#104 - Cruise Outages, Robots for Forestry, BigSciences BLOOM, EU AI Act

Published: July 20, 2022, 6:51 p.m.

Our 104th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!\nNote: there was a delay in editing, so this news is from two weeks ago.\nIf you are a fan, we'd appreciate your feedback on Apple Podcast, or just via email to contact@lastweekin.ai - feel free to DM us on Twitter too!\nOutline:\n(00:00) Intro\n(01:10) Cruise\u2019s Robot Car Outages Are Jamming Up San Francisco\n(05:00) Japan's forestry industry tests robots to address labor shortage\n(07:12) FIFA will track players\u2019 bodies using AI to make offside calls at 2022 World Cup\xa0\n(08:30) Words matter: AI can predict salaries based on the text of online job postings\xa0\xa0\n(09:12) Photographer Successfully Uses Dall-E 2 AI to Edit his Photos\xa0\n(09:10) Google engineer identifies anonymous faces in WWII photos with AI facial recognition\xa0\n(10:00)Google AI Introduces Minerva: A Natural Language Processing (NLP) Model That Solves Mathematical Questions\n(13:16) A year in the making, BigScience\u2019s AI language model is finally available\n(15:55) Meta open sources early-stage AI translation tool that works across 200 languages\xa0\n(16:18) Computer scientists' interactive program aids motion planning for environments with obstacles\xa0\n(16:48)Microsoft AI Researchers Open-Source \u2018GODEL\u2019: A Large Scale Pre-Trained Language Model For Dialog\xa0\n(17:35) Fake Friends and the Real Threat of AI-Generated Influencers\n(22:05) The Fight Over Which Uses of AI Europe Should Outlaw\n(25:10) Waymo, UPS, others pressure Gov. Newsom to allow autonomous trucking in California\xa0\n(26:10) More and more CS students are interested in AI \u2013 and there aren't enough lecturers\xa0\n(27:03) US safety regulators open special investigation into Cruise AV crash\xa0\n(27:46) People who regularly talk to AI chatbots often start to believe they're sentient, says CEO\xa0\n(29:10) Experiments & Explorations: Robots as Musical Instruments\n(31:17) Cute desktop robot designed to keep armchair engineers engaged\n(33:33) Outro