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

Our 78th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Check our text version of this news roundup over at lastweekin.ai. This week: (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 ‘AfriBERTa’ For African Languages Using Deep Learning Techniques (12:40) AI skin cancer diagnoses risk being less accurate for dark skin – study (16:55) Israel escalates surveillance of Palestinians with facial recognition program in West Bank (22:15) Tesla vehicle in ‘Full Self-Driving’ beta mode ‘severely damaged’ 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 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .