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cover of episode AI for Mathematicians, Timnit Gebru‘s New Research Center, No Ban on Killer Robots, Vertigo AI

AI for Mathematicians, Timnit Gebru‘s New Research Center, No Ban on Killer Robots, Vertigo AI

2021/12/10
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Our 80th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Check our text version of this news roundup over at lastweekin.ai.)

Outline:

(01:10) Procedural storytelling is exploding the possibilities of video game narratives)  (04:16) Twitch Introduces Machine Learning Feature to Detect Suspicious Users) (07:28) DeepMind’s AI helps untangle the mathematics of knots) (11:06) Yale researchers combat biases in machine learning algorithms) (13:40) Ex-Googler Timnit Gebru Starts Her Own AI Research Center) (17:20) US rejects calls for regulating or banning ‘killer robots) (19:50) Who, exactly, authored this AI-generated spin on Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo?)  (25:00) Outro

Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)