Last Week in AI

Waymo‘s Taxi Struggles, Robot Surveillance in Singapore, AI against Human Trafficking


Listen Later

Our 74th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

Check our text version of this news roundup over at lastweekin.ai.

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’

    Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube

    Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

    ...more
    View all episodesView all episodes
    Download on the App Store

    Last Week in AIBy Skynet Today

    • 4.7
    • 4.7
    • 4.7
    • 4.7
    • 4.7

    4.7

    270 ratings