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#90 - AI for Algorithms, Chemical Weapons, Zelenskyy Deepfake, Border Control

2022/3/24
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Our 90th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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