AI for Mathematicians, Timnit Gebru‘s New Research Center, No Ban on Killer Robots, Vertigo AI
Our 80th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Outline:
(01:10) Procedural storytelling is exploding the possibilities of video game narratives (04:16) Twitch Introduces Machine Learning Feature to Detect Suspicious Users (07:28) DeepMind’s AI helps untangle the mathematics of knots (11:06) Yale researchers combat biases in machine learning algorithms (13:40) Ex-Googler Timnit Gebru Starts Her Own AI Research Center (17:20) US rejects calls for regulating or banning ‘killer robots (19:50) Who, exactly, authored this AI-generated spin on Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo? (25:00) Outro
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)