Last Week in AI

Our 60th Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! On this episode, new ways to scale training, a take on RL being enough, care bots, creepy fake humans, AI for AI chips, City Brains in China, and cheaper robot dogs.

This week:

Microsoft’s ZeRO-Infinity Library Claims to Train 32 trillion Parameters Deep Learning Models On A Cluster of Just 32 GPUs

DeepMind scientists: Reinforcement learning is enough for general AI

‘Care bots’ are on the rise and replacing human caregivers

These creepy fake humans herald a new age in AI

Google is using AI to design its next generation of AI chips more quickly than humans can

Across China, AI ‘city brains’ are changing how the government runs

This $2,700 robot dog will carry a single bottle of water for you

Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/120

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Our 59th Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

This week:

GPT-3: a disappointing paper

NYU, Facebook & CIFAR Present ‘True Few-Shot Learning’ for Language Models Whose Few-Shot Ability They Say Is Overestimated

Google Ventures-backed Merlin Labs is building AI that can fly planes

Self-Driving Truck Completes 950-Mile Trip 10 Hours Faster Than Human Driver

King County is first in the country to ban facial recognition software

Have autonomous robots started killing in war?

Don't End Up on This Artificial Intelligence Hall of Shame

Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/119

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Our 58th Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

This week:

Rebel AI group raises record cash after machine learning schism

OpenAI launches $100 million startup fund with Microsoft

Please Commit More Blatant Academic Fraud

AI Could Soon Write Code Based on Ordinary Language

All together now: the most trustworthy covid-19 model is an ensemble

AI Can Write Disinformation Now—and Dupe Human Readers

A rogue killer drone 'hunted down' a human target without being instructed to, UN report says

Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/118

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Our 57 Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

This week:

GPT-3’s free alternative GPT-Neo is something to be excited about

Facebook Wav2vec-U learns to recognize speech from unlabeled data

Deepfake dubs could help translate film and TV without losing an actor's original performance

Quizzing Michelangelo AI

History of Ethical AI at Google

Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/117

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An interview with Janelle Shane, the creator of aiweirdness.com and author of 'You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How AI Works and Why It’s Making the World a Weirder Place'.

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Janelle Shane works as a research scientist in Colorado, where she makes computer-controlled holograms for studying the brain, and other light-steering devices. She is also a self-described A. I. Humorist - on aiweirdness.com, she writes about AI and the sometimes hilarious, sometimes unsettling ways that algorithms get things wrong. Her work has also been featured in the New York Times, The Atlantic, WIRED, Popular Science, and more, AND she has also given the TED talk “The danger of AI is weirder than you think” in 2019.

Her book, “You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How AI Works and Why It’s Making the World a Weirder Place” uses cartoons and humorous pop-culture experiments to look inside the minds of the algorithms that run our world, making artificial intelligence and machine learning both accessible and entertaining.

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Our 56th Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

This week:

The Pentagon Inches Toward Letting AI Control Weapons

Tesla privately admits Elon Musk has been exaggerating about ‘full self-driving’

    Tesla in fatal California crash may have been in autopilot mode, officials say

    DMV probing whether Tesla violates state regulations with self-driving claims

Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/116

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Our 55th Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

This week:

It Began As an AI-Fueled Dungeon Game. It Got Much Darker

The autonomous vehicle world is shrinking — it’s overdue

Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/114

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Our 54th Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

This week:

Huawei trained the Chinese-language equivalent of GPT-3

Farming Robot Kills 100,000 Weeds per Hour With Lasers

Lyft sells self-driving unit to Toyota’s Woven Planet for $550M

Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/114

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Our 53drd Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

This week:

AI Pinpoints Local Pollution Hotspots Using Satellite Images

Cerebras’ New Monster AI Chip Adds 1.4 Trillion Transistors

Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/113

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Our 52nd Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

This week:

Two people killed in fiery Tesla crash with no one driving

‘No one was driving’ in Tesla crash that killed two men in Spring, Texas, report says

2.6 Million Fake Faces: AI Generated People May Be The Future Of The Metaverse, Celebrity, And Perhaps ... All Of Us

Black women, AI, and overcoming historical patterns of abuse

Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/112

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