About this episode
Our 103rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! If 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! Outline: (00:00) Intro (01:10) Instagram is testing an AI tool that verifies your age by scanning your face (6:15) Bunnings, Kmart and The Good Guys using facial recognition technology to crack down on theft, Choice says (10:13) Cruise’s driverless autonomous cars start giving rides to paying passengers (12:10) Copilot, GitHub’s AI-powered programming assistant, is now generally available (13:30) IRS expands AI-powered bots to set up payment plans with taxpayers over the phone (14:10) General Motors is using AI to speed up the vehicle inspection process (14:55) Learning to Play Minecraft with Video PreTraining (VPT) (21:10) AI Detects Autism Speech Patterns Across Different Languages (25:15) Meta releases largest open source AI language model to date (26:05) Google's Parti Generator Relies on 20 Billion Inputs to Create Photorealistic Images (27:30) New hybrid machine learning forecasts lake ecosystem responses to climate change (30:04) Cerebras Systems Sets Record for Largest AI Models Ever Trained on a Single Device (30:05) Pentagon Unveils Plan to Make 'Responsible Military AI' More Than Just a Buzzword (34:43) Microsoft Plans to Eliminate Face Analysis Tools in Push for ‘Responsible A.I.’ (37:40) Vitali Klitschko fake tricks Berlin mayor in video call (38:17) China’s Surveillance State Is Growing. These Documents Reveal How. (39:03) Earthquake tech could limit deaths. Afghanistan shows it’s not easy. (40:00) Alexa has a new voice — your dead relative’s (41:18) Wordalle is a guess-the-prompt game that combines Wordle and DALL-E (43:25) The King’s Swedish: AI Rewrites the Book in Scandinavia (45:35) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .