AI as a Hype Tool

To look beyond the hype, we must understand its genesis and propagation

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Last Week in AI #138
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Last Week in AI #138

Singapore trials police assistant robots, Google studies the limits of large-scale pretraining, Deepfake voice used to rob a bank, and more!
October 18, 2021
Police Misuse of Facial Recognition - Three Wrongful Arrests and Counting
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Police Misuse of Facial Recognition - Three Wrongful Arrests and Counting

An overview of how multiple individuals have already been harmed by facial recognition algorithms, with more likely to follow.
August 12, 2021
AI news in 2021 (so far) with the Towards Data Science Podcast
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AI news in 2021 (so far) with the Towards Data Science Podcast

A discussion of some AI highlights from the first half of 2021
July 21, 2021
Sean McGregor on the AI Incident Database and the AI XPRIZE
podcast / interview,

Sean McGregor on the AI Incident Database and the AI XPRIZE

An interview with Sean McGregor, the ML architect at the neural accelerator startup Syntiant
July 6, 2021
AI News in First Half of 2021: a Digest
overviews / overview, news,

AI News in First Half of 2021: a Digest

An overview of the big AI-related stories of the first half of 2021
July 1, 2021
Jordan Harrod on being an AI researcher and educator
podcast / interview,

Jordan Harrod on being an AI researcher and educator

An interview with AI researcher Jordan Harrod, who is also a YouTuber who creates educational videos about AI
June 28, 2021
Janelle Shane on the Weirdness of AI
podcast / interview,

Janelle Shane on the Weirdness of AI

An interview with Janelle Shane, creator of aiweirdness.com and author of 'You Look Like a Thing and I Love You'
May 25, 2021
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