Last Week in AI

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Last Week in AI episodes

April 16, 2021AI Nirvana Song, Facebook Fairness Dataset, No-Code AI
Our 51st Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
Shedding light on fairness in AI with a new data set
Government audit of AI with ties to white supremacy finds no AI
Companies are racing to bring A.I. to the masses with no code software
New' Nirvana Song Created 27 Years After Kurt Cobain's Death Via AI Software
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/111
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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37 min
April 12, 2021 The Pioneers of Modern AI with Cade Metz, author of "Genius Makers"
An interview with Cade Metz, a New York Times reporter covering artificial intelligence, driverless cars, robotics, virtual reality, and other emerging areas. Previously, he was a senior staff writer with Wired magazine and the U.S. editor of The Register, one of Britain’s leading science and technology news sites. His first book, "Genius Makers", tells the stories of the The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World.
Get the book: http://bit.ly/GeniusMakers
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And on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cademetz/
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1 hr
April 11, 2021Boston Dynamics, DeepFake Amazon Workers, Systematic Labeling Errors
Our 50th Last Week in AI episode! With some exciting news and our usual news coverage. Enjoy our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
Google AI Research Manager Quits After Two Ousted From Group
Robots of the future at Boston Dynamics
Silicon Valley leaders think AI will fund cash handouts
Deepfake Amazon workers sowing confusion on twitter
MIT study finds systematic labeling errors in popular AI benchmark datasets
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/110
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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32 min
March 11, 2021AI Growth, OpenAI's Smart Neurons, Disease Sniffing AI
Our 49th Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
The 2021 AI Index: Major Growth Despite the Pandemic
Multimodal Neurons in Artificial Neural Networks
Meet the AI algorithms that judge how beautiful you are
AI system can sniff out diseases as well as dogs do
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/106
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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35 min
March 09, 2021GPT-3 NPCs, Rebel AI Startups, A Cute AI Book
Our 48th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
This OpenAI GPT-3 Powered Demo Is A Glimpse of NPCs In The Future
Band of AI startups launch ‘rebel alliance’ for interoperability
An AI is training counselors to deal with teens in crisis
This cute book explains AI to children, without scary Terminators
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/105
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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25 min
February 26, 2021More Unethical AI Research, More Google Drama, More Clearview AI
Our 47th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
The AI Research Paper Was Real. The "Coauthor" Wasn't
Clearview AI’s plan for invasive facial recognition is worse than you think

This AI-powered gadget could completely disrupt the ridiculous hearing aid market
Google reshuffles AI team leadership after researcher’s controversial departure
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/104
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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28 min
February 18, 2021AI Against COVID 19, Regulating DeepFake Porn, the State of Self Driving Cars
Our 46th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
Georgia Startup Races to Complete AI-powered Voice Screening Tool to Crush COVID-19
New AI tool can thwart coronavirus mutations

Deepfake porn is ruining women’s lives. Now the law may finally end it.

0:00 - 0:30 Intro
0:30 - 5:15 News Summary segment
5:15 News Discussion segment
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/103
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by 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.
25 min
February 11, 2021Facial Recognition and Privacy, Amazon AI Cameras, AI in Health Care
Our 45th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
This is how we lost control of our faces
Here’s a Way to Learn if Facial Recognition Systems Used Your Photos
Amazon faces spying claims over AI cameras in vans
AI in health care creates unique data challenges

0:00 - 0:30 Intro
0:30 - 4:30 News Summary segment
4:30 News Discussion segment
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/101
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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26 min
February 04, 2021Detecting Surveillance, Autonomous Weapons, National AI Compute Needs
Our 44th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
These crowdsourced maps will show exactly where surveillance cameras are watching
US commission cites ‘moral imperative’ to explore AI weapons
Why the OECD wants to calculate the AI compute needs of national governments
An AI saw a cropped photo of AOC. It autocompleted her wearing a bikini.

0:00 - 0:35 Intro
0:35 - 5:00 News Summary segment
5:99 News Discussion segment
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/101
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by 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.
26 min
January 28, 2021 Bad Uses of AI, Google and Margaret Mitchell, AI for Fairer Healthcare
Jan 20th, 2021 by Chatbot Gone Awry Starts Conversations About AI Ethics in South Korea
Google Sidelines Second Artificial Intelligence Researcher
This App Claims It Can Detect ‘Trustworthiness.’ It Can’t
AI could make healthcare fairer--by helping us believe what patients say

0:00 - 0:35 Intro
0:35 - 5:25 News Summary segment
5:25 News Discussion segment
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/100
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by 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.
38 min