Podcasts Technology Last Week in AI Record High AI Funding, AfriBERTa, Facial Recognition in the West Bank, Tesla FSD Beta Crash, AI for Stressed Dogs

Record High AI Funding, AfriBERTa, Facial Recognition in the West Bank, Tesla FSD Beta Crash, AI for Stressed Dogs

Published: Nov. 19, 2021, 9:06 p.m.

Our 78th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!\nSubscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube\nCheck our text version of this news roundup over at lastweekin.ai.\nThis week:\n(00:00) Intro(01:40) Walmart is using fully driverless trucks to ramp up its online grocery business(05:20) AI startup funding hits record high of $17.9B in Q3 / Robot orders by companies surge as labor shortages linger(09:50) University of Waterloo AI Researchers Introduce A New NLP Model \u2018AfriBERTa\u2019 For African Languages Using Deep Learning Techniques \xa0(12:40) AI skin cancer diagnoses risk being less accurate for dark skin \u2013 study(16:55) Israel escalates surveillance of Palestinians with facial recognition program in West Bank(22:15) Tesla vehicle in \u2018Full Self-Driving\u2019 beta mode \u2018severely damaged\u2019 after crash in California(26:15) CMU opens first AI maker space to let students 'sharpen the cutting edge of AI'(28:25) Machine Learning Shushes Stressed Dogs(31:05) Outro\n\xa0\nMusic: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)