AI for Omicron, Self-Farming Farms, AI-designed beer, Robo-Dogs and Cuddly AI

Our 83rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Check out these stories and many more via text in Last Week in AI #151.

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Outline:

• (00:00) Intro

• (01:10) This AI Software Nearly Predicted Omicron’s Tricky Structure 

• (02:48) BioNTech and London A.I. company create "early warning system" for COVID-19 variants

• (05:20) We’re one step closer to self-farming farms

• (09:55) ‘We Were Blown Away’: How New A.I. Research Is Changing the Way Conservators and Collectors Think About Attribution

• (12:42) Meta claims its AI improves speech recognition quality by reading lips

• (15:46) The Messy History of Facial Recognition Company Clearview AI

• (18:30) Feds' spending on facial recognition tech expands, despite privacy concerns

• (20:35) Great Resignation Versus Increasing Investment In AI, Robotics And Automation: A Troubling Trend

• (25:55) Github Copilot Wants to Play Chess Instead of Code

• (28:22) AIML machine learning students develop beer using AI

• (31:40) Robo-dogs and therapy bots: Artificial intelligence goes cuddly

• (34:55) Outro