AI for Algorithms, Chemical Weapons, Zelenskyy Deepfake, Border Control

Our 90th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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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 Efficiency Compared to Transformers

  • (16:15) Lightning Round

• Society & Ethics

  • (17:33) AI and disinformation in the Russia-Ukraine war  + Deepfake Zelenskyy surrender video is the 'first intentionally used' in Ukraine war

  • (19:28) Powered by artificial intelligence, ‘autonomous’ border towers test Democrats’ support for surveillance technology

  • (23:15) Lightning round

• Fun & Neat

  • (25:05) AI-generated utopias 

  • (26:51) Building games and apps entirely through natural language using OpenAI’s code-davinci model

• (29:15) Outro