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18 Apr 2025#207 - GPT 4.1, Gemini 2.5 Flash, Ironwood, Claude Max01:42:30

Our 207th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 04/14/2025

Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris. Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai

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Join our Discord here! https://discord.gg/nTyezGSKwP

In this episode:

  • OpenAI introduces GPT-4.1 with optimized coding and instruction-following capabilities, featuring variants like GPT-4.1 Mini and Nano, and a million-token context window.
  • Concerns arise as OpenAI reduces resources for safety testing, sparking internal and external criticisms.
  • XAI's newly launched API for Grok 3 showcases significant capabilities comparable to other leading models.
  • Meta faces allegations of aiding China in AI development for business advantages, with potential compliances and public scrutiny looming.

Timestamps + Links:

24 Jun 2021Making AI Less Racist and Terrible, AI for Wildfires and Reading Lips, Fun AI Facts about Fun Guys00:23:16

This week:

Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/121

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

31 Mar 2024#161 - Claude 3 beats GPT-4, Stability CEO resigns, DBRX, TacticAI, UN resolution on AI01:36:24

Our 161st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

Check out our sponsor, the SuperDataScience podcast. You can listen to SDS across all major podcasting platforms (e.g., Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts) plus there’s a video version on YouTube.

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Note - one extra story we didn't get to but worth knowing from this week: ‘Totally surreal’: OpenAI shares first short films created with new AI tool Sora

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03 Mar 2024#157 - Gemini controversy, new Mistral models, Deepmind's Genie & Griffinn, AI Warfare is here01:44:57

Our 157th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

Check out our sponsor, the SuperDataScience podcast. You can listen to SDS across all major podcasting platforms (e.g., Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts) plus there’s a video version on YouTube.

Bonus plug: also check out this new book by Stanford AI expert, bestselling author, and Last Week in AI supporter Jerry Kaplan! Generative Artificial Intelligence: What Everyone Needs to Know

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25 Oct 2020The Top Myths About AI00:35:57

An interview with Daniel Leufer and Alexa Steinbrück about their project AIMyths.org.

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Check out coverage of similar topics at www.skynettoday.com

Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

 

05 Feb 2023#110 - We’re back! ChatGPT, ChatGPT, ChatGPT, and some other stuff01:13:03

Our 110th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

After a 4 month break, we're back with a new co-host, and will resume our regular weekly upload schedule.

If you are a fan, we'd appreciate your feedback on Apple Podcast.

Stories this week:

17 Mar 2025#203 - Gemini Image Gen, Ascend 910C, Gemma 3, Gemini Robotics01:46:23

Our 203rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 03/14/2025

Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris. Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai

Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/.

Join our Discord here! https://discord.gg/nTyezGSKwP

In this episode:

  • OpenAI's new 'deep research' feature has raised concerns about cybersecurity and the potential misuse of AI models for bio-weapons and autonomous capabilities, prompting new safety and governance measures.
  • Google's extensive $3 billion investment in Anthropic is revealed, aligning with their AI strategy and reinforcing the importance of multiple technology partnerships.
  • Huawei's advancements in the AI chip industry are highlighted, with significant progress in producing chips comparable to Nvidia's H100, despite export control challenges.
  • China's recent directive discourages AI executives from traveling to the US, reflecting heightened security concerns and potentially signaling a more adversarial stance in the AI race.

Timestamps + Links:

  • (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
  • (00:01:30) News Preview
  • Tools & Apps
  • Applications & Business
  • Projects & Open Source
  • Research & Advancements
  • Policy & Safety
  • (01:43:48) Outro
16 Dec 2021AI Best Friends, The Beatles + Machine Learning, Crime Prediction Bias, Transformer Quadraped Robot00:38:52
10 Oct 2020Working With Robots in a Post-Pandemic World00:29:02

An interview with Professor Matt Beane about his recent paper Working With Robots in a Post-Pandemic World, co-authored with Professor Erik Brynjolfsson.

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Check out coverage of similar topics at www.skynettoday.com

Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

22 Aug 2020AI Setting Grades, ICE Pays Clearview, and Much More00:30:10

Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories. Please fill out the listener survey: bit.ly/ltasurvey

Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com

Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

05 May 2022#95 - AI Kills Cookie Pop-Ups, Models Volcanoes, Screens for Child Neglect, Paints Harry Potter00:43:04

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

Sponsor: This episode is sponsored by Zencastr, our go-to tool for recording the podcast. It is super easy to use, and there is nothing to download. Go to http://zen.ai/lastweekinai and get 30% off your first three months with a PRO account!

Outline:

(00:00) Intro

Applications & Business

Research & Advancements

(24:15) Ad break Society & Ethics

Fun & Neat

(41:56) Outro

10 Jul 2020ACM on Facial Recognition, National AI Cloud, and Positive DeepFakes00:21:31

Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories.

Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com

Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensea

17 Sep 2024# 182 - Alexa 2.0, MiniMax, Surskever raises $1B, SB 1047 approved01:38:47

Our 182nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With hosts Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris.

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In this episode:

- OpenAI's move into hardware production and Amazon's strategic acquisition in AI robotics. - Advances in training language models with long-context capabilities and California's pending AI regulation bill. - Strategies for safeguarding open weight LLMs against adversarial attacks and China's rise in chip manufacturing. - Sam Altman's infrastructure investment plan and debates on AI-generated art by Ted Chiang.

Timestamps + Links:

  • (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
  • (00:05:15) Response to listener comments / corrections
21 Jul 2021Reflecting on AI news in 2021 (so far) with the host of the Towards Data Science Podcast00:43:01
2021 has been a bit less crazy than 2020 so far, but plenty of notable stuff has already happened. So, we decided to partner with our friends over at the Towards Data Science podcast, hosted by co-founder of ShapestMinds Jeremie Harris.

Specifically, we discuss: This avocado armchair could be the future of AI, For Its Latest Trick

Facial-Recognition Tools in Spotlight in New Jersey False Arrest Case

New' Nirvana Song Created 27 Years After Kurt Cobain's Death Via AI Software

As well as the general trends these stories represent.

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

01 Jan 2022Create AI art with an app, an AI-powered game platform, the year of monster AI models, better images of AI00:30:00
13 May 2023#122 - AI for Word and Excel, leaked Google memo, ImageBind, LLAva, robot soccer, Midjourney 5.102:02:14

Our 122nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai

Check out the No Priors podcast: https://link.chtbl.com/lastweekinainopriors

Check out Jeremie's new book Quantum Physics Made Me Do It

Outline:

05 May 2024#165 - Sora challenger, Astribot's S1, Med-Gemini, Refusal in LLMs01:32:46

Our 165th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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26 Sep 2024#183 - OpenAI o1, Adobe vid gen, Reflection 70B, DeepMind AlphaProteo01:48:16

Our 183rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With hosts Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris.

Note: once again, apologies from Andrey on this one coming out late. Starting with the next one we should be back to a regular(ish) release schedule.

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In this episode:

- OpenAI's O1 and O1 mini models boast advanced reasoning and longer responses. 

- Adobe adds video generation to Firefly, Anthropic launches AI safety-focused Claude enterprise.

- LLAMA3 8B excels with synthetic tokens, AI-generated ideas deemed more novel.

- New AI forecasting bot competes with veteran human forecasters.

Timestamps + Links:

04 Nov 2021AI for Game Mods and Moderation, Tesla‘s Beta Rollback, Clearview AI Tested, ruDALL-E00:24:55
21 Jan 2021Clearview AI in the Capitol, Medical AI Regulation, DeepFake Text00:22:49

This week:

0:00 - 0:35 Intro 0:35 - 4:30 News Summary segment 4:30 News Discussion segment

Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/99

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

12 May 2024#166 - new AI song generator, Microsoft's GPT4 efforts, AlphaFold3, xLSTM, OpenAI Model Spec01:41:24

Our 166th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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08 Nov 2024#188 - ChatGPT+Search, OpenAI+AMD, SimpleQA, π001:51:50

Our 188th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris. Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai

Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/.

This episode was sponsored by The Generator. If you would like to become a sponsor for the newsletter, podcast, or both, please fill out this form. In this episode: * Meta's open-source models utilized by China's military prompt regulatory adjustments; US agencies gain access to counterbalance.  * OpenAI partners with Broadcom and AMD to develop custom AI hardware, aiming for profitability and reducing inference costs.  * Physical Intelligence unveils a generalist robot control policy with a $400M funding boost, showcasing significant advancements in zero-shot task performance.  * New U.S. regulation mandates quarterly reporting for large AI model training and computing cluster acquisitions, aiming to bolster national security.

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01 Apr 2025#205 - Gemini 2.5, ChatGPT Image Gen, Thoughts of LLMs01:34:18

Our 205th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 03/28/2025

Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris. Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai

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Join our Discord here! https://discord.gg/nTyezGSKwP

In this episode:

  • OpenAI's new image generation capabilities represent significant advancements in AI tools, showcasing impressive benchmarks and multimodal functionalities.
  • OpenAI is finalizing a historic $40 billion funding round led by SoftBank, and Sam Altman shifts focus to technical direction while COO Brad Lightcap takes on more operational responsibilities.,
  • Anthropic unveils groundbreaking interpretability research, introducing cross-layer tracers and showcasing deep insights into model reasoning through applications on Claude 3.5.
  • New challenging benchmarks such as ARC AGI 2 and complex Sudoku variations aim to push the boundaries of reasoning and problem-solving capabilities in AI models.

Timestamps + Links:

  • (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
  • (00:01:01) News Preview
  • Tools & Apps
  • Applications & Business
  • Projects & Open Source
  • Research & Advancements
21 May 2023#123 - Delete your info from ChatGPT, Google’s AI plans, EU act targets OSS, PaLM 2, writers’ strike01:55:36

Our 123rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai

Check out The Gradient here: https://thegradient.pub/

Timestamps:

20 Aug 2024#179 - Grok 2, Gemini Live, Flux, FalconMamba, AI Scientist01:58:26

Our 179th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

With hosts Andrey Kurenkov (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris)

If you would like to get a sneak peek and help test Andrey's generative AI application, go to Astrocade.com to join the waitlist and the discord.

Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/

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Episode Highlights:

- Grok 2's beta release features new image generation using Black Forest Labs' tech.

- Google introduces Gemini Voice Chat Mode available to subscribers and integrates it into Pixel Buds Pro 2.

- Huawei's Ascend 910C AI chip aims to rival NVIDIA's H100 amidst US export controls.

- Overview of potential risks of unaligned AI models and skepticism around SingularityNet's AGI supercomputer claims.

Timestamps + Links:

08 May 2023#121 - Top researcher leaves Google, trademarking ”GPT”, Stability AI’s new models, 50% of AI ’Catastrophe’, DrakeGPT01:54:28

Our 121st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

Read out our text newsletter at https://lastweekin.ai/

Check out Jeremie's new book Quantum Physics Made Me Do It

Quantum Physics Made Me Do It tells the story of human self-understanding through the lens of physics. It explores what we can and can’t know about reality, and how tiny tweaks to quantum theory can reshape our entire picture of the universe. And because I couldn't resist, it explains what that story means for AI and the future of sentience   

You can find it on Amazon in the UK, Canada, and the US — here are the links:

UK ver;sion | Canadian version | US version 

 

Outline:

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10 Sep 2023#136 - Claude Pro, Ideogram, Chinese ChatGPT bots, Falcon 180B, RLAIF, export restrictions, Ghostwriter01:02:44

Our 136th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

With guest host Daniel Bashir. Check out his AI interview podcast!

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Check out our sponsor, the SuperDataScience podcast. You can listen to SDS across all major podcasting platforms (e.g., Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts) plus there’s a video version on YouTube.

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20 Jul 2020Mini Episode: Pentagon AI, Deep Learning‘s Limits, Discharging Patients, and Robust AI00:06:13

Our ninth audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news!

This week, we look at the Pentagon's Joint AI Center, recent research on the computational limits of deep learning, how AI is being used to decide when to discharge patients, and a recent report on robust AI research.

Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com

Theme: Deliberate Thought by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

06 Sep 2023#135 - Google AI Subscription, ChatGPT Enterprise, Nvidia’s Q2, Consciousness, DeepFake watermark01:40:10

Our 135th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

Apologies for pod being late again... -Andrey

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23 Nov 2021Chat about Teaching AI at Stanford with Abigail See00:52:39

A special discussion episode, where we do not cover AI news but instead chat about our experiences teaching AI classes at Stanford with Abigail See, a graduate from the Stanford AI Lab and a good friend of ours.

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

21 Jun 2020Mini Episode: Startup News, NeurIPS Changes, and US-China Tensions00:03:58

Our fifth audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news!

This week, we look at more news from Boston Dynamics, a new MIT startup that wants to help you do deep learning on your CPU, recent changes at NeurIPS, and Baidu's departure from the Partnership on AI.

Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com

Theme: Deliberate Thought by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

20 Jan 2025#197 - AI in Gmail+Docs, MiniMax-01, Titans, Transformer^201:23:52

Our 197th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 01/17/2024

Join our brand new Discord here! https://discord.gg/nTyezGSKwP

Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and guest-hosted by the folks from Latent Space

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Sponsors:

  • The Generator - An interdisciplinary AI lab empowering innovators from all fields to bring visionary ideas to life by harnessing the capabilities of artificial intelligence.

In this episode:

 - Google and Mistral sign deals with AP and AFP, respectively, to deliver up-to-date news through their AI platforms.  - ChatGPT introduces a tasks feature for reminders and to-dos, positioning itself more as a personal assistant.  - Synthesia raises $180 million to enhance its AI video platform for generating videos of human avatars.  - New U.S. guidelines restrict exporting AI chips to various countries, impacting Nvidia and other tech firms.

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23 Dec 2024#193 - Sora release, Gemini 2, OpenAI's AGI Rule, US AI Czar02:05:28

Our 193rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's* big AI news! *and sometimes last last week's 

Note: this one was recorded on 12/13, so the news is a bit outdated... will get things back on track soon!

Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris. Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai

Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/.

Sponsors:

  • The Generator - An interdisciplinary AI lab empowering innovators from all fields to bring visionary ideas to life by harnessing the capabilities of artificial intelligence.

In this episode:

- OpenAI launches Sora, a text-to-video model with significant capabilities, and Gemini 2.0 from Google showcasing agentic potential in AI tools.  - Character.ai introduces a teen model to address safety concerns following two tragic incidents linked to addiction and harmful influence.  - The U.S. government sets up a task force to support the rapid development of AI data centers, reflecting the critical need for robust infrastructure.  - A paper from Anthropic reveals that frontier AI systems have reached the capability of self-replication, sparking discussions on future implications and safety protocols.

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26 Jul 2020GPT-3, Limits of Deep Learning, Deepfakes in the Real World00:33:49

Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories.

 

Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com

 

Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

07 May 2021Rethinking Conferences, Chinese GPT-3, Farming Robots, Lyft's AV Sale00:35:34

This week:

Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/114

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

23 Apr 2023#119 - Open Source GPTs, X.AI, Auto-GPT, China’s Censorship of AI, Fake Drake+The Weeknd Colab01:36:10

Our 118th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

Read out our text newsletter at https://lastweekin.ai/

Check out Jeremie's new book Quantum Physics Made Me Do It

Quantum Physics Made Me Do It tells the story of human self-understanding through the lens of physics. It explores what we can and can’t know about reality, and how tiny tweaks to quantum theory can reshape our entire picture of the universe. And because I couldn't resist, it explains what that story means for AI and the future of sentience   

You can find it on Amazon in the UK, Canada, and the US — here are the links:

UK version | Canadian version | US version 

 

Outline:

26 Mar 2020More on AI, COVID-19, and Revised Research Practices00:41:52

Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou cover more news stories related to how AI helps tackle the coronavirus crisis and how research is changing.

Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

20 May 2021Elon Musk's Self Driving Claims, AI Ethics at Google, Photorealistic GTA 500:26:22

This week:

Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/116

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

10 Dec 2020The firing of Dr.Timnit Gebru, AlphaFold, and Unions Against AI00:23:13

This week:

0:00 - 0:40 Intro 0:40 - 4:40 News Summary segment 4:40 News Discussion segment

Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/94

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

03 Sep 2021AI for Spreadsheets, Hospital Robots, NLP Benchmarking, AI Play00:30:04
28 Jan 2021Bad Uses of AI, Google and Margaret Mitchell, AI for Fairer Healthcare00:37:02
  • Google Sidelines Second Artificial Intelligence Researcher
  • This App Claims It Can Detect ‘Trustworthiness.’ It Can’t
  • AI could make healthcare fairer--by helping us believe what patients say

  • 0:00 - 0:35 Intro 0:35 - 5:25 News Summary segment 5:25 News Discussion segment

    Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/100

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

    19 Nov 2020AI‘s replication crisis, reddit discussions, government-sponsored medical AI00:10:27

    This week:

    0:00 - 1:00 Intro 1:00 - 5:00 News Summary segment 5:00 News Discussion segment

    Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/last-week-in-ai-91

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

    31 May 2020More Ethical Quagmires, More Surveillance, and more Academia Talk00:27:03

    Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories.

    Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com

    Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

    24 Dec 2023#148 - Imagen 2, Midjourney on web, FunSearch, OpenAI ‘Preparedness Framework’, campaigning voice clone01:55:47

    Our 148th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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    Timestamps + links:

    • (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
    11 Aug 2021Malware in AI models, Algorithmic Bias Bounty, Robot Beach-Cleaners and Beehives00:23:43

    Our 66th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! NOTE: audio is fixed on this upload.

    This week:

    • Meet BeachBot, a beach rover that uses AI to remove cigarette butts from beaches

    • Here Is A Fully Autonomous AI-Powered Beehive That Could Save Bee Colonies

    • Researchers demonstrate that malware can be hidden inside AI models

    • Facebook AI Releases ‘VoxPopuli’, A Large-Scale Open Multilingual Speech Corpus For AI Translations in NLP Systems

    • China built the world's largest facial recognition system. Now, it's getting camera-shy.

    • Twitter announces first algorithmic bias bounty challenge

    • Say Hello To The Tokyo Olympic Robots

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    Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/127

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

    09 Mar 2025#202 - Qwen-32B, Anthropic's $3.5 billion, LLM Cognitive Behaviors01:19:52

    Our 202nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 03/07/2025

    Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris. Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai

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    Join our Discord here! https://discord.gg/nTyezGSKwP

    In this episode:

    • Alibaba released Qwen-32B, their latest reasoning model, on par with leading models like DeepMind’s R1.
    • Anthropic raised $3.5 billion in a funding round, valuing the company at $61.5 billion, solidifying its position as a key competitor to OpenAI.
    • DeepMind introduced BigBench Extra Hard, a more challenging benchmark to evaluate the reasoning capabilities of large language models.
    • Reinforcement Learning pioneers Andrew Bartow and Rich Sutton were awarded the prestigious Turing Award for their contributions to the field.

    Timestamps + Links:

    cle picks:

    • (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
    • (00:01:41) Episode Preview
    • (00:02:50) GPT-4.5 Discussion
    17 Jun 2021DeepMind on General AI, Creepy Fake Humans, City Brains00:28:00

    This week:

    Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/120

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    09 Apr 2025#206 - Llama 4, Nova Act, xAI buys X, PaperBench01:13:44

    Our 206th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 04/07/2025

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    In this episode:

    • Meta releases LlAMA-4, a series of advanced large language models, sparking debate on performance and release timing, with models featuring up to 2 trillion parameters for different configurations and applications.
    • Amazon's AGI Lab debuts NOVA Act, an AI agent for web browser control, boasting competitive benchmarking against OpenAI's and Anthropic's best agents.
    • OpenAI's image generation capabilities and ongoing financing developments, notably a $40 billion funding round led by SoftBank, highlight significant advancements and strategic shifts in the tech giant’s operations.

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    03 Dec 2020To PhD or not to PhD, AI Bias, Facial Recognition Ethics, GPT-300:42:59

    This week:

    0:00 - 0:40 Intro 0:40 - 5:00 News Summary segment 5:00 News Discussion segment

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    04 Feb 2024#153 - Taylor Swift Deepfakes, ChatGPT features, Meta-Prompting, two new US bills01:46:07

    Our 153rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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    16 Apr 2021AI Nirvana Song, Facebook Fairness Dataset, No-Code AI00:36:14

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    25 Jun 2020On Shaping the Global Terrain of AI Competition with Tim Hwang00:45:51

    Stanford AI Lab PhD Andrey Kurenkov interviews Tim Hwang, Research Fellow at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) about his new report “Shaping the Terrain of AI Competition” and more.

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    02 Jun 2022#99 - Drone Mail Delivery, Human-Robot Teamwork, ToxiGen, Robot Companions00:47:31

    Our 99th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

    Sponsor: This episode is sponsored by Zencastr, our go-to tool for recording the podcast. It is super easy to use, and there is nothing to download. Go to http://zen.ai/lastweekinai and get 30% off your first three months with a PRO account!

    Outline:

    (00:00) Intro (1:50) Royal Mail is Doing the Right Thing with Drone Delivery (6:10) Google uses AI to digitise maps in the utilities industry 

    (8:57) AI on the Ball: Startup Shoots Computer Vision to the Soccer Pitch 

    (9:26) Google Adds Machine Learning-Powered Studio Lighting To Video Calls 

    (11:33) Dyson launches a hiring spree for hundreds of engineers to build robots capable of doing household chores 

    (12:20) Pony.ai loses permit to test autonomous vehicles with driver in California 

    (12:52) Researchers develop algorithm to divvy up tasks for human-robot teams

    (19:42) Microsoft AI Researchers Introduces (De)ToxiGen: A Large-Scale Machine-Generated Dataset for Adversarial and Implicit Hate Speech Detection

    (24:32) Researchers Use Machine Learning to Identify Thousands of New Marine RNA Viruses in Study of Interest to Microbiologists and Clinical Laboratory Scientists 

    (25:17) Tiny robotic crab is smallest-ever remote-controlled walking robot 

    (26:12) TartanDrive dataset likely largest for off-road environments 

    (26:48) AI Framework Cuts Time, Effort Needed to Predict Critical Care Outcomes 

    (27:13) Ad break

    (28:25) China and Europe are leading the push to regulate A.I. — one of them could set the global playbook

    (33:30) New York State Office for the Aging deploys AI robots as companions for older adults 

    (37:25) Oxford High School tests AI gun detection system in wake of shooting 

    (38:38) An Autonomous Car Blocked a Fire Truck Responding to an Emergency 

    (40:12) U.S. firm Clearview A.I. fined for illegally collecting images of Brits' faces 

    (41:19) Pentagon names new chief of responsible artificial intelligence 

    (42:05) The Day I Became Friends with a Robot 

    (44:26) I Used AI To See What These 23 Popular Cartoon Characters Would Look Like In Real Life

    (46:14) Outro

    19 May 2024#167 - GPT-4o, Project Astra, Veo, OpenAI Departures, Interview with Andrey01:43:02

    Our 167th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

    With guest host Daliana Liu (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dalianaliu/) from The Data Scientist Show!

    And a special one-time interview with Andrey in the latter part of the podcast.

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    08 Oct 2020DeepFake Dictators, AI Sepsis Watch, Biased Exam Monitoring00:17:24

    Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

    This week  How an AI tool for fighting hospital deaths actually worked in the real world, ExamSoft’s remote bar exams sparks privacy and facial recognition concerns, Deepfake Putin is here to warn American’s about their self-inflicted doom

    0:00 - 0:40 Intro 0:40 - 5:00 News Summary segment 5:00 News Discussion segment

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    09 Jul 2021An AI Serial Killer, Scary Good Voice AI, Robot Rock, Israel‘s AI-powered Weapons00:25:33
    05 Mar 2025#201 - GPT 4.5, Sonnet 3.7, Grok 3, Phi 400:58:37

    Our 201st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 03/02/2025

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    In this episode:

    - The release of GPT-4.5 from OpenAI, Anthropic's Claude 3.7, and Grok 3 from XAI, comparing their features, costs, and capabilities.  - Discussion on new tools and applications including Sesame's new voice assistant and Google's AI coding assistant, Gemini Code Assist, highlighting their unique benefits.  - OpenAI's continued user growth despite competition, pricing models for Google's text-to-video platform, and HP acquiring and shutting down Humane's AI pin.  - Insights into new research on alignment and specification gaming in LLMs, including papers on fine-tuning causing broad misalignment and Google's multi-agent system for scientific collaboration.

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    02 May 2020AI Fails to Diagnose COVID-19, Difficulties with AI Regulation, and more on Surveillance00:27:01

    Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories.

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    30 Dec 2024#194 - Gemini Reasoning, Veo 2, Meta vs OpenAI, Fake Alignment01:59:55

    Our 194th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's* big AI news! *and sometimes last last week's 

    Recorded on 12/19/2024 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris. Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai

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    In this episode:

    - Google dominates AI news with multiple announcements, including a reasoning model and Project Mariner, an AI browsing agent.  - Anthropic explores alignment faking in LLMs, revealing models may show deceptive compliance under certain conditions.  - Apple observes a trend towards smaller but more efficient language models, bucking previous trends of scaling larger parameter counts.  - Legal drama unfolds as Meta backs Elon Musk's opposition to OpenAI's profit status change, raising concerns about competitive fairness.

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    12 Oct 2024#185 - Movie Gen, ChatGPT Canvas, OpenAI's VC Round, SB 1047 Vetoed01:29:37

    Our 185th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With hosts Andrey Kurenkov and guest host Gavin Purcell from the AI for Humans podcast.

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    In this episode:

    • Meta's MovieGen introduces innovative features in AI video generation, alongside OpenAI's real-time speech API and expanded ChatGPT capabilities.
    • Mio's foundation model and Apple's Depth Pro enhance multimodal AI inputs and precise 3D imaging for AR, VR, and robotics.
    • Microsoft and OpenAI's strategic advancements highlight significant financial moves and AI enhancements, including Microsoft's enhanced Copilot.
    • AI policy discussions intensify as California's vetoed bill sparks debates on regulation, alongside Google's $1 billion investment to expand AI infrastructure in Thailand.

     

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    25 Nov 2021Robots at Google Offices, AI-Powered Writing, AI Polygraph, AI Art00:23:00
    13 Jan 2025#196 - Nvidia Digits, Cosmos, PRIME, ICLR, InfAlign01:46:34

    Our 196th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's* big AI news! *and sometimes last last week's  Recorded on 01/10/2024

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    In this episode:

    - Nvidia announced a $3,000 personal AI supercomputer called Digits, featuring the GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip, aiming to lower the barrier for developers working on large models.  - The U.S. Department of Justice finalizes a rule restricting the transmission of specific data types to countries of concern, including China and Russia, under executive order 14117. - Meta allegedly trained Llama on pirated content from LibGen, with internal concerns about the legality confirmed through court filings.  - Microsoft paused construction on a section of a large data center project in Wisconsin to reassess based on new technological changes.

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    19 Sep 2020The Evolving Impact of Robots on Jobs00:29:51

    An interview with Professors Jong Hyun Chung and Yong Suk Lee about their recent paper The Evolving Impact of Robots on Jobs.

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    17 Oct 2023#140 - Yasa vs ChatGPT, Waymo expands, scaling robot learning, AI watermarks01:57:03

    Our 140th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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    Note: the CEO of GitHub disputes "Report: GitHub Copilot Loses an Average of $20 Per User Per Month"

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    04 Apr 2020Bias in Voice Recognition, Debates in AI, and Robotics in the Time of COVID-1900:38:42

    Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou cover news about bias in commercial voice recognition systems, a debate about the future of AI, and more on what covid 19 shows us about robotics.

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    30 Apr 2024#164 - Meta AI, Phi-3, OpenELM, Bollywood Deepfakes01:31:56

    Our 164th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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    29 Aug 2020Machine Learning + Procedural Content Generation with Julian Togelius and Sebastian Risi00:47:59

    An interview with Professors Julian Togelius and Sebastian Risi about their new survey paper "Increasing generality in machine learning through procedural content generation", their work at modl.ai, and more!

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    24 Mar 2024#160 - Nvidia's new GPU, Microsoft pays for Inflection AI, Grok-1 open sourced, Jeremie's Action Plan01:39:34

    Our 160th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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    09 Jun 2024#170 - new Sora rival, OpenAI robotics, understanding GPT4, AGI by 2027?01:48:30

    Our 170th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

    With hosts Andrey Kurenkov (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris)

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    26 Feb 2021More Unethical AI Research, More Google Drama, More Clearview AI00:27:19

    This week:

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    11 Nov 2021Facebook Shuts Down Facial Recognition, Google Wants to Work with the Pentagon, AI for Lie Detection?00:34:11
    21 Jan 2024#151 - Copilot Pro, LLama.cpp, conversational diagnostic AI, secret AI diplomacy01:36:10

    Our 151st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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    29 Jun 2021Jordan Harrod on being an AI researcher and educator00:53:05

    An interview with Jordan Harrod, a PhD Candidate in the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology program, a YouTuber who creates educational videos about AI, and an advocate for evidence-based policy.

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    Detailed bio: Jordan Harrod is a Ph.D. Candidate in Medical Engineering and Medical Physics at the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology program. Her research focuses on using neuromodulation to understand pain and consciousness, and using neurotechnology and machine learning to develop new tools for brain stimulation. She is also a significant communicator and educator focused on AI, with her YouTube channel having many videos on how we interact with artificial intelligence in our daily lives, and she is also the Chief Operating Officer of the MIT Science Policy Review, a peer-reviewed science policy journal.

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    12 Dec 2023#146 - ChatGPT’s 1 year anniversary, DeepMind GNoME, Extraction of Training Data from LLMs, AnyDream01:25:27

    Our 146th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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    08 Jun 2022#100 - Depression, Energy Grid, MRI, Astronomy, DALLE Logos01:03:08

    Our 100th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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    26 Apr 2020Mechanisms for AI Safety, Beyond Supervised Learning, and AI for Science00:27:03

    Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories.

    Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com

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    13 Nov 2020Geoff Hinton‘s Hot Take, Robots in Walmart and Art, Confidence in AI for Healthcare00:29:26

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    0:00 - 0:40 Intro 0:40 - 5:00 News Summary segment 5:00 News Discussion segment

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    06 Jan 2022Looking Back at AI in 2021 with Jeremie from Towards Data Science00:49:27

    For our first episode in 2022, we are joined with our friends from the Towards Data Science podcast to discuss our thoughts about the AI-related trends and events that happened in 2021.

    Some things we discuss are:

    • Foundation models continue to grow, but one interesting trend is the focus on efficiency along with (instead of?) scale. For example, while DeepMind’s Gopher model has fewer than twice the parameters of GPT-3, it’s reportedly 25 times more efficient, meaning that much more value is being squeezed out of the same training data and compute. AI21Labs’ Jurrassic models are also equal to GPT-3 on a parameter count basis, but reflect a focus on architecture optimization over raw scaling that we expect to persist into 2022. (That’s not to say significant scaling won’t happen, or that it hasn’t happened already; Microsoft Turing-NLG, released a few months ago, is over half a trillion parameters in size. But it’s safe to say that scaling won’t be done without simultaneous efficiency optimizations that were less of a focus in late-2020.)
    • Procedural environment generation has been a big theme in reinforcement learning. In Open-Ended Learning Leads to Generally Capable Agents, the team at DeepMind showed how training RL agents on a wide range of environments can lead to emergent behaviour associated with generalization, like trial and error and cooperation with friendly agents.
    • Open-ended learning (OEL) seems like an interesting wildcard, which some researchers think might be an important ingredient in the final AGI recipe. We spoke with OpenAI’s head of open-ended learning, Ken Stanley, about what role OEL might play in the future of AI on this episode of the TDS podcast.
    • A NeurIPS spotlight paper titled Optimal Policies Tend to Seek Power, and subsequent work by the same author, are showing that we should expect highly capable AI systems to engage in dangerous behaviour that’s misaligned with human values, by default. Specifically, highly competent agents will tend to search for states that are powerful, in the sense that they offer many downstream options. This finding makes a compelling case that AI alignment ought to be prioritized, particularly given the rate of progress we’re seeing in AI capabilities more broadly. If it really is the case that capable AI systems will be dangerous by default, active effort must be invested in safety research.
    Outline:
    • 0:00 Intro
    • 2:15 Rise of multi-modal models
    • 7:40 Growth of hardware and compute
    • 13:20 Reinforcement learning
    • 20:45 Open-ended learning
    • 26:15 Power seeking paper
    • 32:30 Safety and assumptions
    • 35:20 Intrinsic vs. extrinsic motivation
    • 42:00 Mapping natural language
    • 46:20 Timnit Gebru’s research institute
    • 49:20 Wrap-up
    25 Jul 2023#130 - Llama 2, Elon Musk’s xAI, WormGPT, LongLLaMA, AI apocalypse, actors on strike01:45:22

    Our 130th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

    Co-hosted this week by Jon Krohn of the Super Data Science Podcast podcast.

    Correction: Elon Musk's company is named xAI, not x.AI.

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    10 Mar 2024#158 - Claude 3, Elon Musk sues OpenAI, StarCoder 2, AI-Generated Spam01:48:45

    Our 158th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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    05 Jan 2025#195 - OpenAI o3 & for-profit, DeepSeek-V3, Latent Space01:39:05

    Our 195th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's* big AI news! *and sometimes last last week's 

    Recorded on 01/04/2024

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    - OpenAI teases new deliberative alignment techniques in its O3 model, showcasing major improvements in reasoning benchmarks, whilst surprising with autonomy in hacks against chess engines.  - Microsoft and OpenAI continue to wrangle over the terms of their partnership, highlighting tensions amid OpenAI's shift towards a for-profit model.  - Chinese AI companies like DeepSeek and Quen release advanced open-source models, presenting significant contributions to AI capabilities and performance optimization.  - Sakana AI introduces innovative applications of AI to the search for artificial life, emphasizing the potential and curiosity-driven outcomes of open-ended learning and exploration.

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    20 Sep 2023#137 - Salesforce Copilot, Chip Crunch, Meta Rival to ChatGPT, AI for paralysis patients01:18:30

    Our 137th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

    With guest host Jessica Dai. Check out her Reboot publication!

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    03 Sep 2022#107 - Surgery Outcomes, Accent Removal, Archeological Dating, Deepfakes00:40:59

    Our 107th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

    Apologies for a lack of consistent episode releases lately, we've been really busy...

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    04 Mar 2023#113 - Nvidia’s 10k GPU, Toolformer, AI alignment, John Oliver01:02:12

    Our 113th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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    09 May 2020AI Fails to Read PDFs, OpenAI Jukebox, and more!00:25:46

    Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories.

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    22 Jan 2022AI for Omicron, Self-Farming Farms, AI-designed beer, Cuddly AI00:37:41
    09 Jul 2023#129 - AI Clippy, lots of AI funding, Ernie 3.5, RoboCat, AI act, Adobe AI indemnity clause01:12:59

    Our 129th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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    26 Aug 2020Hate Speech, Applied AI, NYPD, & Grades00:26:42

    Our latest roundup of last week's big AI news!

    Plus, Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss the news and offer their thoughts.

    We are trying out this combination of formats for the first time - please fill out the listener survey to let us know what you think about it: bit.ly/ltasurvey

    Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com

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    17 Apr 2022#92 - OpenAI’s DALL-E 2, Google’s PaLM, AI Intel in Ukraine, Hugging Robots00:36:45

    Our 92nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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    • Outro
    04 Oct 2020DeepLearning.AI GANs for Good Panel + Q&A00:50:53

    Courtesy of our regular host Sharon, an except from the event celebrating a new course on GANs she teaches.

    See the full event here: https://youtu.be/9d4jmPmTWmc

    "To celebrate the launch of GANs Specialization, we’ve assembled a panel of GANs experts. They will discuss some of their current projects and the importance and future of GANs and also provide practical career advice for ML practitioners."

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    01 Aug 2023#131 - ChatGPT+ instructions, Microsoft reveals pricing for AI, is ChatGPT getting worse over time?01:51:43

    Our 131th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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    12 Jul 2020Mini Episode: AI Therapists, Facial Recognition in Detroit, Decolonialism in AI, and Deepfakes for Corporate Training00:05:45

    Our eighth audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news!

    This week, we look at the rise of AI therapy bots, the fight against facial recognition in Detroit, a paper from DeepMind and Oxford on decolonialism in AI, and how deepfakes are being used for corporate training. 

    Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com

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    05 Dec 2024#191 - Sora leak, Pixtral Large, OpenAI email archives01:42:11

    Our 191st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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    09 Aug 2020Mini Episode: TikTok, Cheap Deepfakes, AI in 2020, and Deference00:06:28

    Our twelfth audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news!

    This week, we look at Microsoft's reasons for the TikTok acquisition, how depefakes are becoming cheaper, AI's struggle to adapt to 2020, and how AI is learning when to defer to humans. 

    Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com

    Theme: Deliberate Thought by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com)

    Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

    05 Nov 2020Yann LeCun on GPT-3, New Google Projects, Inequality, GPT-3 on Hacker News00:31:56

    NOTE: audio for andrey is a bit rough this week, sorry!

    This week:

    0:00 - 0:40 Intro 0:40 - 5:00 News Summary segment 5:00 News Discussion segment

    Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://www.skynettoday.com/digests/the-eighty-ninth

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

    16 Nov 2023#142 - Humanoid Robots, Video-To-Text, Habitat 3.0, Cruise troubles, data poisoning01:39:16

    Our 142nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI new.

    Apologies for this one coming out after a pause, episodes will resume being released regularly as of this week.

    Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/

    Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai

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    10 Dec 2021AI for Mathematicians, Timnit Gebru‘s New Research Center, No Ban on Killer Robots, Vertigo AI00:25:45

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

    Feel free to email us your thoughts or feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com

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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)

    11 Sep 2021AI for lonely people, GPT-3 is toxic, Tesla investigation develops, Kiwibot00:29:04
    31 May 2020Mini Episode: Clearview, the G7, Shopping, and AI-Assisted Journalism00:03:57

    Our second audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news!

    This week, we look at the ACLU's lawsuit against Clearview AI, an international AI group among the G7, how small businesses might begin to use automation, and Microsoft's push towards replacing journalists with AI.

    Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com

    Theme: Deliberate Thought by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com)

    Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

    21 Apr 2022#93 - Chip Startup Funding Doubled, Google Text+Image Search, Analog AI, Criminal Robotaxi00:29:09

    Our 93nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

    Outline:

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