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Our 64th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news

This week:

• This AI publicly shames politicians, but don’t laugh just yet

• AI-Generated Art Scene Explodes as Hackers Create Groundbreaking New Tools

• What A Long, Strange Trip It's Been: EleutherAI One Year Retrospective

• YouTube’s recommender AI still a horrorshow, finds major crowdsourced study

• Attackers use ‘offensive AI’ to create deepfakes for phishing campaigns

• Elon Musk admits self-driving is harder than he thought as Tesla owners troll him over missed deadlines

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Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/124

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

What can ants tells us about whether something deserves to be popular? This is a question tackled in David Sumpter’s book – ‘The Ten Equations that Rule the World: And How You Can Use Them Too.’ He tells Tim Harford about some of the algorithms that you see in nature, and those harnessed by tech companies such as YouTube.