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#104 - Cruise Outages, Robots for Forestry, BigScience’s BLOOM, EU AI Act
Episode 142
Our 104th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Note: there was a delay in editing, so this news is from two weeks ago.
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Outline:
- (00:00) Intro
- (01:10) Cruise’s Robot Car Outages Are Jamming Up San Francisco
- (05:00) Japan's forestry industry tests robots to address labor shortage
- (07:12) FIFA will track players’ bodies using AI to make offside calls at 2022 World Cup
- (08:30) Words matter: AI can predict salaries based on the text of online job postings
- (09:12) Photographer Successfully Uses Dall-E 2 AI to Edit his Photos
- (09:10) Google engineer identifies anonymous faces in WWII photos with AI facial recognition
- (10:00)Google AI Introduces Minerva: A Natural Language Processing (NLP) Model That Solves Mathematical Questions
- (13:16) A year in the making, BigScience’s AI language model is finally available
- (15:55) Meta open sources early-stage AI translation tool that works across 200 languages
- (16:18) Computer scientists' interactive program aids motion planning for environments with obstacles
- (16:48)Microsoft AI Researchers Open-Source ‘GODEL’: A Large Scale Pre-Trained Language Model For Dialog
- (17:35) Fake Friends and the Real Threat of AI-Generated Influencers
- (22:05) The Fight Over Which Uses of AI Europe Should Outlaw
- (25:10) Waymo, UPS, others pressure Gov. Newsom to allow autonomous trucking in California
- (26:10) More and more CS students are interested in AI – and there aren't enough lecturers
- (27:03) US safety regulators open special investigation into Cruise
Published on 3 years, 5 months ago