Age Checks, Theft Prevention, Minecraft AI, Autism, Responsible AI

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 AI-powered bots to set up payment plans with taxpayers over the phone 

• (14:10) General Motors is using AI to speed up the vehicle inspection process 

• (14:55) Learning to Play Minecraft with Video PreTraining (VPT)

• (21:10) AI Detects Autism Speech Patterns Across Different Languages 

• (25:15) Meta releases largest open source AI language model to date 

• (26:05) Google's Parti Generator Relies on 20 Billion Inputs to Create Photorealistic Images 

• (27:30) New hybrid machine learning forecasts lake ecosystem responses to climate change 

• (30:04) Cerebras Systems Sets Record for Largest AI Models Ever Trained on a Single Device 

• (30:05) Pentagon Unveils Plan to Make 'Responsible Military AI' More Than Just a Buzzword 

• (34:43) Microsoft Plans to Eliminate Face Analysis Tools in Push for ‘Responsible A.I.’ 

• (37:40) Vitali Klitschko fake tricks Berlin mayor in video call 

• (38:17) China’s Surveillance State Is Growing. These Documents Reveal How.

• (39:03) Earthquake tech could limit deaths. Afghanistan shows it’s not easy. 

• (40:00) Alexa has a new voice — your dead relative’s 

• (41:18) Wordalle is a guess-the-prompt game that combines Wordle and DALL-E

• (43:25) The King’s Swedish: AI Rewrites the Book in Scandinavia 

• (45:35) Outro