Last Week in AI

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Last Week in AI episodes

November 13, 2020Geoff Hinton‘s Hot Take, Robots in Walmart and Art, Confidence in AI for Healthcare
Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
AI pioneer Geoff Hinton: “Deep learning is going to be able to do everything”
Walmart Scraps Plan to Have Robots Scan Shelves
2020 AI survey: Confidence in artificial intelligence expands as health industry leaders project faster return on investment
Artist Sougwen Chung wanted collaborators. So she designed and built her own AI robots.
0:00 - 0:40 Intro
0:40 - 5:00 News Summary segment
5:00 News Discussion segment
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Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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30 min
November 08, 2020 OpenAI's "Scaling Laws for Autoregressive Generative Modeling"
An interview with Tom Henighan, a member of the technical staff at OpenAI working on the safety team, about the recent paper “Scaling Laws for Autoregressive Generative Modeling” that he co-authored with many others at OpenAI.
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Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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34 min
November 05, 2020Yann LeCun on GPT-3, New Google Projects, Inequality, GPT-3 on Hacker News
NOTE: audio for andrey is a bit rough this week, sorry!
Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
The “Godfather of AI” Just Trashed GPT-3
AI agreement to enhance environmental monitoring, weather prediction
Mayo Clinic, Google Focus on AI Effort for Cancer Care
Inequality grows in AI research
How I used GPT-3 to hit Hacker News front page 5 times in 3 weeks
I Asked AI to Write This Post for Me. Here Are the Results.
0:00 - 0:40 Intro
0:40 - 5:00 News Summary segment
5:00 News Discussion segment
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Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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32 min
October 29, 2020 DeepNude Bot, Tesla Full Self Driving, Google AI US-Mexico Border
Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week Automating Image Abuse: deepfake bots on Telegram, Activists Turn Facial Recognition Tools Against the Police, Tesla is putting ‘self driving’ in the hands of drivers amid criticism the tech is not ready, Google AI tech will be used for virtual border wall, CBP contract shows
0:00 - 0:40 Intro
0:40 - 5:40 News Summary segment
5:40 News Discussion segment
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://www.skynettoday.com/digests/the-eighty-eighth
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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30 min
October 25, 2020 The Top Myths About AI
An interview with Daniel Leufer and Alexa Steinbrück about their project AIMyths.org.
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36 min
October 22, 2020 Accessible AI, Partnership on AI, Dataset Compression, Military AI
Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week Microsoft and partners aim to shrink the ‘data desert’ limiting accessible AI, Access Now resigns from Partnership on AI due to lack of change among tech companies, A radical new technique lets AI learn with practically no data,
0:00 - 0:40 Intro
0:40 - 5:40 News Summary segment
5:40 News Discussion segment
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://www.skynettoday.com/digests/the-eighty-seventh
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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23 min
October 20, 2020 Measurement in AI Policy: Opportunities and Challenges
An interview with Jack Clark and Raymond Perrault about their recent paper Measurement in AI Policy: Opportunities and Challenges.
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53 min
October 15, 2020 GPT-3 on reddit, Facial Recognition in Argentina, Stats on Big Tech Financing Academics
Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week A GPT-3 bot posted comments on Reddit for a week and no one noticed , Live facial recognition is tracking kids suspected of being criminals, Many Top AI Researchers Get Financial Backing From Big Tech
0:00 - 0:40 Intro
0:40 - 5:00 News Summary segment
5:00 News Discussion segment
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://www.skynettoday.com/digests/the-eighty-sixth
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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23 min
October 10, 2020 Working With Robots in a Post-Pandemic World
An interview with Professor Matt Beane about his recent paper Working With Robots in a Post-Pandemic World, co-authored with Professor Erik Brynjolfsson.
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Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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30 min
October 08, 2020 DeepFake Dictators, AI Sepsis Watch, Biased Exam Monitoring
Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week How an AI tool for fighting hospital deaths actually worked in the real world, ExamSoft’s remote bar exams sparks privacy and facial recognition concerns, Deepfake Putin is here to warn American’s about their self-inflicted doom
0:00 - 0:40 Intro
0:40 - 5:00 News Summary segment
5:00 News Discussion segment
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://www.skynettoday.com/digests/the-eighty-fifth
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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18 min