Last Week in AI
Episodes
Rethinking Conferences, Chinese GPT-3, Farming Robots, Lyft's AV Sale
07 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
AI Einstein, Medical Alexas, 1.4 Trillion Transistor AI Chip
29 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 voi...
Tesla Deaths, 2.6 Million DeepFakes, Europe AI Regulations
22 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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...
AI Nirvana Song, Facebook Fairness Dataset, No-Code AI
16 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ne...
The Pioneers of Modern AI with Cade Metz, author of "Genius Makers"
12 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
An interview with Cade Metz, a New York Times reporter covering artificial intelligence, driverless cars, robotics, virtual reality, and other emergin...
Boston Dynamics, DeepFake Amazon Workers, Systematic Labeling Errors
11 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
AI Growth, OpenAI's Smart Neurons, Disease Sniffing AI
11 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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...
GPT-3 NPCs, Rebel AI Startups, A Cute AI Book
09 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
More Unethical AI Research, More Google Drama, More Clearview AI
26 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 Cle...
AI Against COVID 19, Regulating DeepFake Porn, the State of Self Driving Cars
18 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our 46th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: Georgia Startup Races to Complete AI-powered Voice Screenin...
Facial Recognition and Privacy, Amazon AI Cameras, AI in Health Care
11 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our 45th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: This is how we lost control of our faces Here’s a Way t...
Detecting Surveillance, Autonomous Weapons, National AI Compute Needs
04 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our 44th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: These crowdsourced maps will show exactly where surveillance...
Bad Uses of AI, Google and Margaret Mitchell, AI for Fairer Healthcare
28 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jan 20th, 2021 by Chatbot Gone Awry Starts Conversations About AI Ethics in South Korea Google Sidelines Second Artificial Intelligence Researcher Thi...
Clearview AI in the Capitol, Medical AI Regulation, DeepFake Text
21 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: Use of Clearview AI facial recognition tech spiked as law ...
OpenAI‘s Image Models, US‘s New Provisions for AI, NeurIPS Discussion
14 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: This avocado armchair could be the future of AI For Its La...
NY‘s moratorium on facial recognition, deepfakes in 2020, and more!
07 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: Google tolds its scientists to ‘strike a positive tone’...
A narrowing of AI research? with Juan Mateos-Garcia
12 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
An interview with Juan Mateos-Garcia, the Director of Data Analytics at Nesta (the UK's Innovation Foundation) where he leads a team of data scientist...
The firing of Dr.Timnit Gebru, AlphaFold, and Unions Against AI
10 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: Google Researcher Says She Was Fired Over Paper Highlight...
The De-democratization of AI: Deep Learning and the Compute Divide in Artificial Intelligence Research with Nur Ahmed
05 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
An interview with Nur Ahmed, a Strategy PhD candidate at Ivey Business School, Western University, Canada and a Research Fellow at the ScotiaBank Digi...
To PhD or not to PhD, AI Bias, Facial Recognition Ethics, GPT-3
03 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: Why you shouldn’t get your Ph.D. Why you should get ...
Machine Learning for Art with Google's Emil Wallner
28 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
An interview with Emil Wallner, the creator of mlart.co . Emil is an internet-educated, independent machine learning researcher, and resident at the G...
The way we train AI is fundamentally flawed, bias, the compute divide
26 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: The way we train AI is fundamentally flawed Facebook’s i...
AI‘s replication crisis, reddit discussions, government-sponsored medical AI
19 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: AI is wrestling with a replication crisis The US Governmen...
Geoff Hinton‘s Hot Take, Robots in Walmart and Art, Confidence in AI for Healthcare
13 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: AI pioneer Geoff Hinton: “Deep learning is going to be a...
OpenAI's "Scaling Laws for Autoregressive Generative Modeling"
08 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
An interview with Tom Henighan, a member of the technical staff at OpenAI working on the safety team, about the recent paper “Scaling Laws for Autor...
Yann LeCun on GPT-3, New Google Projects, Inequality, GPT-3 on Hacker News
05 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
NOTE: audio for andrey is a bit rough this week, sorry! Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: ...
DeepNude Bot, Tesla Full Self Driving, Google AI US-Mexico Border
29 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week Automating Image Abuse: deepfake bots on Telegram, Activists...
The Top Myths About AI
25 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
An interview with Daniel Leufer and Alexa Steinbrück about their project AIMyths.org. Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Check out coverag...
Accessible AI, Partnership on AI, Dataset Compression, Military AI
22 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week Microsoft and partners aim to shrink the ‘data desert’ limi...
Measurement in AI Policy: Opportunities and Challenges
20 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
An interview with Jack Clark and Raymond Perrault about their recent paper Measurement in AI Policy: Opportunities and Challenges. Subscribe: RSS | iT...
GPT-3 on reddit, Facial Recognition in Argentina, Stats on Big Tech Financing Academics
15 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week A GPT-3 bot posted comments on Reddit for a week and no one not...
Working With Robots in a Post-Pandemic World
10 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
An interview with Professor Matt Beane about his recent paper Working With Robots in a Post-Pandemic World, co-authored with Professor Erik Brynjolfss...
DeepFake Dictators, AI Sepsis Watch, Biased Exam Monitoring
08 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week How an AI tool for fighting hospital deaths actually worked i...
DeepLearning.AI GANs for Good Panel + Q&A
04 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Courtesy of our regular host Sharon, an except from the event celebrating a new course on GANs she teaches. See the full event here: https://youtu.be/...
Bias in Twitter & Zoom, LAPD Facial Recognition, GPT-3 Exclusivity
01 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week Twitter and Zoom’s algorithmic bias issues, Despite past den...
Face Mask Recognition, Detecting Disinformation, Protecting Kids, and Uber‘s Crash
24 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week Face mask recognition has arrived - for better or worse, Google...
The Evolving Impact of Robots on Jobs
19 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
An interview with Professors Jong Hyun Chung and Yong Suk Lee about their recent paper The Evolving Impact of Robots on Jobs. Subscribe: RSS | iTunes ...
GPT-3 Clickbait, Wildfires, Heroes, Standards, Exports
17 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week Hope Returns to the Machine Learning Universe, California U...
Heartbeat DeepFake Detection, Robot Drug Tests, Ethics as a Service
10 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week AI researchers use heartbeat detection to identify deepfake vid...
DeepFake Ads and Memes, New AI Ethics, and AI for Emergency Response
04 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week "Hulu deepfaked its new ad. It won’t be the last.", "Memers a...
U.S. Public Opinion about AI with Professor Paul Brewer and co-authors
02 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
An interview with Professor Paul Brewer and PhD Students James Bingaman and Ashely Paintsil about their new survey paper "Media Messages and U.S. Publ...
Machine Learning + Procedural Content Generation with Julian Togelius and Sebastian Risi
29 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
An interview with Professors Julian Togelius and Sebastian Risi about their new survey paper "Increasing generality in machine learning through proced...
Hate Speech, Applied AI, NYPD, & Grades
26 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our latest roundup of last week's big AI news! Plus, Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss the news and offer their thoughts. W...
AI Setting Grades, ICE Pays Clearview, and Much More
22 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories. Please fill out the listener survey: bit.ly/ltasurvey...
The Alexa Prize Challenge with Stanford's Abigail See and Ashwin Paranjape
20 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
An interview with Stanford AI Lab PhDs Abigal See and Ashwin Paranjape about their involvement with the Alexa Prize Challenge and what it took to enab...
Mini Episode: ICE/Clearview, Race Detection and Schools
16 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our thirteenth audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news! This week, we look at the ICE/Clearview AI contract, the growth of race detection soft...
2020, China, Face Recognition, and DeepFakes
14 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories, relating to AI's struggles in 2020, Chinese AI surveil...
Mini Episode: TikTok, Cheap Deepfakes, AI in 2020, and Deference
09 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our twelfth audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news! This week, we look at Microsoft's reasons for the TikTok acquisition, how depefakes are b...
BLM, Genderify, Jobs, and AI Parody
07 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories, relating to Black Lives Matter, the disaster that was ...
Mini Episode: Two Facial Recognition Stories, A Reckoning for NLP, and ”Self-Programming Computers
02 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our eleventh audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news! This week, we look at two recent stories on facial recognition, why Natural Language Pro...
Mini Episode: AI Fashion Models, AI for Job Hopping, Facebook Simulations, and Weird A.I. Yankovic
26 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our tenth audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news! This week, we look at how AI might threaten fashion models' jobs, how AI is being used to p...
GPT-3, Limits of Deep Learning, Deepfakes in the Real World
26 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories. Check out all the stories discussed here and more a...
On the State of AI Ethics Report with its authors
24 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
An interview with the Founder of the Montreal AI Ethics Institute Abhishek Gupta, as well as fellow AI Ethics researchers Camylle Lanteigne, Muriam Fa...
Mini Episode: Pentagon AI, Deep Learning‘s Limits, Discharging Patients, and Robust AI
20 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our ninth audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news! This week, we look at the Pentagon's Joint AI Center, recent research on the computational ...
Therapy Chatbots, AI Ethics at Google, and Higher-Res Climate Data
19 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories. Check out all the stories discussed here and more at w...
Creators of "The Gradient" on its Origins and Purpose
16 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A chat among several of the founders of online AI-focused magazine The Gradient (thegradient.pub) about its origins and purpose. Subscribe: RSS | iTu...
Mini Episode: AI Therapists, Facial Recognition in Detroit, Decolonialism in AI, and Deepfakes for Corporate Training
12 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our eighth audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news! This week, we look at the rise of AI therapy bots, the fight against facial recognition in...
ACM on Facial Recognition, National AI Cloud, and Positive DeepFakes
10 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories. Check out all the stories discussed here and more at w...
Mini Episode: Redeeming AI, More Lessons in AI Bias, and a National AI Research Cloud
05 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our seventh audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news! This week, we look at how an HBO documentary is using deepfake technology for good, a new...
False Facial Recognition, Biased AI Drama, and Neo-Phrenology
04 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories. Check out all the stories discussed here and more at w...
Mini Episode: Lessons in AI bias, Facial Recognition Policy and Effects, and Trump‘s Visa Freeze
28 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our sixth audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news! This week, we look at how one deep learning pioneer still seems to have something to learn ...
On Shaping the Global Terrain of AI Competition with Tim Hwang
25 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Stanford AI Lab PhD Andrey Kurenkov interviews Tim Hwang, Research Fellow at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) about h...
Mini Episode: Startup News, NeurIPS Changes, and US-China Tensions
21 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our fifth audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news! This week, we look at more news from Boston Dynamics, a new MIT startup that wants to help ...
The Path to Facial Recognition Reform and Regulation
19 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories. Check out all the stories discussed here and more at w...
Mini Episode: More Facial Recognition, Racism in Academia, and the latest in Commercial AI
14 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our fourth audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news! This week, we look at recent progress in curtailing the development of facial recognition ...
Facial Recognition and Police, Protests, Regulation
14 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories. Check out all the stories discussed here and more at w...
Mini Episode: Police Surveillance, Productivity, and Calls for Regulation and Cooperation
07 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our third audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news! This week, we look at the how the police are using surveillance against civil rights protes...
Black Lives Matter in AI, the Peril of DeepFakes and Fake Progress
07 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories. Check out all the stories discussed here and more at w...
Mini Episode: Clearview, the G7, Shopping, and AI-Assisted Journalism
31 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our second audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news! This week, we look at the ACLU's lawsuit against Clearview AI, an international AI group a...
More Ethical Quagmires, More Surveillance, and more Academia Talk
31 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories. Check out all the stories discussed here and more at w...
Mini Episode: Self Driving Ignorance, AI Surveillance, Nvidia‘s AI Pacman
25 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our first audio round up of last week's noteworthy AI news! This week, a discussion of peoples' awareness of self driving technology, surveillance by ...
AI Gets More Efficient, Improves Taxation, and Looks Out For Masks
17 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories. Check out all the stories discussed here and more at w...
Data Science and AI for COVID-19 with Professor James Zou and Dr. Irena Fisher-Hwang
13 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Stanford AI Lab PhD Andrey Kurenkov interviews Professor James Zou and Doctor Irena Fisher-Hwang about their new class CS472: Data Science and AI for ...
AI Fails to Read PDFs, OpenAI Jukebox, and more!
09 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories. Check out all the stories discussed here and more at w...
AI Fails to Diagnose COVID-19, Difficulties with AI Regulation, and more on Surveillance
02 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories. Check out all the stories discussed here and more at w...
Mechanisms for AI Safety, Beyond Supervised Learning, and AI for Science
26 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories. Check out all the stories discussed here and more at w...
AI News Coverage, Pseudo AI Companies, and more on COVID-19
18 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories. Check out all the stories discussed here and more at w...
AI for COVID-19 with Professor Matthew Lungren
15 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Stanford AI Lab PhD Sharon Zhou interviews Professor Matthew Lungren about the efforts to leverage AI to help with the coronavirus crisis, the promise...
Reading Brain Waves, AI Goliaths, & more on COVID-19
11 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Tired of constantly hearing about COVID-19? So are Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou, who mostly discuss non virus related stories ...
Bias in Voice Recognition, Debates in AI, and Robotics in the Time of COVID-19
04 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou cover news about bias in commercial voice recognition systems, a debate about the future of AI, a...
More on AI, COVID-19, and Revised Research Practices
26 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou cover more news stories related to how AI helps tackle the coronavirus crisis and how research is...
AI‘s Role in Fighting COVID-19 and in Surveilling Us
19 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Stanford AI Lab PhDs discuss news stories related to how AI helps tackle the coronavirus crisis, and more on mass surveillance. Check out all the stor...
Hello World, Surveillance, and New Research Practices
13 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hello World! Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss news stories related to mass-deployment of facial recognition and responsibl...