Our 109th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Outline:
(00:00) Intro
(03:08) Elon Musk shows off humanoid robot prototype at Tesla AI Day
(07:15) It’s not just floods and fires: This AI forecasts how climate change will impact your city
(10:00) Artificial Intelligence Spending Grew 20.7% Worldwide in 2021, According to IDC
(10:52) Tesla is being sued over Autopilot and Elon Musk’s Full Self-Driving predictions
(11:50) Uber Eats and Nuro sign a 10-year deal to do robot food delivery in California and Texas
(13:00) Announcing the PyTorch Foundation: A new era for the cutting-edge AI framework
(13:45) Meta’s new text-to-video AI generator is like DALL-E for video , Google answers Meta’s video-generating AI with its own, dubbed Imagen Video
(19:05) OpenAI open-sources Whisper, a multilingual speech recognition system
(24:00) Why DeepMind Is Sending AI Humanoids to Soccer Camp
(25:00) How Transformers Seem to Mimic Parts of the Brain
(25:30) NVIDIA's new AI model quickly generates objects and characters for virtual worlds
(26:45) Clearview AI, Used by Police to Find Criminals, Now in Public Defenders’ Hands , House Democrats debut new bill to limit US police use of facial recognition
(30:30) Artist receives first known US copyright registration for generative AI art
(33:14) Getty Images bans AI-generated content over fears of legal challenges
(34:00) A.I. Is Making It Easier Than Ever for Students to Cheat
(34:50) There’s no Tiananmen Square in the new Chinese image-making AI
(35:45) US to invest $50 billion in spring 2023 as it looks to counter Chinese chip development
(36:25) Darth Vader’s Voice Emanated From War-Torn Ukraine
(39:40) I Resurrected "Ugly Sonic" with Stable Diffusion Textual Inversion
(43:00) Artist uses AI to extract color palettes from text descriptions
(43:55) Hellblade developer Ninja Theory confirms it won’t replace voice actors with AI
(45:35) Outro
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