facial recognition ethics

China aims for global supremacy in artificial intelligence by 2030. Its strategy involves massive funding, concentrated talent, and tight state control over AI development. While this centralized approach speeds progress, it raises ethical concerns and long-term innovation risks.

China prioritizes AI advancements over individual rights, as seen in its facial recognition surveillance system. Tensions exist between rapid but unchecked AI progress versus ethical, consensual development.

Nations must thoughtfully balance AI capabilities with principles of openness, accountability and human rights. The global future hangs in the balance.

This podcast was generated with the help of artificial intelligence. We do fact check with human eyes, but there might still be hallucinations in the output.

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Our 103rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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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

Our 78th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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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

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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)

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

This week Hope Returns to the Machine Learning Universe, California Utilities Hope Drones, AI Will Lower Risk of Future Wildfires, How to edit writing by a robot: a step-by-step guide, The Guardian’s GPT-3-generated article is everything wrong with media hype, *AI standards launched to help tackle the problem of overhyped studies, IBM says U.S. should adopt new export controls on facial recognition systems

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-second

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

Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories, relating to Black Lives Matter, the disaster that was Genderify, possible ways jobs will be lost, and Weird A.I. Yankovic.

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

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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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