Let's Talk AI

Our 109th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! If you are a fan, we'd appreciate your feedback! Feel free to let us know your thoughts via a review on Apple Podcast, email to contact@lastweekin.ai, or just DM us on Twitter! Outline: (00:00) Intro(03:08) Elon Musk shows off humanoid robot prototype at Tesla AI Day(07:15) It’s not just floods and fires: This AI forecasts how climate change will impact your city (10:00) Artificial Intelligence Spending Grew 20.7%...

Our 108th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Subscribe Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube RSS If you are a fan, we'd appreciate your feedback! Feel free to let us know your thoughts via a review on Apple Podcast, email to contact@lastweekin.ai, or just DM us on Twitter! Outline (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...

Our 107th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! If you are a fan, we'd appreciate your feedback! Feel free to let us know your thoughts via a review on Apple Podcast, email to contact@lastweekin.ai, or just DM us on Twitter! Outline (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...

Our 105th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Subscribe Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube RSS If you are a fan, we'd appreciate your feedback! Feel free to let us know your thoughts via a review on Apple Podcast, email to contact@lastweekin.ai, or just DM us on Twitter! Outline: (00:00) Intro (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...

Our 104th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Subscribe Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube RSS If you are a fan, we'd appreciate your feedback! Feel free to let us know your thoughts via a review on Apple Podcast, email to contact@lastweekin.ai, or just DM us on Twitter! 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...

Our 103rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Outline: (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...

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! If you are a fan, we'd appreciate your feedback! Feel free to let us know your thoughts via a review on Apple Podcast, email to contact@lastweekin.ai, or just DM us on Twitter! Outline: (00:00) Intro (01:05) LaMDA’s Sentience is Nonsense -...

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! If you are a fan, we'd appreciate your feedback! Feel free to let us know your thoughts via a review on Apple Podcast, email to contact@lastweekin.ai, or just DM us on Twitter! Subscribe Apple...

Our 100th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! If you are a fan, we'd appreciate your feedback! Feel free to let us know your thoughts via a review on Apple Podcast, email to contact@lastweekin.ai, or just DM us on Twitter! Subscribe Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube RSS Outline: (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...

Our 99th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Subscribe Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube RSS Outline: (00:00) Intro (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...

Our 98th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Subscribe Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube RSS Sponsor: This episode is sponsored by Zencastr, our go-to tool for recording the podcast. It is super easy to use, and there is nothing to download. Go to http://zen.ai/lastweekinai and get 30% off your first three months with a PRO account! Outline: (00:00) Intro (2:22) Autonomous cargo ship completes 500 mile voyage, avoiding hundreds of collisions (6:47)...

Our 97th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Subscribe Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube RSS Sponsor: This episode is sponsored by Zencastr, our go-to tool for recording the podcast. It is super easy to use, and there is nothing to download. Go to http://zen.ai/lastweekinai and get 30% off your first three months with a PRO account! Outline: (00:00) Intro (01:25) Hugging Face reaches $2 billion valuation to build the GitHub of machine learning (4:30)...

Our 96th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Subscribe Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube RSS Sponsor: This episode is sponsored by Zencastr, our go-to tool for recording the podcast. It is super easy to use, and there is nothing to download. Go to http://zen.ai/lastweekinai and get 30% off your first three months with a PRO account! Outline: (00:00) Intro (01:36) Wearable, AI-powered whole-breast ultrasound system cleared by the FDA + FDA plays tooth...

Our 95th Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Subscribe Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube RSS Outline: (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...

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 Subscribe Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube RSS Outline: (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...

Our 93nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Subscribe Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube RSS Outline: 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,...

Our 92nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Subscribe Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube RSS Outline: (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...

Our 91st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Subscribe Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube RSS Outline Applications & Business 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,...

Our 90th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Subscribe: RSS | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube Outline: (00:00) Intro 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...

Our 89th Last Week in AI podcast episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Subscribe: RSS | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube Outline: (00:00) Intro Applications & Business (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...