AI Kills Cookie Pop-Ups, Models Volcanoes, Screens for Child Neglect, Paints Harry Potter

Our 95th Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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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 taxi license in China

    • VisionNav Robotics closes $80M for AGVs

    • Armed with new $150 million raise, Oregon robotics startup sets its sights on Pittsburgh

• Research & Advancements

  • (13:00) Machine Learning Helps See into a Volcano’s Depths

  • (17:30) Jurassic-X: Crossing the Neuro-Symbolic Chasm with the MRKL System

  • Lighting Round

    • Engineers use artificial intelligence to capture the complexity of breaking waves -

    • Which Animal Viruses Could Infect People? Computers Are Racing to Find Out. -

    • From blurry to bright: AI tech helps researchers peer into the brains of mice

    • AI predicts lung cancer tumor growth after radiation : NHS study "

• (24:15) Ad break

• Society & Ethics

  • (25:30) An algorithm that screens for child neglect raises concerns

  • (30:30) IBM research details AI skills gap across Europe

  • (33:20) Lighting Round

    • U.S. Senate Democrats urge Buttigieg to develop autonomous vehicle rules

    • Tough questions, few answers: The FDA wrestles with its approach to AI in medicine

    • Lyft exec Craig Martell tapped as Pentagon’s AI chief

    • The risks of attacks that involve poisoning training data for machine learning models

• Fun & Neat

  • (35:45) Q&A: Inside DARPA’s Subterranean Challenge

  • (39:15) This Woman Used AI To Show What "Harry Potter" Characters Would Look Like In Real Life Based On Their Book Descriptions, And My Jaw Is On The Floor

• (41:56) Outro