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January 01, 2022Create AI art with an app, an AI-powered game platform, the year of monster AI models, better images of AI
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 Mighty
2021 was the year of monster AI models
U.N. talks adjourn without deal to regulate ‘killer robots’
Face Recognition Is Being Banned—but It’s Still Everywhere
Better Images of AI
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31 min
December 16, 2021AI Best Friends, The Beatles + Machine Learning, Crime Prediction Bias, Transformer Quadraped Robot
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 weather predictions
(18:23) How We Determined Crime Prediction Software Disproportionately Targeted Low-Income, Black, and Latino Neighborhoods
(23:44) Inside Tesla as Elon Musk Pushed an Unflinching Vision for Self-Driving Cars
(27:18) Alarmed by Tesla’s public self-driving test, state legislators demand answers from DMV
(30:15) A Quadruped Humanoid Robot Might Be Able To Do It All
(34:05) Forging New Pathways: Boys & Girls Clubs Teens Take AI From Idea to Application
(38:00) Outro
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39 min
December 10, 2021 AI for Mathematicians, Timnit Gebru‘s New Research Center, No Ban on Killer Robots, Vertigo AI
Our 80th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Outline:
(01:10) Procedural storytelling is exploding the possibilities of video game narratives
(04:16) Twitch Introduces Machine Learning Feature to Detect Suspicious Users
(07:28) DeepMind’s AI helps untangle the mathematics of knots
(11:06) Yale researchers combat biases in machine learning algorithms
(13:40) Ex-Googler Timnit Gebru Starts Her Own AI Research Center
(17:20) US rejects calls for regulating or banning ‘killer robots
(19:50) Who, exactly, authored this AI-generated spin on Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo?
(25:00) Outro
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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26 min
November 25, 2021 Robots at Google Offices, AI-Powered Writing, AI Polygraph, AI Art
Our 79th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Outline:
(00:00) Intro
(01:10) Alphabet is putting its prototype robots to work cleaning up around Google’s offices
(04:42) Grammarly raises $200M at a $13B valuation to make you an even better writer using AI / AI-powered writing assistant Writer nabs $21M
(07:03) A Leap Forward in Computer Vision: Facebook AI Says Masked Autoencoders Are Scalable Vision Learners
(09:27) Research Professor Adji Bousso Dieng Is Out to Change the World With AI
(11:42) A Utah company says it’s revolutionized truth-telling technology. Experts are highly skeptical
(13:45) South Korea is Selling Millions of Photos To Facial Recognition Researchers
(16:00) AWS makes AI and machine learning tangible with first major art debut at Smithsonian
(19:00) ‘Paint Me a Picture’: NVIDIA Research Shows GauGAN AI Art Demo Now Responds to Words
(21:45) Outro

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24 min
November 23, 2021 Chat about Teaching AI at Stanford with Abigail See
A special discussion episode, where we do not cover AI news but instead chat about our experiences teaching AI classes at Stanford with Abigail See, a graduate from the Stanford AI Lab and a good friend of ours.
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53 min
November 19, 2021 Record High AI Funding, AfriBERTa, Facial Recognition in the West Bank, Tesla FSD Beta Crash, AI for Stressed Dogs
Our 78th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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This week:
(00:00) Intro
(01:40) Walmart is using fully driverless trucks to ramp up its online grocery business
(05:20) AI startup funding hits record high of $17.9B in Q3 / Robot orders by companies surge as labor shortages linger
(09:50) University of Waterloo AI Researchers Introduce A New NLP Model ‘AfriBERTa’ For African Languages Using Deep Learning Techniques
(12:40) AI skin cancer diagnoses risk being less accurate for dark skin – study
(16:55) Israel escalates surveillance of Palestinians with facial recognition program in West Bank
(22:15) Tesla vehicle in ‘Full Self-Driving’ beta mode ‘severely damaged’ after crash in California
(26:15) CMU opens first AI maker space to let students 'sharpen the cutting edge of AI'
(28:25) Machine Learning Shushes Stressed Dogs
(31:05) Outro

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33 min
November 11, 2021Facebook Shuts Down Facial Recognition, Google Wants to Work with the Pentagon, AI for Lie Detection?
Our 77th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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This week:
(01:06) Landing AI brings in $57M for its machine learning operations tools
(05:13) As the Arctic Warms, AI Forecasts Scope Out Shifting Sea Ice
(09:07) Why Facebook (Or Meta) Is Making Tactile Sensors for Robots
(14:12) Google AI Introduces ‘GoEmotions’: An NLP Dataset for Fine-Grained Emotion Classification
(18:28) Facebook, Citing Societal Concerns, Plans to Shut Down Facial Recognition System
(21:40) Google Wants to Work With the Pentagon Again, Despite Employee Concerns
(25:50) Australia Ordered Clearview AI to Destroy its Database, As Its Violating Privacy Laws
(27:54) AIBA uses AI technology to vet judges and refs at Belgrade worlds
(30:40) Miso Introduces Second Generation Restaurant Kitchen Robot, the Flippy 2
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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35 min
November 04, 2021AI for Game Mods and Moderation, Tesla‘s Beta Rollback, Clearview AI Tested, ruDALL-E
Our 76th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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This week:
AI voice-acting tool xVASynth gets even better at recreating videogame voices
Microsoft acquires AI-powered moderation platform Two Hat
MIT’s Latest AI Research Using Deep Neural Networks Explains How The Brain Processes Language Works
Making machine learning more useful to high-stakes decision makers
Clearview AI finally takes part in a federal accuracy test.
Tesla pulled the latest FSD Beta from owners’ cars today
ruDALL-E: generating images from text descriptions, or the largest computational project in Russia
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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25 min
October 28, 2021Rephrase.ai, MuJoCo, AI in Audacity, Illegal AI Porn Unblurring, Bigoted AI Ethics Model
Our 75th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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This week:
This startup is creating personalized deepfakes for corporations
Inside Mailchimp’s push to bring AI to content marketing
What MuJoCo’s acquisition means for DeepMind’s AI & robotics research
Yann LeCun Team Challenges Current Beliefs on Interpolation and Extrapolation Regarding DL Model Generalization Performance
Deep Learning Tools for Audacity
A Harvard freshman made a social networking app called 'The FaceTag.' It's sparked a debate about the ethics of facial recognition.
Man Arrested for Unblurring Japanese Porn With AI in First Deepfake Case
Scientists Built an AI to Give Ethical Advice, But It Turned Out Super Racist
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32 min
October 22, 2021Waymo‘s Taxi Struggles, Robot Surveillance in Singapore, AI against Human Trafficking
Our 74th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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This week:
Applications
Waymo's self-driving taxi struggles with left turns and puddles. But it's still winning over some Arizona riders
How AI can fight human trafficking
Research
AI Analysis of 100,000 Climate Studies Reveals How Massive The Crisis Already Is
Google Researchers Explore the Limits of Large-Scale Model Pretraining
Ethics
New robots patrolling for 'anti-social behaviour' causing unease in Singapore streets
Singapore sends Xavier the robot to help police keep streets safe under three-week trial
Are Under-Curated Hyperscale AI Datasets Worse Than The Internet Itself?
Fun
Dead-End SF Street Plagued With Confused Waymo Cars Trying To Turn Around ‘Every 5 Minutes’
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32 min