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Our 108th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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(00:00) Intro
(03:50) Using machine learning to identify undiagnosable cancers
(08:30) North American companies send in the robots, even as productivity slumps
(14:30) French tax officials use AI to spot 20,000 undeclared pools
(15:12) AI illuminates permanently shadowed regions on the moon
(15:40) Artificial intelligence can be used to better monitor Maine's forests
(16:34) Panera Bread tests artificial intelligence technology in drive-thru lanes
(17:45) Using AI to decode speech from brain activity
(23:20) Robots can be used to assess children’s mental wellbeing, study suggests
(27:50) Canadian researchers using machine learning to mitigate effects of climate change
(29:25) Researchers Develop ‘TiCoder’ Framework For Code Generation Using User Feedback With 90.4% Consistency To User Intent
(31:12) Artificial Intelligence Improves Treatment in Women with Heart Attacks
(31:41) MIT Researchers use Machine Learning to Expedite Research on New Battery Materials
(32:48) Review finds ‘paucity of robust evidence’ on impact of AI clinical outcomes
(36:00) France puts healthcare at heart of $1.8B AI strategy
(39:00) Clearview: Glasses With Facial Recognition Are Here—And The Air Force Is Buying
(40:00) New York City AI Bias Law Charts New Territory for Employers
(40:37) U.S. officials order Nvidia to halt sales of top AI chips to China
(42:00) UK Government Releases New AI Security Guidance
(43:31) Everything Everything's AI-Derived 'Raw Data Feel' Tackles Mental Health, Conspiracy Theories
Everything Everything - I Want A Love Like This
(47:05) Holly Herndon: How AI can transform your voice
Holly Herndon - Eternal
(50:17) A LinkedIn Marketing Agency Acquired an AI That Writes Mega-Cringe LinkedIn Posts
LinkedIn Viral Post Generator
(53:24) An AI-Generated Artwork Won First Place at a State Fair Fine Arts Competition, and Artists Are Pissed
(57:00) Outro
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Our 107th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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(00:00) Intro
(01:25) Machine-Learning Tools Predict Post-Op Complications, Surgery Duration
(05:30) Sanas, the buzzy Silicon Valley startup that wants to make the world sound whiter
(10:50) AI-designed camera only records objects of interest while being blind to others
(14:12) AI-based method for dating archeological remains
(18:33) You just hired a deepfake. Get ready for the rise of imposter employees.
(22:43) Deepfakes for all: Uncensored AI art model prompts ethics questions
This AI Tool Is Being Used To Make Freaky, Machine-Generated Porn
AI Creating 'Art' Is An Ethical And Copyright Nightmare
(29:00) Here's how the best AI art generators compare
(35:03) The Great FIlter Button
(19:11) Outro
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Our 105th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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(01:30) AI speeds sepsis detection to prevent hundreds of deaths
(05:05) Inside Midjourney, The Generative Art AI That Rivals DALL-E
(09:20) OpenAI expands access to DALL-E 2, its powerful image-generating AI system
(10:30) Amazon-owned self driving firm Zoox seeks to test robotaxi in California
(12:10) Baidu unveils latest autonomous electric vehicle: Apollo RT6
(13:10) Neural Sleeve is a bionic leg wrap that uses AI to correct walking patterns
(14:05) Novel method allows robots to learn in the wild
(18:45) Clinicians can build trust with machine learning through experience
(24:00) Machine learning identifies gun buyers at risk of suicide
(24:36) Microsoft launches simulator to train drone AI systems
(24:50) Open source platform enables research on privacy-preserving machine learning
(25:17) DeepMind & UCL’s Stochastic MuZero Achieves SOTA Results in Complex Stochastic Environments
(26:15) Meet the startups using AI to help doctors fight burnout
(30:22) Will AI Steal Submarines’ Stealth?
(36:15) Absurd AI-Generated Professional Food Photography with DALL-E 2
(40:05) If A.I. Generated Book Jackets Based on Literary Titles…
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Our 104th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Outline:
(00:00) Intro
(01:10) Cruise’s Robot Car Outages Are Jamming Up San Francisco
(05:00) Japan's forestry industry tests robots to address labor shortage
(07:12) FIFA will track players’ bodies using AI to make offside calls at 2022 World Cup
(08:30) Words matter: AI can predict salaries based on the text of online job postings
(09:12) Photographer Successfully Uses Dall-E 2 AI to Edit his Photos
(09:10) Google engineer identifies anonymous faces in WWII photos with AI facial recognition
(10:00)Google AI Introduces Minerva: A Natural Language Processing (NLP) Model That Solves Mathematical Questions
(13:16) A year in the making, BigScience’s AI language model is finally available
(15:55) Meta open sources early-stage AI translation tool that works across 200 languages
(16:18) Computer scientists' interactive program aids motion planning for environments with obstacles
(16:48)Microsoft AI Researchers Open-Source ‘GODEL’: A Large Scale Pre-Trained Language Model For Dialog
(17:35) Fake Friends and the Real Threat of AI-Generated Influencers
(22:05) The Fight Over Which Uses of AI Europe Should Outlaw
(25:10) Waymo, UPS, others pressure Gov. Newsom to allow autonomous trucking in California
(26:10) More and more CS students are interested in AI – and there aren't enough lecturers
(27:03) US safety regulators open special investigation into Cruise AV crash
(27:46) People who regularly talk to AI chatbots often start to believe they're sentient, says CEO
(29:10) Experiments & Explorations: Robots as Musical Instruments
(31:17) Cute desktop robot designed to keep armchair engineers engaged
(33:33) Outro
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Our 103rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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(00:00) Intro
(01:10) Instagram is testing an AI tool that verifies your age by scanning your face
(6:15) Bunnings, Kmart and The Good Guys using facial recognition technology to crack down on theft, Choice says
(10:13) Cruise’s driverless autonomous cars start giving rides to paying passengers
(12:10) Copilot, GitHub’s AI-powered programming assistant, is now generally available
(13:30) IRS expands AI-powered bots to set up payment plans with taxpayers over the phone
(14:10) General Motors is using AI to speed up the vehicle inspection process
(14:55) Learning to Play Minecraft with Video PreTraining (VPT)
(21:10) AI Detects Autism Speech Patterns Across Different Languages
(25:15) Meta releases largest open source AI language model to date
(26:05) Google's Parti Generator Relies on 20 Billion Inputs to Create Photorealistic Images
(27:30) New hybrid machine learning forecasts lake ecosystem responses to climate change
(30:04) Cerebras Systems Sets Record for Largest AI Models Ever Trained on a Single Device
(30:05) Pentagon Unveils Plan to Make 'Responsible Military AI' More Than Just a Buzzword
(34:43) Microsoft Plans to Eliminate Face Analysis Tools in Push for ‘Responsible A.I.’
(37:40) Vitali Klitschko fake tricks Berlin mayor in video call
(38:17) China’s Surveillance State Is Growing. These Documents Reveal How.
(39:03) Earthquake tech could limit deaths. Afghanistan shows it’s not easy.
(40:00) Alexa has a new voice — your dead relative’s
(41:18) Wordalle is a guess-the-prompt game that combines Wordle and DALL-E
(43:25) The King’s Swedish: AI Rewrites the Book in Scandinavia
(45:35) Outro
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Our 102nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week: LaMDA’s Sentience is Nonsense, Condemning the deployment of GPT-4chan, Only 12% of companies are 'AI Achievers' , EU To Target Big Tech, Over Deepfakes, and more!
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Outline:
(00:00) Intro
(01:05) LaMDA’s Sentience is Nonsense - Here’s Why
(2:00) Condemning the deployment of GPT-4chan
(7:25) Microsoft and Meta join Google in using AI to help run their data centers
(11:20) AI maturity: Only 12% of companies are 'AI Achievers'
(16:45) NVIDIA & UW Introduce Factory: A Set of Physics Simulation Methods and Learning Tools for Contact-Rich Robotic Assembly
(21:50) Artificial intelligence may be the only way researchers can solve the perplexing puzzle of Long COVID. It’s already categorizing patients and even identifying them
(25:42) Reddit Bans ‘SFW’ Deepfake Community
(30:15) EU To Target Meta, Google, Twitter Over Deepfakes, Report Says
(33:28) How to copy text from more than 10 previously published papers and get accepted to CVPR 2022
(36:30) We taught an AI to impersonate Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde – here’s what it revealed about sentience
(38:02) DALL-E2 Creates The World’s First AI-Generated Magazine Cover For Cosmopolitan
(42:15) Outro
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Our 101st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week: lessons from the GPT-4Chan Controversy, Google saying AI chatbot has become sentient, US upgrades crash probe into Tesla Autopilot, AI program DALL-E mini prompts some truly cursed images, and more!
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Outline:
(0:00) Intro
(1:13) Lessons from the GPT-4Chan Controversy
(8:14) Google engineer put on leave after saying AI chatbot has become sentient
(14:20) Tesla Autopilot safety faces bigger questions as US upgrades crash probe
(18:05) Stunning Insights from James Webb Space Telescope Are Coming, Thanks to GPU-Powered Deep Learning
(20:31) Can Machine Learning Translate Ancient Egyptian Texts?
(22:48) 444 Authors From 132 Institutions Release BIG-bench: A 204-Task ‘Extremely Difficult and Diverse’ Benchmark for Large Language Models
(26:23) ProcTHOR: Large-Scale Embodied AI Using Procedural Generation
(28:52) Axon Pauses Plans for Taser Drone as Ethics Board Members Resign
(32:42) Shield AI raises $165M at a $2.3B valuation to fuel development of its military autonomous flying systems
(35:38) AI program DALL-E mini prompts some truly cursed images
(39:30) Outro
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Our 100th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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(00:00) Intro
(03:12) Depressed? This algorithm can tell from the tone of your voice
(09:38) Energy Grids Plug into AI for a Brighter, Cleaner Future
(15:40) Meet ‘Codeball’ – A Deep Learning-based Automated Code Reviewer That Will Help Maintainers Review Github Pull Requests
(18:23) Alimentation Couche-Tard to deploy over 10,000 AI-powered cash registers at stores
(19:40) Machine Learning Shows That More Reptile Species May Be at Risk of Extinction Than Previously Thought
(20:30) How AI brought Val Kilmer’s ‘Iceman’ back into Top Gun: Maverick
(26:40) Can machine learning deliver one-minute brain MRI scans?
(32:04) AI model’s insight helps astronomers propose new theory for observing far-off worlds
(32:00) Caltech unit creates AI helping drones to withstand violent winds
(32:35) UC Berkeley’s Automated Crossword Solver Achieves 99.9% Letter Accuracy, Wins Top Tournament
(33:55) $10.5M Army Contract to CMU Lab Will Expand Use of AI in Predictive Maintenance
(34:50) China's AI defense can reportedly predict the course of hypersonic missiles
(35:47) US robot orders surge 40% as labor shortages, inflation persist
(41:36) A Face Search Engine Anyone Can Use Is Alarmingly Accurate
(49:48) Google bans deepfake-generating AI from Colab
(50:53) Seoul to create disaster response platform using AI
(51:48) Dutch police create deepfake video of murdered boy, 13, in hope of new leads
(52:35) Oregon dropping AI tool used in child abuse cases
(50:37) AI versus corporate logos
(58:14) I asked AI to make a Music Video... the results are trippy
(01:01:00) Outro
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Our 99th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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(1:50) Royal Mail is Doing the Right Thing with Drone Delivery
(6:10) Google uses AI to digitise maps in the utilities industry
(8:57) AI on the Ball: Startup Shoots Computer Vision to the Soccer Pitch
(9:26) Google Adds Machine Learning-Powered Studio Lighting To Video Calls
(11:33) Dyson launches a hiring spree for hundreds of engineers to build robots capable of doing household chores
(12:20) Pony.ai loses permit to test autonomous vehicles with driver in California
(12:52) Researchers develop algorithm to divvy up tasks for human-robot teams
(19:42) Microsoft AI Researchers Introduces (De)ToxiGen: A Large-Scale Machine-Generated Dataset for Adversarial and Implicit Hate Speech Detection
(24:32) Researchers Use Machine Learning to Identify Thousands of New Marine RNA Viruses in Study of Interest to Microbiologists and Clinical Laboratory Scientists
(25:17) Tiny robotic crab is smallest-ever remote-controlled walking robot
(26:12) TartanDrive dataset likely largest for off-road environments
(26:48) AI Framework Cuts Time, Effort Needed to Predict Critical Care Outcomes
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(28:25) China and Europe are leading the push to regulate A.I. — one of them could set the global playbook
(33:30) New York State Office for the Aging deploys AI robots as companions for older adults
(37:25) Oxford High School tests AI gun detection system in wake of shooting
(38:38) An Autonomous Car Blocked a Fire Truck Responding to an Emergency
(40:12) U.S. firm Clearview A.I. fined for illegally collecting images of Brits' faces
(41:19) Pentagon names new chief of responsible artificial intelligence
(42:05) The Day I Became Friends with a Robot
(44:26) I Used AI To See What These 23 Popular Cartoon Characters Would Look Like In Real Life
(46:14) Outro
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Our 98th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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(00:00) Intro
(2:22) Autonomous cargo ship completes 500 mile voyage, avoiding hundreds of collisions
(6:47) Investors pull back on artificial intelligence
(9:49) Clearbot Neo autonomously clears plastic from harbors
(10:30) You can practice for a job interview with Google AI
(11:02) Uber Eats Dabbles With Delivering Food Via Robots
(12:12) Ford-backed robotaxi startup Argo AI is ditching its human safety drivers in Miami and Austin
(13:17) DeepMind’s new AI can perform over 600 tasks, from playing games to controlling robots
(20:10) Google claims its text-to-image AI delivers 'unprecedented photorealism'
(25:30) Simultaneous emulation of neuronal and synaptic properties promotes the development of brain-like artificial intelligence
(26:27) Face-to-face screening combined with machine learning model performs best at suicide risk prediction
(27:11) Google’s Universal Pretraining Framework Unifies Language Learning Paradigms
(27:49) Robotic surgery is safer and improves patient recovery time
(28:20) Ad break
(29:48) AI may be searching you for guns the next time you go out in public
(35:09) Israeli firm hopes AI can curb drownings
(38:12) Fatal Tesla Model S Crash in California Prompts Federal Probe
(39:10) Facebook issues $397 checks to Illinois residents as part of class-action
(39:50) Clearview AI's Facial Recognition Tool Coming to Apps, Schools
(41:00) A Novelist and an AI Cowrote Your Next Cringe-Read
(44:03) AI Made This Thumbnail!
(45:46) Outro
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Our 97th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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(00:00) Intro
(01:25) Hugging Face reaches $2 billion valuation to build the GitHub of machine learning
(4:30) Google ups the AI ante with new features for Voice, Assistant, Maps and more
(09:33) How machine learning is speeding up Formula 1
(10:02) China to build AI-powered 3D printed hydroelectric dam in Tibet
(11:00) Intel debuts new chips for AI workloads, data center acceleration and laptops
(11:30) $62.5M Fundraise Values Self-Checkout System Mashgin at $1.5B -
(12:20) Scientists Discover Method to Break Down Plastic in Days, Not Centuries
(16:25) This deep learning technique solves one of the tough challenges of robotics
(21:33) Researchers now able to predict battery lifetimes with machine learning
(22:34) How Do Patients Feel About AI in Health Care? It Depends
(23:22) Meta AI Introduces ‘Make-A-Scene’: A Deep Generative Technique Based On An Autoregressive Transformer For Text-To-Image Synthesis With Human Priors
(24:32) Ad break
(25:50) A quick guide to the most important AI law you’ve never heard of
(30:40) Clearview AI banned from selling its facial recognition software to most US companies
(34:20) Justice Department and EEOC Warn Against Disability Discrimination
(35:23) U.S. civil rights enforcers warn employers against biased AI
(36:12) Kendrick Lamar uses deepfakes in latest music video
(38:23) Humans vs. DALL·E
(41:52) Outro
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Our 96th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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(00:00) Intro
(01:36) Wearable, AI-powered whole-breast ultrasound system cleared by the FDA + FDA plays tooth fairy, awards clearance to VideaHealth's cavity-spotting AI
(06:40) Another Firing Among Google’s A.I. Brain Trust, and More Discord
(12:30) AI Model Can Accurately Detect Multiple Retinal Diseases in Real Time
(12:50) Intel wins DARPA RACER-Sim program
(14:00) Mayo researchers use AI to detect weak heart pump via patients' Apple Watch ECGs
(17:50) Tsinghua U & BAAI’s CogView2 Achieves SOTA Competitive Text-to-Image Generation With 10x Speedups
(23:13) In The Latest Research From The University Of Toronto, Machine learning-Based Approach Speeds Up The Counting Of Microplastics -
(23:52) Northeastern U & Microsoft Expand StyleGAN’s Latent Space to Surpass the SOTA on Real Face Semantic Editing
(24:55) Microsoft AI Researchers Develop MoLeR: A Deep Learning-Based Generative Model That Enables Efficient Drug Design
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(28:40) UK Regulators' Path for AI Starts with Auditing Algorithms
(32:16) A unique machine-learning model predicts homelessness among US soldiers before their transition to civilian life
(35:45) Researchers Taught A.I. to Write Wine and Beer Reviews and They're Pretty Convincing
(39:33) T-SNE to view and order your Spotify tracks
(42:40) What’s New in Spot | Boston Dynamics
(44:17) Outro
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Our 95th Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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(00:00) Intro
Applications & Business
(01:27) Meta Using AI to Create Greener Concrete for its Data Centers
(07:00) AI can now kill those annoying cookie pop-ups
(10:15) Lighting Round
AI can predict missed appointments. How can hospitals use that data for better care?
Start-up Pony.ai says it's the first self-driving company to get a taxi license in China
VisionNav Robotics closes $80M for AGVs
Armed with new $150 million raise, Oregon robotics startup sets its sights on Pittsburgh
Research & Advancements
(13:00) Machine Learning Helps See into a Volcano’s Depths
(17:30) Jurassic-X: Crossing the Neuro-Symbolic Chasm with the MRKL System
Lighting Round
Engineers use artificial intelligence to capture the complexity of breaking waves -
Which Animal Viruses Could Infect People? Computers Are Racing to Find Out. -
From blurry to bright: AI tech helps researchers peer into the brains of mice
AI predicts lung cancer tumor growth after radiation : NHS study "
(24:15) Ad break
Society & Ethics
(25:30) An algorithm that screens for child neglect raises concerns
(30:30) IBM research details AI skills gap across Europe
(33:20) Lighting Round
U.S. Senate Democrats urge Buttigieg to develop autonomous vehicle rules
Tough questions, few answers: The FDA wrestles with its approach to AI in medicine
Lyft exec Craig Martell tapped as Pentagon’s AI chief
The risks of attacks that involve poisoning training data for machine learning models
Fun & Neat
(35:45) Q&A: Inside DARPA’s Subterranean Challenge
(39:15) This Woman Used AI To Show What "Harry Potter" Characters Would Look Like In Real Life Based On Their Book Descriptions, And My Jaw Is On The Floor
(41:56) Outro
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Our 94th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Warning: some curse words are used in this episode towards the end
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(00:00) Intro
(2:10) GM Patents Autonomous Tech to Train New Drivers Sans Instructor
(6:22) Startups Join AI Acquisition Rush
(13:20) UC Berkeley & Intel’s Photorealistic Denoising Method Boosts Video Quality on Moonless Nights
(17:00) Amazon opens MASSIVE AI speech dataset so Alexa can speak your language
(21:40) Ad break
(23:20) South Africa’s private surveillance machine is fueling a digital apartheid
(29:15) Actors launch campaign against AI 'show stealers'
(37:13) This AI clone of Reddit’s Am I The A*e forum will give you the best bad advice
(40:26) A Tesla vehicle using ‘Smart Summon’ appears to crash into a $3.5 million private jet
(45:00) Outro
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Our 93nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Intro
Applications & Business
(01:10) Venture funding for chip startups has doubled in the last five years thanks to AI
(4:00) Google's multisearch feature lets you search with text and images at the same time
(6:10) Lighting Round
Nurse-assisting robotics firm Diligent raises $30M- "We’ve seen robotics applied to just about every other field of late, so why not nursing — a field that will require one million new faces to keep up with demand in the U.S. alone?
Sorry, developers: Microsoft's new tool fixes the bugs in software code written by AI - "Microsoft's Jigsaw can automate the process of checking and editing code outputted by a machine."
Research & Advancements
(7:50) Deep Learning Poised to ‘Blow Up’ Famed Fluid Equations - "For centuries, mathematicians have tried to prove that Euler’s fluid equations can produce nonsensical answers. A new approach to machine learning has researchers betting that “blowup” is near."
(11:20) Analog A.I.? It sounds crazy, but it might be the future - "Forget digital. The future of A.I. is … analog? At least, that’s the assertion of Mythic, an A.I. chip company that’s, its own words, taking “a leap forward in performance in power” by going back in time. Sort of."
(13:55) Lighting Round
AI and infrared spectroscopy identify the age and species of mosquitoes – Physics World
Deep Science: Combining vision and language could be the key to more capable AI
Society & Ethics
(15:45) The Miserable Lives of Cyborg Truck Drivers - "How AI and automation can make a job worse than before"
(18:45) House lawmakers launch investigation of face-scan contractor ID.me - "The House probe marks an escalation of years of controversy over the government’s growing reliance on facial recognition, which boiled over earlier this year after the IRS said it would require Americans to scan their faces in order to access their IRS tax accounts."
(22:10) Lighting Round
Biden administration takes step forward on AI policy
FDA Issues Advisory on Use of AI and Machine Learning for Large Vessel Occlusion in the Brain
Fun & Neat
(23:40) GM Cruise autonomous taxi pulled over by police in San Francisco without humans, ‘bolts’ off (U: Cruise responds) - "Last week, a GM Cruise-converted Chevy Bolt without a driver was pulled over by San Francisco Police. In an unexpected turn, the car “bolted” …to a safe spot. Cruise responded below."
(26:43) How artificial intelligence helps students learn
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Our 92nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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(0:00) Intro
Research & Advancements
(01:15) OpenAI's new DALL.E model turns your words into pieces of art
(5:45) Pathways Language Model (PaLM): Scaling to 540 Billion Parameters for Breakthrough Performance
(10:00) Lighting Round
Stanford Researchers Have Developed a Machine Learning-Based Algorithm To Detect Autism in Brain “Fingerprints” - "Patients with autism who are diagnosed early and definitively may benefit from earlier therapies and better results. Stanford researchers have created an algorithm that can tell if someone has autism by analyzing brain images."
Johns Hopkins’ heart-scanning AI predicts cardiac arrests up to 10 years ahead - "Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have developed an artificial intelligence approach they say can help predict if and when a person could die of cardiac arrest based on imaging scans of the heart."
AI Betting Agents Weigh In On Reproducibility Of Research Findings - "Penn State researchers have created synthetic “prediction markets” for speculating on the replicability of published studies with unparalleled accuracy."
AI turns infrared images taken in total darkness into full colour - "The black-and-white images provided by night-vision cameras can be colourised using AI, but it must always be trained on similar images and is unlikely to ever work on unfamiliar general scenes"
Applications & Business
(12:15) First autonomous X-ray-analyzing AI is cleared in the EU - "An artificial intelligence tool that reads chest X-rays without oversight from a radiologist got regulatory clearance in the European Union last week — a first for a fully autonomous medical imaging AI, the company, called Oxipit, said in a statement."
(14:45) Werner to use self-driving trucks on 600 mile lane deemed ‘unappealing’ for human truck drivers - "Werner Enterprises in partnership with autonomous vehicle tech company Aurora Innovation, Inc. launched a commercial pilot program in Texas."
(17:00) Lighting Round
Elon Musk says production of Tesla's robot could start next year, but A.I. experts have their doubts - "Tesla has yet to reveal a working prototype of the robot, however, and it’s unclear how sophisticated Optimus is at this stage."
This California-based HealthTech Startup is Using Artificial Intelligence To Modernize and Personalize Fertility Care - "Alife Health, a San Francisco-based startup is using artificial intelligence to improve IVF fertility outcomes."
Using machine learning to improve student success in higher education - "[overview of topic Deploying machine learning and advanced analytics thoughtfully and to their full potential may support improvements in student access, success, and the overall student experience."
Microsoft and HPE put AI to the test on International Space Station … with gloves - "An image of a spacewalker’s gloves is analyzed for signs of wear using AI"
Society & Ethics
(20:45) California suggests taking aim at AI-powered hiring software - "A newly proposed amendment to California's hiring discrimination laws would make AI-powered employment decision-making software a source of legal liability."
(23:03) As Russia Plots Its Next Move, an AI Listens to the Chatter - "With vast amounts of data becoming available to intelligence analysts, new tools will help them sift and interpret it all—but they will introduce new risks, too."
(25:22) Lightning
Face scanner Clearview AI aims to branch out beyond police - “The new "consent-based" product, with aspirations of competing with Amazon and Microsoft, would use Clearview's algorithms to verify a person's face for bank transactions or commercial purposes.”
Google Says AI Generated Content Is Against Guidelines - "Google’s Search Advocate John Mueller says content automatically generated with AI writing tools is considered spam, according to the search engine’s webmaster guidelines."
California suggests taking aim at AI-powered hiring software - "A newly proposed amendment to California's hiring discrimination laws would make AI-powered employment decision-making software a source of legal liability."
What AI Can Do for Climate Change, and What Climate Change Can Do for AI - "[overview of topics] To tackle the climate crisis, artificial intelligence is becoming more open and democratic"
Fun & Neat
(27:42) The 11 Commandments of Hugging Robots - "How to build a humanoid that gives perfect hugs"
(33:00) Adding AI to Museum Exhibits Increases Learning, Keeps Kids Engaged Longer - "They used artificial intelligence (AI) to create a new genre of interactive, hands-on exhibits that includes a virtual assistant to interact with visitors."
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Meet the DeepMind mafia: These 18 alumni from Google's AI research lab are raising millions for their own startups, from climate to crypto
Nvidia unveils new technology to speed up AI, launches new supercomputer
Kroger and Nvidia partner to ‘reinvent the shopping experience’ with AI and digital twin simulations
Top AI execs, including Richard Socher, launch AIX Ventures
Research & Advancements
Researchers From Cortical Labs Develop DishBrain: A Neural Network With Biological Neurons
Google AI and UC Berkely Researchers Introduce A Deep Learning Approach Called 'PRIME' That Generates AI Chip Architectures By Drawing From Existing Blueprints And Performance Figures
Seeing an elusive magnetic effect through the lens of machine learning
AI confirms the obvious: The pandemic bummed people out
Society & Ethics
US-China collaboration in AI papers drops amid ongoing tech war, Stanford report shows
Banks Using AI Are Ripe for Russian Sabotage
Automation will erase 'knowledge jobs' before most blue collar jobs: Future Today Institute CEO
Ukraine uses facial recognition to identify dead Russian soldiers, minister says
Software vendors are pushing "explainable A.I." that often isn't
Fun & Neat
Ubisoft shows off machine learning tool for modelling animals
Nvidia shows off AI model that turns a few dozen snapshots into a 3D-rendered scene
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Applications & Business
(1:10) Machine Learning Reimagines the Building Blocks of Computing
(5:50) Meet ElliQ, the robot who wants to keep Grandma company
(10:52) Lightning Round
Research & Advancements
(12:24) AI suggested 40,000 new possible chemical weapons in just six hours
(14:15) Meta AI’s Sparse All-MLP Model Doubles Training Efficiency Compared to Transformers
(16:15) Lightning Round
Society & Ethics
(17:33) AI and disinformation in the Russia-Ukraine war + Deepfake Zelenskyy surrender video is the 'first intentionally used' in Ukraine war
(19:28) Powered by artificial intelligence, ‘autonomous’ border towers test Democrats’ support for surveillance technology
(23:15) Lightning round
Fun & Neat
(25:05) AI-generated utopias
(26:51) Building games and apps entirely through natural language using OpenAI’s code-davinci model
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(3:23) Amazon Uses Machine Learning to Improve Video Quality on Prime Video
(6:55) These Campaigns Hope 'Deepfake' Candidates Help Get Out the Vote
Research & Advancements
(16:25) DeepMind’s new AI model helps decipher, date, and locate ancient inscriptions
(20:45) Generating and Identifying Propaganda With Machine Learning
Society & Ethics
(27:08) The secret police: Cops built a shadowy surveillance machine in Minnesota after George Floyd's murder
(33:40) AI-produced images can't fix diversity issues in dermatology databases
Fun & Neat
(40:35) Grunt of the litter: scientists use AI to decode pig calls
(43:25) I fell in love with my AI girlfriend - and it saved my marriage'
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(01:18) How GitHub Uses Machine Learning to Extend Vulnerability Code Scanning
(06:55) First Wholly AI-Developed Drug Enters Phase 1 Trials
Research & Advancements
(10:50) Stanford University use AI computing to cut DNA sequencing down to five hours
(15:36) AI Machines Have Beaten Moore's Law Over The Last Decade, Say Computer Scientists
Society & Ethics
(21:56) China Is About to Regulate AI—and the World Is Watching
(28:00) Russia’s AI Army: Drones, AI-Guided Missiles and Autonomous Tanks
Fun & Neat
(36:20) How vacation photos of zebras and whales can help conservation
(40:50) Walmart’s Choose My Model Helps Shoppers Try on Clothes Virtually
(43:37) Baidu plans 100-city robot taxi rollout by 2030
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(01:30) AI Arrives for Serious Photo Editing, Not Just Smartphone Snapshots
(05:20) Listen to an AI voice actor try and flirt with you
(10:28) DeepMind’s AI can control superheated plasma inside a fusion reactor
(15:55) Good News About the Carbon Footprint of Machine Learning Training
(21:36) Who Is Behind QAnon? Linguistic Detectives Find Fingerprints
(26:18) Facial recognition firm Clearview AI tells investors it is seeking massive expansion beyond law enforcement
(31:23) This AI Generates Fake New Pokémon, And It's Actually Pretty Good
(34:01) AI generated this moody, entertaining animated music video
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(01:22) This AI is set to help stop illegal fishing
(04:21) An ancient language has defied translation for 100 years. Can AI crack the code?
(09:40) The New CGI: Creating Neural Neighborhoods With Block-NeRF
(12:45) MuZero’s first step from research into the real world
(16:40) MoviePass 2.0 Wants to Track Your Eyeballs to Make Sure You Watch Ads
(20:02) AI fails its job interview
(23:58) Mad Scientist Forces AI to Make Horrific Pictures Out of BuzzFeed Headlines
(26:18) Artist uses AI to perfectly fake 70s science fiction pulp covers – artwork and titles
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(01:20) Machine learning the hard way: IBM Watson's fatal misdiagnosis
(05:20) How homeowners defeated Zillow’s AI, which led to Zillow Offers’ demise
(09:00) DeepMind claims its new code-generating system is competitive with human programmers
(14:00) Announcing GPT-NeoX-20B
(16:35) AI Insurance Company Faces Class Action for Use of Biometric Data
(19:24) Democratic lawmakers take another stab at AI bias legislation
(22:55) AI-generated Valentine's Cards
(26:10) Tell this AI your story's themes, and it'll write the first paragraph for you
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Meta Aims to Build the World's Fastest AI Supercomputer
Deploying machine learning to improve mental health
Research & Advancements
OpenAI rolls out new text-generating models that it claims are less toxic
Meta researchers build an AI that learns equally well from visual, written or spoken materials
Society & Ethics
China Proposes Increased Regulation of Deepfakes and Other AI Synthesis Systems
IRS Will Require Facial Recognition Scans to Access Your Taxes
Fun & Neat
Google AI tools bring back women in science to the fore
Watch an AI Play the Best Game of Tetris You've Ever Seen
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(00:00) Intro
(01:10) This AI Software Nearly Predicted Omicron’s Tricky Structure
(02:48) BioNTech and London A.I. company create "early warning system" for COVID-19 variants
(05:20) We’re one step closer to self-farming farms
(09:55) ‘We Were Blown Away’: How New A.I. Research Is Changing the Way Conservators and Collectors Think About Attribution
(12:42) Meta claims its AI improves speech recognition quality by reading lips
(15:46) The Messy History of Facial Recognition Company Clearview AI
(18:30) Feds' spending on facial recognition tech expands, despite privacy concerns
(20:35) Great Resignation Versus Increasing Investment In AI, Robotics And Automation: A Troubling Trend
(25:55) Github Copilot Wants to Play Chess Instead of Code
(28:22) AIML machine learning students develop beer using AI
(31:40) Robo-dogs and therapy bots: Artificial intelligence goes cuddly
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For our first episode in 2022, we are joined with our friends from the Towards Data Science podcast to discuss our thoughts about the AI-related trends and events that happened in 2021.
Some things we discuss are:
Foundation models continue to grow, but one interesting trend is the focus on efficiency along with (instead of?) scale. For example, while DeepMind’s Gopher model has fewer than twice the parameters of GPT-3, it’s reportedly 25 times more efficient, meaning that much more value is being squeezed out of the same training data and compute. AI21Labs’ Jurrassic models are also equal to GPT-3 on a parameter count basis, but reflect a focus on architecture optimization over raw scaling that we expect to persist into 2022. (That’s not to say significant scaling won’t happen, or that it hasn’t happened already; Microsoft Turing-NLG, released a few months ago, is over half a trillion parameters in size. But it’s safe to say that scaling won’t be done without simultaneous efficiency optimizations that were less of a focus in late-2020.)
Procedural environment generation has been a big theme in reinforcement learning. In Open-Ended Learning Leads to Generally Capable Agents, the team at DeepMind showed how training RL agents on a wide range of environments can lead to emergent behaviour associated with generalization, like trial and error and cooperation with friendly agents.
Open-ended learning (OEL) seems like an interesting wildcard, which some researchers think might be an important ingredient in the final AGI recipe. We spoke with OpenAI’s head of open-ended learning, Ken Stanley, about what role OEL might play in the future of AI on this episode of the TDS podcast.
A NeurIPS spotlight paper titled Optimal Policies Tend to Seek Power, and subsequent work by the same author, are showing that we should expect highly capable AI systems to engage in dangerous behaviour that’s misaligned with human values, by default. Specifically, highly competent agents will tend to search for states that are powerful, in the sense that they offer many downstream options. This finding makes a compelling case that AI alignment ought to be prioritized, particularly given the rate of progress we’re seeing in AI capabilities more broadly. If it really is the case that capable AI systems will be dangerous by default, active effort must be invested in safety research.
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0:00 Intro
2:15 Rise of multi-modal models
7:40 Growth of hardware and compute
13:20 Reinforcement learning
20:45 Open-ended learning
26:15 Power seeking paper
32:30 Safety and assumptions
35:20 Intrinsic vs. extrinsic motivation
42:00 Mapping natural language
46:20 Timnit Gebru’s research institute
49:20 Wrap-up
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(00:00) Intro
(01:10) This AI Software Nearly Predicted Omicron’s Tricky Structure
(02:48) BioNTech and London A.I. company create "early warning system" for COVID-19 variants
(05:20) We’re one step closer to self-farming farms
(09:55) ‘We Were Blown Away’: How New A.I. Research Is Changing the Way Conservators and Collectors Think About Attribution
(12:42) Meta claims its AI improves speech recognition quality by reading lips
(15:46) The Messy History of Facial Recognition Company Clearview AI
(18:30) Feds' spending on facial recognition tech expands, despite privacy concerns
(20:35) Great Resignation Versus Increasing Investment In AI, Robotics And Automation: A Troubling Trend
(25:55) Github Copilot Wants to Play Chess Instead of Code
(28:22) AIML machine learning students develop beer using AI
(31:40) Robo-dogs and therapy bots: Artificial intelligence goes cuddly
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(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
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(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?
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(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
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(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
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(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
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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
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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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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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First AI Pathology Program Approved: Helps Detect Prostate Cancer
Adobe Lightroom is getting more powerful with AI-based selection tool
Research
DeepMind’s AI predicts almost exactly when and where it’s going to rain
Summarizing Books with Human Feedback
Ethics
AI’s Islamophobia problem
MIT study finds Tesla drivers become inattentive when Autopilot is activated
Fun
Amazon’s Astro Is a Mobile Alexa and Cup Holder that Costs $1k
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Applications
New Algorithm Can Identify Pre-Alzheimer's Brain Changes With Over 99% Accuracy
Columbia to Launch $25 Million AI-based Climate Modeling Center
Research
Machine learning technique detects phishing sites based on markup visualization
Stanford’s BEHAVIOR Benchmarks 100 Activities From Everyday Life for Embodied AI
Ethics
Deepfakes in cyberattacks aren’t coming. They’re already here.
Sharing learnings from the first algorithmic bias bounty challenge
Fun
Could Robots From Boston Dynamics Beat Me in a Fight?
iRobot’s newest Roomba uses AI to avoid dog poop
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This week:
Applications
Always there': the AI chatbot comforting China's lonely millions
AI startups claim to detect depression from speech, but the jury’s out on their accuracy
Research
GPT-3 mimics human love for ‘offensive’ Reddit comments, study finds
AI Researchers Introduce A Graph Neural Network Estimator for ETA Prediction at Google Maps
Ethics
Tesla is ordered to turn over Autopilot data to a federal safety agency.
Bias persists in face detection systems from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google
Fun
The time a human-driven car ran over an autonomous robot
These cute electric robots may soon deliver your dinner
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Applications
Google Sheets’ formula suggestions are like autofill for math
More than 50 robots are working at Singapore's high-tech hospital
Research
Challenges and Opportunities in NLP Benchmarking
Google Brain Uncovers Representation Structure Differences Between CNNs and Vision Transformers
Ethics
“Flying in the Dark”: Hospital AI Tools Aren’t Well Documented
Toyota pauses Paralympics self-driving buses after one hits visually impaired athlete
Fun
Rise of the robo-drama: Young Vic creates new play using artificial intelligence
Astrobee Will Find Astronauts’ Lost Sock
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Applications
Elon Musk unveils 'Tesla bot,' a humanoid robot that would be made from Tesla's self-driving AI
AI gave Val Kilmer his voice back. But critics worry the technology could be misused.
Research
100+ Standford Researchers Publish 200+ Page Paper on the AI Paradigm Shift Introduced by Large-Scale Models
DeepMind Open-Sources Perceiver IO, A General-Purpose Deep Learning Model Architecture That Handles A Wide Range of Data and Tasks
Ethics
Reddit user reverse-engineers what they believe is Apple's solution to flag child sex abuse
How AI-powered Tech Landed Man In Jail With Scant Evidence
Fun
Philip Glass on Artificial Intelligence and Art
The Bouba/Kiki Effect And Sound Symbolism In CLIP
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publications
OpenAI can translate English into code with its new Codex
Cattle-ist for the Future: Plainsight Revolutionizes Livestock Management with AI
Research
Without Code for DeepMind’s Protein AI, This Lab Wrote Its Own
Artificial Intelligence may diagnose dementia in a day
Ethics
Twitter AI bias contest shows beauty filters hoodwink the algorithm
U.S. Will Investigate Tesla’s Autopilot System Over Crashes With Emergency Vehicles
Fun
Appreciating the Poetic Misunderstandings of A.I. Art
Boston Dynamics' robots can parkour better than you
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