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	Title	Pub. Date	Duration
	#180 - Ideogram v2, Imagen 3, AI in 2030, Agent Q, SB 1047	03 Sep 2024	02:05:23
Our 180th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With hosts Andrey Kurenkov (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris) If you would like to get a sneak peek and help test Andrey's generative AI application, go to Astrocade.com to join the waitlist and the discord. Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ If you would like to become a sponsor for the newsletter, podcast, or both, please fill out this form. Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Episode Highlights: Ideogram AI's new features, Google's Imagine 3, Dream Machine 1.5, and Runway's Gen3 Alpha Turbo model advancements. Perplexity's integration of Flux image generation models and code interpreter updates for enhanced search results. Exploration of the feasibility and investment needed for scaling advanced AI models like GPT-4 and Agent Q architecture enhancements. Analysis of California's AI regulation bill SB1047 and legal issues related to synthetic media, copyright, and online personhood credentials. Timestamps + Links: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter (00:01:08) Response to Listener Comments / Corrections Tools & Apps (00:03:58) Ideogram AI expands its features with v2 model and color palette options (00:07:48) Google Releases Powerful AI Image Generator You Can Use for Free (00:11:41) Perplexity adds Flux.1 model for Pro users alongside Playground v3 update (00:13:58) Luma drops Dream Machine 1.5 — here’s what’s new (00:17:49) Runway’s Gen-3 Alpha Turbo is here and can make AI videos faster than you can type (00:20:21) Perplexity’s latest update improves code interpreter, charts included Applications & Business (00:24:14) AMD buying server maker ZT Systems for $4.9 billion as chipmakers strengthen AI capabilities (00:28:55) Ars Technica content is now available in OpenAI services (00:34:08) Anysphere, a GitHub Copilot rival, has raised $60M Series A at $400M valuation from a16z, Thrive, sources say 00:38:32 Stability AI appoints new Chief Technology Officer (00:41:45) Cruise’s robotaxis are coming to the Uber app in 2025 Projects & Open Source (00:44:16) AI21 Introduces the Jamba Model Family: The most powerful and efficient long-context models for the enterprise (00:53:47) Microsoft reveals Phi-3.5 — this new small AI model outperforms Gemini and GPT-4o (00:57:33) Nvidia’s Llama-3.1-Minitron 4B is a small language model that punches above its weight (01:00:58) Open source Dracarys models ignite generative AI fired coding Research & Advancements (01:12:35) Can AI Scaling Continue Through 2030? (01:15:35) Agent Q: Advanced Reasoning and Learning for Autonomous AI Agents (01:23:58) Transformers to SSMs: Distilling Quadratic Knowledge to Subquadratic Models (01:31:18) Loss of plasticity in deep continual learning Policy & Safety (01:38:20) California weakens bill to prevent AI disasters before final vote, taking advice from Anthropic (01:48:14) Personhood credentials: Artificial intelligence and the value of privacy-preserving tools to distinguish who is real online (01:52:44) Showing SAE Latents Are Not Atomic Using Meta-SAEs Synthetic Media & Art (01:58:33) Authors sue Claude AI chatbot creator Anthropic for copyright infringement (01:59:32) Artists’ lawsuit against Stability AI and Midjourney gets more punch (02:01:43) Outro
	#179 - Grok 2, Gemini Live, Flux, FalconMamba, AI Scientist	20 Aug 2024	01:58:26
Our 179th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With hosts Andrey Kurenkov (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris) If you would like to get a sneak peek and help test Andrey's generative AI application, go to Astrocade.com to join the waitlist and the discord. Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ If you would like to become a sponsor for the newsletter, podcast, or both, please fill out this form. Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Episode Highlights: - Grok 2's beta release features new image generation using Black Forest Labs' tech. - Google introduces Gemini Voice Chat Mode available to subscribers and integrates it into Pixel Buds Pro 2. - Huawei's Ascend 910C AI chip aims to rival NVIDIA's H100 amidst US export controls. - Overview of potential risks of unaligned AI models and skepticism around SingularityNet's AGI supercomputer claims. Timestamps + Links: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter (00:02:15) Response to listener comments / corrections Tools & Apps (00:04:24) Grok-2 is out in beta, now with added AI image generation (00:11:28) OpenAI reveals an updated GPT-4o model - but can't quite explain how it's better (00:13:48) Google Gemini’s voice chat mode is here (00:16:18) Google’s Pixel Buds Pro 2 bring Gemini to your ears (00:19:55) Google’s AI-generated search summaries change how they show their sources (00:23:13) Prompt Caching is Now Available on the Anthropic API for Specific Claude Models Applications & Business (00:26:56) Meet Black Forest Labs, the startup powering Elon Musk’s unhinged AI image generator (00:26:56) Huawei readies new AI chip to challenge Nvidia in China, WSJ reports (00:37:53) ASML and Imec Announce High-NA Lithography Breakthrough (00:43:07) Chinese startup WeRide gets nod to test robotaxis with passengers in California (00:45:49) Perplexity’s popularity surges as AI search start-up takes on Google (00:51:55) Lisa Su formally welcomes Silo AI team to AMD after completing $665 million acquisition Projects & Open Source (00:54:31) FalconMamba 7B Released: The World’s First Attention-Free AI Model with 5500GT Training Data and 7 Billion Parameters (00:59:25) OpenAI has introduced SWE-bench Verified to evaluate AI performance (01:04:21) Nous Research presents Hermes 3 (01:11:07) New supercomputing network could lead to AGI, scientists hope, with 1st node coming online within weeks Research & Advancements (01:14:40) The AI Scientist: Towards Fully Automated Open-Ended Scientific Discovery (01:30:24) Imagen 3 (01:32:48) The Data Addition Dilemma (01:37:35) LongWriter: Unleashing 10,000+ Word Generation from Long Context LLMs Policy & Safety (01:40:55) MIT researchers release a repository of AI risks (01:44:14) Elon Musk addresses power issues at xAI supercomputer facility in Memphis (01:46:52) FCC Proposes New Rules on AI-Powered Robocalls Governments Adjust Policies Amid Flood of AI Record Requests Synthetic Media & Art (01:48:21) SAG-AFTRA Strikes Groundbreaking AI Digital Voice Replica Pact With Startup Firm Narrativ (01:51:52) How ‘Deepfake Elon Musk’ Became the Internet’s Biggest Scammer (01:56:21) AI Song Outro
	#170 - new Sora rival, OpenAI robotics, understanding GPT4, AGI by 2027?	09 Jun 2024	01:48:30
Our 170th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With hosts Andrey Kurenkov (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris) Feel free to leave us feedback here. Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai and/or hello@gladstone.ai Timestamps + Links: Tools & Apps (00:03:33) KLING is the latest AI video generator that could rival OpenAI's Sora (00:09:16) ‘Apple Intelligence’ will automatically choose between on-device and cloud-powered AI (00:12:21) Udio introduces new udio-130 music generation model and more advanced features (00:14:38) Perplexity AI’s new feature will turn your searches into shareable pages (00:16:35) ElevenLabs’ AI generator makes explosions or other sound effects with just a prompt (00:18:37) Google’s updated AI-powered NotebookLM expands to India, UK and over 200 other countries Applications & Business (00:19:40) OpenAI is restarting its robotics research group (00:25:01) Saudi fund invests in China effort to create rival to OpenAI (00:29:34) UAE seeks ‘marriage’ with US over artificial intelligence deals (00:33:01) Zoox to test self-driving cars in Austin and Miami (00:35:49) Microsoft Lays Off 1,500 Workers, Blames "AI Wave" (00:38:28) Avengers, assemble—Google, Intel, Microsoft, AMD and more team up to develop an interconnect standard to rival Nvidia's NVLink Projects & Open Source (00:40:39) GLM-4-9B-Chat-1M (00:46:37) Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics show off first project: an open source robot that does chores (00:49:40) Zyphra debuts Zyda, a 1.3T language modeling dataset it claims outperforms Pile, C4, arxiv (00:51:59) Stability AI debuts new Stable Audio Open for sound design Research & Advancements (00:54:05) Scaling and evaluating sparse autoencoders (01:04:54) Improving Alignment and Robustness with Short Circuiting (01:12:11) Automatic Data Curation for Self-Supervised Learning: A Clustering-Based Approach (01:16:20) GPT-4 didn't ace the bar exam after all, MIT research suggests — it didn't even break the 70th percentile Policy & Safety (01:20:11) Former OpenAI researcher foresees AGI reality in 2027 (01:28:03) OpenAI Insiders Warn of a ‘Reckless’ Race for Dominance (01:33:52) Testing and mitigating elections-related risks (01:36:26) Teams of LLM Agents can Exploit Zero-Day Vulnerabilities Synthetic Media & Art (01:43:23) The Uncanny Rise of the World's First AI Beauty Pageant (01:46:25) Outro + AI Song
	Create AI art with an app, an AI-powered game platform, the year of monster AI models, better images of AI	01 Jan 2022	00:30:00
Happy new year! Our last episode of 2021 is also our 82th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Outline: Intro This AI-powered art app lets you paint pictures with words AI Dungeon’s creators are launching an experimental AI-powered game platform Announcing the Transactions on Machine Learning Research Bigger’s Not Always Better: DeepMind’s New Language AI Is Small But Mighty 2021 was the year of monster AI models U.N. talks adjourn without deal to regulate ‘killer robots’ Face Recognition Is Being Banned—but It’s Still Everywhere Better Images of AI Subscribe: RSS \| iTunes \| Spotify \| YouTube Feel free to email us your thoughts or feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com
	AI Best Friends, The Beatles + Machine Learning, Crime Prediction Bias, Transformer Quadraped Robot	16 Dec 2021	00:38:52
Our 81th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Outline: (0:00) Intro (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 (38:00) Outro Subscribe: RSS \| iTunes \| Spotify \| YouTube Feel free to email us your thoughts or feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com
	Robots at Google Offices, AI-Powered Writing, AI Polygraph, AI Art	25 Nov 2021	00:23:00
Our 79th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Feel free to email us your thoughts or feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com Subscribe: RSS \| iTunes \| Spotify \| YouTube Check our text version of this news roundup over at lastweekin.ai. Outline: (00:00) Intro (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 (21:45) Outro Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
	Chat about Teaching AI at Stanford with Abigail See	23 Nov 2021	00:52:39
A special discussion episode, where we do not cover AI news but instead chat about our experiences teaching AI classes at Stanford with Abigail See, a graduate from the Stanford AI Lab and a good friend of ours. Subscribe: RSS \| iTunes \| Spotify \| YouTube Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
	Record High AI Funding, AfriBERTa, Facial Recognition in the West Bank, Tesla FSD Beta Crash, AI for Stressed Dogs	19 Nov 2021	00:32:14
Our 78th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Subscribe: RSS \| iTunes \| Spotify \| YouTube Check our text version of this news roundup over at lastweekin.ai. This week: (00:00) Intro (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 (31:05) Outro Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
	Facebook Shuts Down Facial Recognition, Google Wants to Work with the Pentagon, AI for Lie Detection?	11 Nov 2021	00:34:11
Our 77th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Subscribe: RSS \| iTunes \| Spotify \| YouTube Check our text version of this news roundup over at lastweekin.ai. This week: (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 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
	AI for Game Mods and Moderation, Tesla‘s Beta Rollback, Clearview AI Tested, ruDALL-E	04 Nov 2021	00:24:55
Our 76th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Subscribe: RSS \| iTunes \| Spotify \| YouTube Check our text version of this news roundup over at lastweekin.ai. This week: 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 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
	Rephrase.ai, MuJoCo, AI in Audacity, Illegal AI Porn Unblurring, Bigoted AI Ethics Model	28 Oct 2021	00:31:13
Our 75th 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: 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 Subscribe: RSS \| iTunes \| Spotify \| YouTube Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
	Waymo‘s Taxi Struggles, Robot Surveillance in Singapore, AI against Human Trafficking	22 Oct 2021	00:31:57
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)
	#169 - Google's Search Errors, OpenAI news & DRAMA, new leaderboards	03 Jun 2024	02:06:22
Our 168th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Feel free to leave us feedback here: https://forms.gle/ngXvXZpNJxaAprDv6 Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai and/or hello@gladstone.ai Timestamps + Links: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter (00:02:55) Response to listener comments / corrections Tools & Apps (00:04:33) Google’s A.I. Search Errors Cause a Furor Online (00:10:56) Telegram gets an in-app Copilot bot (00:13:13) Opera is adding Google's Gemini AI to its browser (0016:13) Amazon plans to give Alexa an AI overhaul — and a monthly subscription price (00:19:15) Microsoft Edge will translate and dub YouTube videos as you’re watching them (00:21:12) Iyo thinks its gen AI earbuds can succeed where Humane and Rabbit stumbled Applications & Business (00:24:57) PwC agrees deal to become OpenAI's first reseller and largest enterprise user (00:30:07) Vox Media and The Atlantic sign content deals with OpenAI (00:36:27) OpenAI launches programs making ChatGPT cheaper for schools and nonprofits (00:40:03) Huawei patent reveals 3nm-class process technology plans — China continues to move forward despite US sanctions (00:44:32) Nvidia, Powered by A.I. Boom, Reports Soaring Revenue and Profits (00:48:16) Elon Musk’s xAI raises $6 billion in latest funding round Projects & Open Source (00:51:13) Scale AI publishes its first LLM Leaderboards, ranking AI model performance in specific domains (00:56:04) Cohere For AI Launches Aya 23, 8 and 35 Billion Parameter Open Weights Release (01:00:45) Who will make AlphaFold3 open source? Scientists race to crack AI model (01:04:07) Mistral releases Codestral, its first generative AI model for code Research & Advancements (01:09:23) The Road Less Scheduled (01:14:10) Training Compute of Frontier AI Models Grows by 4-5x per Year (01:21:33) gzip Predicts Data-dependent Scaling Laws (01:25:51) Neural Scaling Laws for Embodied AI (01:28:47) Contextual Position Encoding: Learning to Count What’s Important (01:33:09) New AI products much hyped but not much used, study says Policy & Safety (01:37:00) Ex-OpenAI board member reveals what led to Sam Altman's brief ousting (01:46:36) OpenAI researcher who resigned over safety concerns joins Anthropic (01:49:16) Leaked OpenAI Documents Show Sam Altman Was Clearly Aware of Silencing Former Employees (01:54:33) OpenAI Board Forms Safety and Security Committee (01:58:07) Robocaller Who Used AI to Clone Biden’s Voice Fined $6 Million (01:59:08) Hacker Releases Jailbroken "Godmode" Version of ChatGPT (02:00:46) China Creates $47.5 Billion Chip Fund to Back Nation’s Firms Synthetic Media & Art (02:02:23) Alphabet, Meta Offer Millions to Partner With Hollywood on AI (02:04:21) Outro + AI Song
	DeepMind‘s Rain Nowcasting, OpenAI‘s Book Summarization, Distracted Tesla Drivers, Amazon‘s $1k robot	08 Oct 2021	00:30:00
Our 73rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Applications 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 Subscribe: RSS \| iTunes \| Spotify \| YouTube Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/136 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
	AI for climate modeling, Deepfakes are here, Boston Dynamics in a fight	15 Sep 2021	00:37:53
Our 72st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Article picks: 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 Subscribe: RSS \| iTunes \| Spotify \| YouTube Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/132 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
	AI for lonely people, GPT-3 is toxic, Tesla investigation develops, Kiwibot	11 Sep 2021	00:29:04
Our 71st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! 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 Subscribe: RSS \| iTunes \| Spotify \| YouTube Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/132 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
	AI for Spreadsheets, Hospital Robots, NLP Benchmarking, AI Play	03 Sep 2021	00:30:04
Our 70th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: 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 Socks Subscribe: RSS \| iTunes \| Spotify \| YouTube Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/131 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
	Tesla Bot, AI Val Kilmer, DeepMind‘s Perceiver IO, Apple‘s NeuralHash	27 Aug 2021	00:40:20
Our 69th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: 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 Subscribe: RSS \| iTunes \| Spotify \| YouTube Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/130 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
	OpenAI‘s Codex Update, Boston Dynamics Parkour, Twitter AI Bias	20 Aug 2021	00:37:44
Our 68th Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: 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 Subscribe: RSS \| iTunes \| Spotify \| YouTube Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/129 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
	Fabricated AI Research, AI Phishing Emails, AI Package Theft Detection	16 Aug 2021	00:31:43
Our 67th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: A new generation of AI-powered robots is taking over warehouses With a nudge from AI, ketamine emerges as a potential rare disease treatment Tortured phrases' give away fabricated research papers Fast, Efficient Neural Networks Copy Dragonfly Brains AI Wrote Better Phishing Emails Than Humans in a Recent Test These Algorithms Look at X-Rays' and Somehow Detect Your Race Tably, An AI-Powered Camera App, Give You A Deeper Understanding Of Your Cat's Health And Mood Man defends against package thieves using machine learning AI, flour, and very loud sirens Subscribe: RSS \| iTunes \| Spotify \| YouTube Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/128 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
	Malware in AI models, Algorithmic Bias Bounty, Robot Beach-Cleaners and Beehives	11 Aug 2021	00:23:43
Our 66th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! NOTE: audio is fixed on this upload. This week: Meet BeachBot, a beach rover that uses AI to remove cigarette butts from beaches Here Is A Fully Autonomous AI-Powered Beehive That Could Save Bee Colonies Researchers demonstrate that malware can be hidden inside AI models Facebook AI Releases ‘VoxPopuli’, A Large-Scale Open Multilingual Speech Corpus For AI Translations in NLP Systems China built the world's largest facial recognition system. Now, it's getting camera-shy. Twitter announces first algorithmic bias bounty challenge Say Hello To The Tokyo Olympic Robots Subscribe: RSS \| iTunes \| Spotify \| YouTube Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/127 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
	Our 100th episode! A look back with hosts Andrey, Sharon, and Daniel	02 Aug 2021	00:15:58
Our 100th episode! Given this event, we have a short discussion among the hosts of the podcasts. Hope you enjoy! And please fill out this survey Subscribe: RSS \| iTunes \| Spotify \| YouTube Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
	AI in the US State and Federal Governments with the hosts of the AI Today Podcast	28 Jul 2021	00:35:36
Check out this special crossover episode with the AI Today podcast, the hosts of which Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer discuss pressing topics around artificial intelligence, interview guests and experts on the subject, and cut through the hype around AI. For this crossover episode, we thought it’d be fun to chat about some of the topics that have recently been covered on the AI Today podcast, in particular what has been happening with AI in government. Specifically, we discuss: Challenges in Federal AI Adoption Interview with Justin Marsico, Chief Data Officer at the Bureau Of The Fiscal Service AI Center of Excellence in the US Federal Government - Interview with Neil Chaudhry, GSA Data and AI at the State level, interview with Joy Bonaguro, CDO State of California Data and AI in the state of North Dakota, Interview with Dorman Bazzell, CDO of North Dakota Subscribe: RSS \| iTunes \| Spotify \| YouTube Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
	#168 - OpenAI vs Scar Jo + safety researchers, MS AI updates, cool Anthropic research	28 May 2024	01:44:31
Our 168th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With guest host Gavin Purcell from AI for Humans podcast! Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai and/or hello@gladstone.ai Timestamps + Links: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter + Response to listener comments / corrections Tools & Apps (00:08:00) OpenAI says Sky voice in ChatGPT will be paused after concerns it sounds too much like Scarlett Johansson (00:16:14) Microsoft’s Copilot assistant is getting a GPT-4o upgrade + Recall is Microsoft’s key to unlocking the future of PCs (00:21:36) ElevenLabs Launches AI-Voiced Screen Reader App (00:22:40) Adobe Lightroom gets a magic eraser, and it’s impressive (00:25:07) Microsoft, Khan Academy provide free AI assistant for all educators in US (00:27:40) Microsoft Paint is getting an AI-powered image generator that responds to your text prompts and doodles Applications & Business (00:29:16) OpenAI founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman go on the defensive after top safety researchers quit (00:36:58) OpenAI, WSJ Owner News Corp Strike Content Deal Valued at Over $250 Million (00:41:27) CoreWeave Raises $7.5 Billion in Debt for AI Computing Push (00:44:13) Google announced Trillium, its sixth generation of Tensor processors. (00:45:09) Inflection AI reveals new team and plan to embed emotional AI in business bots (00:47:01) Data-labeling startup Scale AI raises $1B as valuation doubles to $13.8B Projects & Open Source (00:48:35) Abacus AI Releases Smaug-Llama-3-70B-Instruct: The New Benchmark in Open-Source Conversational AI Rivaling GPT-4 Turbo (00:52:24) Introducing New Chatbot Arena Category: Hard Prompts (00:54:56) Microsoft brings out a small language model that can look at pictures Research & Advancements (00:56:05) New Anthropic Research Sheds Light on AI's 'Black Box' (01:04:03) Chameleon: Mixed-Modal Early-Fusion Foundation Models (01:08:14) SpeechVerse: A Large-scale Generalizable Audio Language Model (01:09:05) CAT3D: Create Anything in 3D with Multi-View Diffusion Models (01:11:17) Coin3D: Controllable and Interactive 3D Assets Generation with Proxy-Guided Conditioning (01:12:10) SpeechGuard: Exploring the Adversarial Robustness of Multimodal Large Language Models Policy & Safety (01:15:01) World’s first major law for artificial intelligence gets final EU green light (01:17:18) Colorado governor signs sweeping AI regulation bill (01:22:10) Senators Propose $32 Billion in Annual A.I. Spending but Defer Regulation (01:23:25) Google DeepMind launches new framework to assess the dangers of AI models (01:25:05) Tech giants pledge AI safety commitments — including a ‘kill switch’ if they can’t mitigate risks Synthetic Media & Art (01:28:32) Sony Music warns tech companies over ‘unauthorized’ use of its content to train AI (01:32:34) Hollywood agency CAA aims to help stars manage their own AI likenesses (01:38:28) What Do You Do When A.I. Takes Your Voice? (01:42:01) Outro + AI Song
	DeepMind‘s AlphaFold 2, Voice Cloning, Facial Recognition in Retail Stores	26 Jul 2021	00:25:18
Our 65th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: The future of self-driving? Maybe less like Elon Musk and more like Domino's pizza robots DeepMind's AI for protein structure is coming to the masses Reasoning with Language Models and Knowledge Graphs for Question Answering AI now enables robots to adapt rapidly to changing real world conditions Voice clone of Anthony Bourdain prompts synthetic media ethics questions Retail stores are packed with unchecked facial recognition, civil rights organizations say Google CEO Still Insists AI Revolution Bigger Than Invention of Fire Subscribe: RSS \| iTunes \| Spotify \| YouTube Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/125 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
	Reflecting on AI news in 2021 (so far) with the host of the Towards Data Science Podcast	21 Jul 2021	00:43:01
2021 has been a bit less crazy than 2020 so far, but plenty of notable stuff has already happened. So, we decided to partner with our friends over at the Towards Data Science podcast, hosted by co-founder of ShapestMinds Jeremie Harris. Specifically, we discuss: This avocado armchair could be the future of AI, For Its Latest Trick Facial-Recognition Tools in Spotlight in New Jersey False Arrest Case New' Nirvana Song Created 27 Years After Kurt Cobain's Death Via AI Software As well as the general trends these stories represent. Subscribe: RSS \| iTunes \| Spotify \| YouTube Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
	AI for Shaming Politicians, the New AI Art Scene, DeepFake Phishing	16 Jul 2021	00:25:07
Our 64th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news This week: This AI publicly shames politicians, but don’t laugh just yet AI-Generated Art Scene Explodes as Hackers Create Groundbreaking New Tools What A Long, Strange Trip It's Been: EleutherAI One Year Retrospective YouTube’s recommender AI still a horrorshow, finds major crowdsourced study Attackers use ‘offensive AI’ to create deepfakes for phishing campaigns Elon Musk admits self-driving is harder than he thought as Tesla owners troll him over missed deadlines Subscribe: RSS \| iTunes \| Spotify \| YouTube Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/124 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
	An AI Serial Killer, Scary Good Voice AI, Robot Rock, Israel‘s AI-powered Weapons	09 Jul 2021	00:25:33
Our 63rd Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Subscribe: RSS \| iTunes \| Spotify \| YouTube This week: Voice AI is scary good now. Video game actors hate it. Robot rock: can big tech pick pop’s next megastar? Study finds that few major AI research papers consider negative impacts Researchers turn to machine learning to predict when immunotherapy will be effective Amazon is using algorithms with little human intervention to fire Flex workers Israel used world's first AI-guided combat drone swarm in Gaza attacks Google's algorithm misidentified an engineer as a serial killer Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/123 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
	Sean McGregor on the AI Incident Database and the AI XPRIZE	06 Jul 2021	00:34:26
An interview with Sean McGregor, the ML architect at the neural accelerator startup Syntiant who also works with the XPRIZE Foundation and is the creator and maintainer of the Partnership on AI's Incident Database. Subscribe: RSS \| iTunes \| Spotify \| YouTube Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
	AI for COVID detection fails, GitHub's Copilot can code, GAN Theft Auto is fun	01 Jul 2021	00:39:14
Our 62nd Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! On this episode, more controllable GAN, more controllable language models, AI for wildfires and reading lips, being critical of human oversight of AI, surveillance by AI in China, and some fun AI weirdness. This week: Google Survey Explores Methods for Making DL Models ‘Smaller, Faster, and Better’ Machine learning models that detect COVID-19 on chest X-rays are not suitable for clinical use GitHub and OpenAI launch a new AI tool that generates its own code What’s Going on With Amazon’s “High-Tech” Warehouse Robots? How Twitter hired tech's biggest critics to build ethical AI LinkedIn’s job-matching AI was biased. The company’s solution? More AI. GAN Theft Auto is a snippet of GTA 5 made by AI Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/122 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
	Jordan Harrod on being an AI researcher and educator	29 Jun 2021	00:53:05
An interview with Jordan Harrod, a PhD Candidate in the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology program, a YouTuber who creates educational videos about AI, and an advocate for evidence-based policy. Subscribe: RSS \| iTunes \| Spotify \| YouTube Check out her channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/JordanHarrod Detailed bio: Jordan Harrod is a Ph.D. Candidate in Medical Engineering and Medical Physics at the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology program. Her research focuses on using neuromodulation to understand pain and consciousness, and using neurotechnology and machine learning to develop new tools for brain stimulation. She is also a significant communicator and educator focused on AI, with her YouTube channel having many videos on how we interact with artificial intelligence in our daily lives, and she is also the Chief Operating Officer of the MIT Science Policy Review, a peer-reviewed science policy journal. Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
	Making AI Less Racist and Terrible, AI for Wildfires and Reading Lips, Fun AI Facts about Fun Guys	24 Jun 2021	00:23:16
Our 61st Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! On this episode, more controllable GAN, more controllable language models, AI for wildfires and reading lips, being critical of human oversight of AI, surveillance by AI in China, and some fun AI weirdness. Check out our interview with the creator of AI Weirdness (that we discuss as our last article) here: https://www.letstalkai.show/e/ai-weirdness-interview/ This week: Harnessing the Wild Power of AI Image Generation The Efforts to Make Text-Based AI Less Racist and Terrible AI Could Spot Wildfires Faster Than Humans Tech Companies Are Training AI to Read Your Lips The False Comfort of Human Oversight as an Antidote to A.I. Harm China's tech workers pushed to limits by surveillance software Fun Facts about Fun Guys Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/121 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
	DeepMind on General AI, Creepy Fake Humans, City Brains	17 Jun 2021	00:28:00
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 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
	Is GPT-3 Dissapointing, Killer Robots (?), the AI Hall of Shame	10 Jun 2021	00:25:27
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 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
	#167 - GPT-4o, Project Astra, Veo, OpenAI Departures, Interview with Andrey	19 May 2024	01:43:02
Our 167th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With guest host Daliana Liu (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dalianaliu/) from The Data Scientist Show! And a special one-time interview with Andrey in the latter part of the podcast. Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai and/or hello@gladstone.ai Timestamps + links: Intro / Banter Tools & Apps (00:03:42) OpenAI releases GPT-4o, a faster model that’s free for all ChatGPT users (00:12:06) Project Astra is the future of AI at Google (00:18:06) Google is redesigning its search engine — and it’s AI all the way down (00:19:39) Google unveils Veo and Imagen 3, its latest AI media creation models (00:23:36) Google Unveils Music AI Sandbox Making Loops From Prompts (00:26:27) Anthropic AI Launches a Prompt Engineering Tool that Generates Production-Ready Prompts in the Anthropic Console Applications & Business (00:31:02) OpenAI’s Chief Scientist and Co-Founder Is Leaving the Company (00:35:15) Mike Krieger joins Anthropic as Chief Product Officer (00:36:28) $16k G1 humanoid rises up to smash nuts, twist and twirl (00:41:02) GM's Cruise to start testing robotaxis in Phoenix area with human safety drivers on board (00:42:52) US agency probes Amazon-owned Zoox self-driving vehicles after two crashes (00:43:58) Waymo’s robotaxis under investigation after crashes and traffic mishaps Projects & Open Source (00:44:48) Introducing PaliGemma, Gemma 2, and an Upgraded Responsible AI Toolkit (00:46:24) Falcon 2: UAE’s Technology Innovation Institute Releases New AI Model Series, Outperforming Meta’s New Llama 3 (00:48:00) License to Call: Introducing Transformers Agents 2.0 Research & Advancements (00:49:22) The Platonic Representation Hypothesis (00:53:08) SUTRA: Scalable Multilingual Language Model Architecture Policy & Safety (00:54:46) Bipartisan Senate bill on AI security would bolster voluntary cyber reporting processes (00:56:17) U.K. agency releases tools to test AI model safety (00:57:25) Protesters Are Fighting to Stop AI, but They’re Split on How to Do It Synthetic Media & Art (00:58:54) Google’s invisible AI watermark will help identify generative text and video (01:00:50) How One Author Pushed the Limits of AI Copyright (01:03:27) Stellaris gets an DLC about AI that features AI-created voices, director insists it's 'ethical' and 'we're pretty good at exploring dystopian sci-fi and don't want to end up there ourselves' (01:04:46) At the AI Film Festival, humanity triumphed over tech (01:06:37) Daliana Interviews Andrey (01:42:00) AI Outro Song
	Blatant Academic Fraud, OpenAI's New Sibling, a Killer Drone?!	04 Jun 2021	00:39:02
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 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
	GPT-Neo, Wav2Vec-U, Deepfake Dubs, Michelangelo AI, History of Ethical AI at Google	28 May 2021	00:34:42
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 Sharing learnings about our image cropping algorithm Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/117 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
	Janelle Shane on the Weirdness of AI	25 May 2021	00:54:19
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'. Subscribe: RSS \| iTunes \| Spotify \| YouTube 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. Check out coverage of similar topics at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
	Elon Musk's Self Driving Claims, AI Ethics at Google, Photorealistic GTA 5	20 May 2021	00:26:22
Our 56th Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: Google Plans to Double AI Ethics Research Staff Grand Theft Auto Looks Frighteningly Photorealistic With This Machine Learning Technique 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 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
	Satellite Image Data, Moderating AI Dungeon, Consolidating Autonomous Vehicles	13 May 2021	00:24:25
Our 55th Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: China makes "world's largest satellite image database" to train AI better How to stop AI from recognizing your face in selfies 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 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
	Rethinking Conferences, Chinese GPT-3, Farming Robots, Lyft's AV Sale	07 May 2021	00:35:34
Our 54th Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: Rethinking large conferences Google and UC Berkeley Propose Green Strategies for Large Neural Network Training 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 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
	AI Einstein, Medical Alexas, 1.4 Trillion Transistor AI Chip	29 Apr 2021	00:26:33
Our 53drd Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: AI-driven audio cloning startup gives voice to Einstein chatbot Can Medical Alexas Make Us Healthier? 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 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
	Tesla Deaths, 2.6 Million DeepFakes, Europe AI Regulations	22 Apr 2021	00:27:43
Our 52nd Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: Europe seeks to limit use of AI in society 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 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
	AI Nirvana Song, Facebook Fairness Dataset, No-Code AI	16 Apr 2021	00:36:14
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)
	The Pioneers of Modern AI with Cade Metz, author of "Genius Makers"	12 Apr 2021	00:59:17
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 Follow Cade on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CadeMetz/ And on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cademetz/ Subscribe: RSS \| iTunes \| Spotify \| YouTube Check out coverage of similar topics at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
	#166 - new AI song generator, Microsoft's GPT4 efforts, AlphaFold3, xLSTM, OpenAI Model Spec	12 May 2024	01:41:24
Our 166th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai and/or hello@gladstone.ai Timestamps + links: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter Tools & Apps (00:04:23) ElevenLabs previews music-generating AI model (00:09:31) Mysterious “gpt2-chatbot” AI model appears suddenly, confuses experts (00:13:00) SoundHound AI and Perplexity Partner to Bring Online LLMs to Next Gen Voice Assistants Across Cars and IoT Devices (00:14:50) Stability AI sows gen AI discord with Stable Artisan (00:16:35) Apple Will Revamp Siri to Catch Up to Its Chatbot Competitors (00:18:54) Alibaba rolls out latest version of its large language model to meet robust AI demand Applications & Business (00:19:34) OpenAI and Stack Overflow partner to bring more technical knowledge into ChatGPT (00:17:31) New Microsoft AI model may challenge GPT-4 and Google Gemini (00:31:08) Wayve, an A.I. Start-Up for Autonomous Driving, Raises $1 Billion (00:32:00) Motional delays commercial robotaxi plans amid restructuring (00:33:54) The rise of the Chinese AI unicorns doing battle with OpenAI Projects & Open Source (00:35:25) Prometheus 2: An Open Source Language Model Specialized in Evaluating Other Language Models (00:40:12) DeepSeek-V2: A Strong, Economical, and Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Language Model (00:44:31) OpenVoice V2: Evolving Multilingual Voice Cloning with Enhanced Style Control and Cross-Lingual Capabilities (00:45:20) Granite Code Models: A Family of Open Foundation Models for Code Intelligence (00:46:00) Hugging Face launches LeRobot open source robotics code library (00:48:50) Vibe-Eval: A new open and hard evaluation suite for measuring progress of multimodal language models Research & Advancements (00:50:02) Google DeepMind’s Groundbreaking AI for Protein Structure Can Now Model DNA (00:57:20) xLSTM: Extended Long Short-Term Memory (01:06:35) StoryDiffusion: Consistent Self-Attention for Long-Range Image and Video Generation (01:07:55) Chain of Thought Empowers Transformers to Solve Inherently Serial Problems (01:11:48) KAN: Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks Policy & Safety (01:13:20) US lawmakers unveil bill to make it easier to restrict exports of AI models (01:17:30) OpenAI’s Model Spec outlines some basic rules for AI (01:20:18) Robot dogs armed with AI-targeting rifles undergo US Marines Special Ops evaluation (01:25:15) OpenAI Releases ‘Deepfake’ Detector to Disinformation Researchers Synthetic Media & Art (01:28:15) Audible’s Test of AI-Voiced Audiobooks Tops 40,000 Titles (01:32:30) TikTok will automatically label AI-generated content created on platforms like DALL·E 3 (01:33:23) Katy Perry's Fan-Made AI Image Is So Real It Fooled the World Into Thinking She Was at the Met Gala (01:35:32) South Korean woman falls for deepfake Elon Musk, loses $50K in romance scam (01:37:18) Why young Russian women appear so eager to marry Chinese men (01:40:18) AI Outro Song
	Boston Dynamics, DeepFake Amazon Workers, Systematic Labeling Errors	11 Apr 2021	00:31:32
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)
	AI Growth, OpenAI's Smart Neurons, Disease Sniffing AI	11 Mar 2021	00:34:19
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)
	GPT-3 NPCs, Rebel AI Startups, A Cute AI Book	09 Mar 2021	00:24:41
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)
	More Unethical AI Research, More Google Drama, More Clearview AI	26 Feb 2021	00:27:19
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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