMind’s Alphacode, GPT-NeoX-20B, AI Valentine’s Cards 10.02.2022 30:54

Our 85th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Subscribe: RSS | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube Outline: (00:00) Intro (01:20) Machine learning the hard way: IBM Watson's fatal misdiagnosis (05:20) How homeowners defeated Zillow’s AI, which led to Zillow Offers’ demise (09:00) DeepMind claims its new code-generating system is competitive with human programmers (14:00...

OpenAI’s InstructGPT, Meta’s New AI Supercomputer, China Regulates DeepFakes, AI Playes Tetris 06.02.2022 33:32

Our 84rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Note: apologies for issues with sound quality in this episode! Outline: Applications & Business Meta Aims to Build the World's Fastest AI Supercomputer Deploying machine learning to improve mental health Research & Advancements OpenAI rolls out new text-generating models that it claims are less toxic Meta researcher...

AI for Omicron, Self-Farming Farms, AI-designed beer, Cuddly AI 22.01.2022 37:44

Our 83rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Outline: (00:00) Intro (01:10) This AI Software Nearly Predicted Omicron’s Tricky Structure (02:48) BioNTech and London A.I. company create "early warning system" for COVID-19 variants (05:20) We’re one step closer to self-farming farms (09:55) ‘We Were Blown Away’: How New A.I. Research Is Changing the Way Conservators a...

Looking Back at AI in 2021 with Jeremie from Towards Data Science 06.01.2022 49:32

For our first episode in 2022, we are joined with our friends from the Towards Data Science podcast to discuss our thoughts about the AI-related trends and events that happened in 2021. Some things we discuss are: Foundation models continue to grow, but one interesting trend is the focus on efficiency along with (instead of?) scale. For example, while DeepMind’s Gopher model has fewer than twice t...

Create AI art with an app, an AI-powered game platform, the year of monster AI models, better images of AI 01.01.2022 30:03

Happy new year! Our last episode of 2021 is also our 82th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Outline: Intro This AI-powered art app lets you paint pictures with words AI Dungeon’s creators are launching an experimental AI-powered game platform Announcing the Transactions on Machine Learning Research Bigger’s Not Always Better: DeepMind’s New Language AI Is Small But...

AI Best Friends, The Beatles + Machine Learning, Crime Prediction Bias, Transformer Quadraped Robot 16.12.2021 38:56

Our 81th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Outline: (0:00) Intro (1:30) Meet your new A.I. best friend (6:37) The Beatles: Get Back Used High-Tech Machine Learning To Restore The Audio (10:26) Google, Cambridge U & Alan Turing Institute Propose PolyViT: A Universal Transformer for Image, Video, and Audio Classification (14:00) Deep-learning model speeds extreme...

AI for Mathematicians, Timnit Gebru‘s New Research Center, No Ban on Killer Robots, Vertigo AI 10.12.2021 25:47

Our 80th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Feel free to email us your thoughts or feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Check our text version of this news roundup over at lastweekin.ai. Outline: (01:10) Procedural storytelling is exploding the possibilities of video game narratives (04:16) Twitch Introduces Machine Learn...