Last Week in AI
Episodes 298 total
Mini Episode: ICE/Clearview, Race Detection and Schools
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 software, and…
2020, China, Face Recognition, and DeepFakes
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 surveillance, too…
Mini Episode: TikTok, Cheap Deepfakes, AI in 2020, and Deference
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 becoming ch…
BLM, Genderify, Jobs, and AI Parody
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 Genderify…
Mini Episode: Two Facial Recognition Stories, A Reckoning for NLP, and ”Self-Programming Computers
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 Processing re…
Mini Episode: AI Fashion Models, AI for Job Hopping, Facebook Simulations, and Weird A.I. Yankovic
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 predict job…
GPT-3, Limits of Deep Learning, Deepfakes in the Real World
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 www.skyne…
On the State of AI Ethics Report with its authors
An interview with the Founder of the Montreal AI Ethics Institute Abhishek Gupta, as well as fellow AI Ethics researchers Camylle Lanteigne, Muriam Fancy, Ryan…
Mini Episode: Pentagon AI, Deep Learning‘s Limits, Discharging Patients, and Robust AI
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 limits of…
Therapy Chatbots, AI Ethics at Google, and Higher-Res Climate Data
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 www.skynett…
Creators of "The Gradient" on its Origins and Purpose
A chat among several of the founders of online AI-focused magazine The Gradient (thegradient.pub) about its origins and purpose. Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spoti…
Mini Episode: AI Therapists, Facial Recognition in Detroit, Decolonialism in AI, and Deepfakes for Corporate Training
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 Detroit…
ACM on Facial Recognition, National AI Cloud, and Positive DeepFakes
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 www.skynett…
Mini Episode: Redeeming AI, More Lessons in AI Bias, and a National AI Research Cloud
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 system to…
False Facial Recognition, Biased AI Drama, and Neo-Phrenology
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 www.skynett…
Mini Episode: Lessons in AI bias, Facial Recognition Policy and Effects, and Trump‘s Visa Freeze
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 about AI b…
On Shaping the Global Terrain of AI Competition with Tim Hwang
Stanford AI Lab PhD Andrey Kurenkov interviews Tim Hwang, Research Fellow at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) about his new repor…
Mini Episode: Startup News, NeurIPS Changes, and US-China Tensions
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 you do dee…
The Path to Facial Recognition Reform and Regulation
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 www.skynett…
Mini Episode: More Facial Recognition, Racism in Academia, and the latest in Commercial AI
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 technology…