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Last Week in AI #266
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Last Week in AI #266

AI Index Report's future predictions, Texas replaces human exam graders with AI, Robotics on the verge of a ChatGPT moment, and more! 🤖📚🚀
April 15, 2024
Last Week in AI #264
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Last Week in AI #264

🖼️ MIT's AI generates images 30x faster, 🚖 NYC welcomes robotaxis with safety drivers, 🎙️ OpenAI's voice cloning tool on hold, and more!
April 1, 2024
Last Week in AI #263
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Last Week in AI #263

Cerebras unveils next-gen AI chip🔌, Multimodal LLMs redefine pre-training🧠, Stability AI CEO steps down for decentralized AI🔄, and more!
March 25, 2024
Last Week in AI #262
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Last Week in AI #262

Meet Devin, the AI software engineer 🤖, Google's SIMA conquers gaming worlds 🎮, Reddit's AI data sale under FTC scrutiny 👀, Grok-1 language model goes open-source 📚, and more!
March 18, 2024
Last Week in AI #261
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Last Week in AI #261

Nvidia's CUDA crackdown 🚫, AI video generation heats up with Haiper's launch 🔥, meet the next-gen Claude AI models 🤖, and more!
March 11, 2024
Last Week in AI #260
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Last Week in AI #260

AI in Healthcare Revolution, Google's Quantum Supremacy, AI in Climate Change Battle, Facebook's Deepfake Detection Challenge, and more! 🌐🤖💡
March 4, 2024
Last Week in AI #259
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Last Week in AI #259

Moonshot AI's billion-dollar boost 🚀, Google's Gemini AI controversy 🎭, Google's open-source Gemma AI model launch 🌐, and more!
February 26, 2024
Last Week in AI #257
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Last Week in AI #257

Hugging Face's open-source chat assistants challenge OpenAI, Google's AI rebrands as Gemini, Interactive Agent Foundation Model unveiled, and more! 🤖💬🚀
February 12, 2024
Last Week in AI #256
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Last Week in AI #256

AI2's OLMo 7B takes flight 🚀, Deepfake scams hit new high 💸, FCC cracks down on AI robocalls 📵, and AI experiments shake up the music industry 🎵, and more!
February 5, 2024
Last Week in AI #255
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Last Week in AI #255

Web swamped with AI-translated gibberish 🗑️, Self-Rewarding Language Models revolutionize LLMs 🔄, FTC probes AI partnerships of tech giants 🕵️‍♂️, and more!
January 29, 2024
Last Week in AI #254
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Last Week in AI #254

DeepMind's AI cracks geometry problems, IMF warns AI could impact 40% of global jobs, Silicon Valley uses AI in political campaigns, and more! 📐🌍🤖🗳️
January 22, 2024
Last Week in AI #253
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Last Week in AI #253

AI-powered Rabbit R1 takes over your apps 🐇, Conversational Diagnostic AI outperforms doctors 🩺, OpenAI's GPT Store opens for business 🛍️, SAG-AFTRA signs AI deal for video games 🎮, and more!
January 15, 2024
Last Week in AI #252
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Last Week in AI #252

DeepMind's real-world robots, NYT sues OpenAI and Microsoft, Baidu's Ernie bot hits 100M users, AI art generator controversy, and more! 🤖📰🚀🎨
January 8, 2024
Last Week in AI #251
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Last Week in AI #251

AI dataset scandal: Child abuse imagery found, Anthropic defends users from copyright lawsuits, Midjourney V6 revolutionizes AI art 🎨, and more!
December 25, 2023
Last Week in AI #250
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Last Week in AI #250

Microsoft's Phi-2 vs Mistral's Mixtral 8x7b 🥊, Mamba's efficient sequence modeling 🐍, Deepfakes disrupting Bangladesh's election for just $24/month 😱, and more!
December 18, 2023
Last Week in AI #249
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Last Week in AI #249

E.U. sets global AI standards, Alphabet unveils long-awaited Gemini AI model, OpenAI rival Mistral nears $2B valuation, and more!
December 11, 2023
Last Week in AI #248
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Last Week in AI #248

ChatGPT's 1st birthday 🎂, Sam Altman back at OpenAI's helm 🚀, Amazon's new AI chatbot Q for companies 🤖, and the energy cost of generative AI 🌍, and more!
December 4, 2023
Last Week in AI #247
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Last Week in AI #247

Sam Altman returns to OpenAI, Cruise CEO resigns, Stability releases video diffusion models, Underage workers are labeling AI data, and more!
November 27, 2023
Last Week in AI #246
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Last Week in AI #246

OpenAI CEO gets fired and joins Microsoft, DeepMind redefines AGI, UnitedHealth faces AI lawsuit, and more!
November 20, 2023
Last Week in AI #245
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Last Week in AI #245

Generative AI's impact on white-collar jobs 📊, Musk's xAI launching first AI model 🚀, EU's AI Act negotiations stall 🚧, Humane's AI-powered wearable to reduce smartphone usage 📱, and more!
November 13, 2023
Last Week in AI #244
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Last Week in AI #244

Biden's AI safeguards against deep fakes, OpenAI's ChatGPT goes 'Voltron-style', Musk's Grok bot spices up AI, global AI risk management at UK summit, and more! 🤖🌐🔒
November 6, 2023
Last Week in AI #243
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Last Week in AI #243

White House's sweeping AI order 📜, Cruise's self-driving license revoked 🚫🚗, Artists fight back against generative AI with Nightshade 🎨🤖, and more!
October 30, 2023
Last Week in AI #242
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Last Week in AI #242

Amazon's humanoid robots take on fulfillment centers, Adept's Fuyu-8B revolutionizes multimodal AI agents, and more! 🤖🚀
October 23, 2023
Last Week in AI #241
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Last Week in AI #241

AI audio swarms TikTok, US-China tensions over AI exports, Adobe supercharges Photoshop with AI, and more! 🎙️🌐🎨
October 16, 2023
Last Week in AI #240
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Last Week in AI #240

Driving into the future with GAIA-1's 9-billion parameter model 🚗, Stable LM 3B brings high-performance language models to your pocket 📱, decomposing language models for better understanding 🧠, and more!
October 9, 2023
Last Week in AI #239
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Last Week in AI #239

Mistral AI's free LLM 🤖, Hollywood's AI deal 🎬, OpenAI faces another lawsuit from authors 📚, and a bipartisan 'light-touch' AI bill in the works 🏛️, and more!
October 2, 2023
Last Week in AI #238
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Last Week in AI #238

DeepMind's AI self-optimization breakthrough 🚀, LLMs struggle with logical symmetry 🔄, Teachers embrace generative AI in classrooms 🏫, and more!
September 25, 2023
Last Week in AI #237
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Last Week in AI #237

Salesforce's AI assistant takes flight 🚀, California puts brakes on driverless trucks 🚛, Adobe rewards AI trainers 💰, and more!
September 18, 2023
Last Week in AI #236
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Last Week in AI #236

Pentagon's AI fleet against China 🌐, Imbue's $200M boost for reasoning AI 🧠, AI sex worker ads invade social media 📱, Anthropic's paid plan for Claude chatbot 💬, and more!
September 11, 2023
Last Week in AI #235
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Last Week in AI #235

AI21 Labs hits $1.4B valuation 🚀, Google's Duet AI invades Workspace 📊, OpenAI's ChatGPT goes enterprise 💼, Driverless cars face a bumpy road 🚗, and more!
September 4, 2023
Last Week in AI #234
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Last Week in AI #234

Nvidia's moat in AI chips, State of AI Q2'23, Meta's new coding AI, DeepMind's algorithm to improve LLMs by themselves, and more!
August 28, 2023
Last Week in AI #233
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Last Week in AI #233

Gen AI at peak of inflated expectations, NYT bans AI companies from scraping its data, FEC may limit AI political ads before 2024, Hollywood boosts Gen AI spend amid strikes, and more!
August 21, 2023
Last Week in AI #232
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Last Week in AI #232

Victims of false facial regonition matches, White House launches AI-based security contest, Spotify launches AI DJ globally, bots solve captchas better than humans, and more!
August 14, 2023
Last Week in AI #231
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Last Week in AI #231

AI brain implant restores movement in quadriplegic man, probe into how investment firms use AI, studios replacing movie extras with AI, Meta's AI chatbot, and more!
August 7, 2023
Last Week in AI #230
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Last Week in AI #230

Language models making robots smarter, AI to optimize emissions of diesel trains, NYC using AI to detect fare evasion, and more!
July 31, 2023
Last Week in AI #228
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Last Week in AI #228

Hospitals testing Google's medical AI chatbot, Elon Musk's new X.AI company, 65% AI startups have immigrant founders, Claude 2 w/ 100k context length, and more!
July 24, 2023
Last Week in AI #227
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Last Week in AI #227

NYC adopts anti-bias AI hiring law, EU and Japan to partner in AI chips and de-risk from China, ChatGPT traffic slows, and more!
July 10, 2023
Last Week in AI #226
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Last Week in AI #226

OpenAI lawsuits, NASA to explore AI on spaceships, OpenAI vs. Microsoft, generated content flooding the Internet, and more!
July 3, 2023
Last Week in AI #225
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Last Week in AI #225

ByteDance buys $1 billion of Nvidia GPUs, US State department to use AI to write contracts, release of fully open-source and commercially permissive LLaMA, AI is infiltrating crowd work, and more!
June 19, 2023
Last Week in AI #224
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Last Week in AI #224

EU's landmark AI regulation, AI used to voice John Lennon in last Beatles record, Meta's new voice synthesis AI, and more!
June 12, 2023
Last Week in AI #223
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Last Week in AI #223
June 12, 2023
Last Week in AI #222
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Last Week in AI #222
June 5, 2023
Last Week in AI #220
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Last Week in AI #220

Neeva AI search shuts down, EU's proposed laws would ban open source LLMs, generative AI and the writer's strike, and more!
May 15, 2023
Last Week in AI #219
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Last Week in AI #219

Google's new slate of generative AI products, Meta unveils generative ads, effects of US sanctions on Chineses AI firms, and more!
May 15, 2023
Last Week in AI #218
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Last Week in AI #218

Hinton warns of AI dangers ahead, rapid rise of AI-produced music, AI chatbots can now run locally on old computers, and more!
May 8, 2023
Last Week in AI #217
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Last Week in AI #217
May 1, 2023
Last Week in AI #216
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Last Week in AI #216

Video-generating AI based on Stable Diffusion, Stack Overflow to charge for LLM training data, Google combines Google Brain and DeepMind, and more!
April 24, 2023
Last Week in AI #215
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Last Week in AI #215

Fully open ChatGPT alternative, Google's AI product plans, AI remains nonpartisan, and more!
April 17, 2023
Last Week in AI #214
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Last Week in AI #214

AI chatbots' security risks, Canada opens probe into OpenAI, the 2023 AI Index Report, and more!
April 10, 2023
Last Week in AI #213
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Last Week in AI #213

US police used Clearview AI 1 million times, Bing Chatbot gets ads, Midjourney ends free trials due to abuse, and more!
April 4, 2023
Last Week in AI #211
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Last Week in AI #211
March 28, 2023
Last Week in AI #211
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Last Week in AI #211

GPT-4 is here, more LLMs released, Microsoft and Google integrate AI in products
March 21, 2023
Last Week in AI #210
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Last Week in AI #210

Open Source Chat-GPT, Meta's LLM leaks online, new funding round for Skydio
March 13, 2023
Last Week in AI #209
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Last Week in AI #209

ChatGPT API, ChatGPT's new rival, generative AI continues to make waves, and more!
March 6, 2023
Last Week in AI #208
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Last Week in AI #208

OpenAI's plan for AGI, generative voice broke into bank account, AI-Human romances, and more!
February 27, 2023
Last Week in AI #207
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Last Week in AI #207

Bing Chat's troubled beta tests, AI theory of mind, backslash against Spotify using voice actor data, and more!
February 20, 2023
Last Week in AI #206
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Last Week in AI #206

Microsoft adds ChatGPT to Bing, responses from Google, Meta, Alibaba, and more!
February 14, 2023
Last Week in AI #205
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Last Week in AI #205

How AI is going modular, growing legal cases against generative AI, tools to detect AI-generated text, and more!
February 6, 2023
Last Week in AI #204
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Last Week in AI #204
January 30, 2023
Last Week in AI #203
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Last Week in AI #203

ChatGPT's new rival, new concerns about Deepfakes, generative AI continues to make waves, and more!
January 23, 2023
Last Week in AI #202
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Last Week in AI #202

Generative models for protein and voice imitation, Japan is automating elder care, and more!
January 16, 2023
Last Week in AI #201
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Last Week in AI #201

How self-driving cars can help rural America, AI as national infrastructure, human art mistaken for AI art, and more!
January 9, 2023
Last Week in AI #199
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Last Week in AI #199

Can ChatGPT make money? TikTok to be more public about its algorithm, Google's response to AI chatbots, and more!
December 26, 2022
Last Week in AI #198
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Last Week in AI #198

How GPT learns to reason, Waymo expands to all of SF, Artists can opt-out from Stable Diffusion 3, and more!
December 19, 2022
Last Week in AI #197
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Last Week in AI #197

AI for Drug Discovery, Deep Reinforcement Learning for Atom Manipulation, SF rolls back plan for killer police robots, and more!
December 12, 2022
Last Week in AI #196
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Last Week in AI #196

OpenAI's ChatGPT storms the world of AI, DOJ investigating RealPage whose AI software may have illegally increased rents, SF debates police use of lethal robots, and more!
December 5, 2022
Last Week in AI #195
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Last Week in AI #195

Meta's AI can negotiate with and persuade people in the game of Diplomacy, how AI is used by the World Cup, AI-powered insect trap, and more!
November 28, 2022
Last Week in AI #194
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Last Week in AI #194

Amazon's new warehouse robots, Meta takes down language model demo after 3 days, anime convention bans AI art, and more!
November 21, 2022
Last Week in AI #193
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Last Week in AI #193

Meta lays off entire ML infra research team, Mythic analog AI chip startup runs out of cash, new generative AI startups, and more!
November 13, 2022
Last Week in AI #192
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Last Week in AI #192

Meta predicts shape of 600 million proteins, a teacher allows AI tools in exams, Twitter fires AI ethics team, and more!
November 7, 2022
Last Week in AI #191
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Last Week in AI #191

Argo self-driving shuts down, TSMC suspends work with Chinese Chip Startup, Shutterstock to sell AI-generated images, and more!
October 31, 2022
Last Week in AI #190
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Last Week in AI #190

Meta AI to translate speech, FedEx abandons last-mile delivery robots, overhyped medicine AI, and more!
October 24, 2022
Last Week in AI #189
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Last Week in AI #189

State of AI 2022, AI-generated clip art, reducing waste with ML, and more!
October 17, 2022
Last Week in AI #188
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Last Week in AI #188

Google's Imagen Text-to-Video Model, slow progress in self-driving cars, AI's role in chess scandal, and more!
October 10, 2022
Last Week in AI #187: Tesla's Optimus Bot, Limiting Facial Recognition in the US, DALL-E for video, and more!
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Last Week in AI #187: Tesla's Optimus Bot, Limiting Facial Recognition in the US, DALL-E for video, and more!

Robot prototype unveiled at Tesla's AI Day, house Democrats debut new bill to limit US police use of facial recognition, Meta’s new text-to-video AI generator is like DALL-E for video
October 3, 2022
Last Week in AI #186
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Last Week in AI #186

OpenAI's new speech-to-text AI, Nvidia's generative model for realistic 3D object, Ukrainian AI startup to produce the voice of Darth Vader, and more!
September 26, 2022
Last Week in AI #185
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Last Week in AI #185

PyTorch to be governed by Linux Foundation, FTC to regulate unfair AI use, Censorships in Chinese image-making AI, and more!
September 19, 2022
Last Week in AI #184
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Last Week in AI #184

Uber Eats to Deliver with Nuro Cars, AI helping students to cheat, Apple applies AI in health and accessibility, and more!
September 12, 2022
Last Week in AI #183
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Last Week in AI #183

AI to decode speech from brain activity, DALL-E can now draw bigger images, AI to assess mental well-being of children, and more!
September 5, 2022
Last Week in AI #182
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Last Week in AI #182

AI for text-to-video, Tesla's new Dojo AI supercomputer, state of AI policies, and more!
August 29, 2022
Last Week in AI #181
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Last Week in AI #181

AI trash-sorting robot, China's rules on public transport self driving, AI to predict flashovers in fires, and more!
August 22, 2022
Last Week in AI #180
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Last Week in AI #180

Meta's troubled chat bot, AI in femtech, Science AI's reproducibility crises, and more!
August 15, 2022
Last Week in AI #179: AI to save threatened species, ace university math, talk to animals, and more!
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Last Week in AI #179: AI to save threatened species, ace university math, talk to animals, and more!

How machine learning could help save threatened species from extinction, new algorithm aces university math course questions, a 175B parameter publicly available chatbot
August 9, 2022
Last Week in AI #178: Google Is Selling AI to Israel, facial recognition ban in New Orleans, AI for Lego Instructions, and more!
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Last Week in AI #178: Google Is Selling AI to Israel, facial recognition ban in New Orleans, AI for Lego Instructions, and more!

Documents Reveal Advanced AI Tools Google Is Selling to Israel, police can use facial recognition again after ban in New Orleans, AI can figure out confusing Lego instructions
August 1, 2022
Last Week in AI #177
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Last Week in AI #177

OpenAI commercializes DALL-E 2, Sony AI beats human competitors in racing game, Gmail getting smarter searches, and more!
July 25, 2022
Last Week in AI #176
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Last Week in AI #176

Drones beat human pilots in first fair race, better call quality with AI, how artists view AI-generated art, and more!
July 18, 2022
Last Week in AI #175
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Last Week in AI #175

Cruise Car Outages, AI-generated influencers, AI regulations in Europe, and more!
July 11, 2022
Last Week in AI #174
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Last Week in AI #174

Cerebras sets record for largest AI model on one device, open source large language model, robotaxis paralyzed, and more!
July 4, 2022
Last Week in AI #173
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Last Week in AI #173

AI learns to complete tasks in Minecraft, Instagram AI scans faces for age verification, Amazon launches AI pair programming tool, and more!
June 27, 2022
Last Week in AI #172
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Last Week in AI #172

Controversy over Google's 'sentient' chatbot, accessible AI image generation, Reddit bans deepfakes sub, AI to improve video calls, and more!
June 20, 2022
Last Week in AI #171
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Last Week in AI #171

Clearview AI in Ukraine, AI to translate Hieroglyphics, AI for automatically dubbing videos, and more!
June 13, 2022
Last Week in AI #170
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Last Week in AI #170

Tricking autonomous vehicles to drive dangerously, AI to track and prevent deforestation, Google bans deepfakes in Colab, and more!
June 6, 2022
Last Week in AI #169
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Last Week in AI #169

Royal Mail will deliver with drones, backdoors in deep learning, AI for weather forecasts, and more!
May 30, 2022
Last Week in AI #168
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Last Week in AI #168

Autonomous cargo ships, how AI is used in Hollywood, AI to search for guns in public, and more!
May 23, 2022
Last Week in AI #167
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Last Week in AI #167

Enzyme developed with AI to decompose plastic, Hugging Face leads $100 million funding on accessible large language models, new ambitious EU AI Act, and more!
May 16, 2022
Last Week in AI #166
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Last Week in AI #166

New methods to detect deepfakes, AI for smarter farming, AI to detect heart problems from Apple Watch, and more!
May 9, 2022
Last Week in AI #165
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Last Week in AI #165

AI helps to better model volcanos, Anthropic to develop more explainable AI, concerns for AI algorithms that screen for child neglect, and more!
May 2, 2022
Last Week in AI #164
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Last Week in AI #164

AI uses in government surveillance, GM uses AI software to teach human drivers, actors union warns about AI actors, and more!
April 25, 2022
Last Week in AI #163
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Last Week in AI #163

AI chip startup fundings doubled in the last 5 years, new AI application sin hospitals and restaurants, and more!
April 18, 2022
Last Week in AI #162
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Last Week in AI #162

OpenAI DALL-E 2 draws pictures from complex text descriptions, Google's new 540 billion parameters langauge model, Clearview branches out beyond police, and more!
April 11, 2022
Last Week in AI #161
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Last Week in AI #161

AI improves algae biofuels, more AI decision-making in the military, and more!
April 4, 2022
Last Week in AI #160
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Last Week in AI #160

Super fast 3D perception from Nvidia, Ukraine uses face recognition to identify dead Russian soldiers, US-China AI collaboration drops, and more!
March 28, 2022
Last Week in AI #159
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Last Week in AI #159

AI drug discovery can be used to discover lethal molecules, improvements to Transformer training efficiency, and more!
March 21, 2022
Last Week in AI #158
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Last Week in AI #158

AI to detect problematic gambling, police surveillance of protestors, low-cost way to tune large AI models, and more!
March 14, 2022
Last Week in AI #157
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Last Week in AI #157

AI to combat robocallers, concerns about EU's definition of AI, and more!
March 7, 2022
Last Week in AI #156
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Last Week in AI #156

DeepMind applies AI to nuclear fusion reactors, Texas sues Meta over facial recognition, SenseTime expands into manufacturing, and more!
February 21, 2022
Last Week in AI #155
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Last Week in AI #155

New way for AI to see in 3D, AI for translating ancient languages, lawmakers pressure Feds to stop using Clearview AI, and more!
February 14, 2022
Last Week in AI #154
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Last Week in AI #154

Light-based AI chips, DeepMind AI for competitive coding, EU and US AI regulations, and more!
February 7, 2022
Last Week in AI #153
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Last Week in AI #153

OpenAI's new, less-toxic language model, Meta to build fastest AI supercomputer, Deepfake regulations across the world
January 31, 2022
Last Week in AI #152
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Last Week in AI #152

Self-driving trucks in Texas, AI fighter pilots, robots to help in nursing staff shortage, and more!
January 24, 2022
Last Week in AI #151
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Last Week in AI #151

AI helps in early warning system for new Covid-19 variants, increased federal spending on facial recognition, AI used to detect fake art, and more!
January 17, 2022
Last Week in AI #150
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Last Week in AI #150

Self-farming farms, and more!
January 10, 2022
Last Week in AI #149
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Last Week in AI #149

AI enables brain interface for robot control, Deep Learning suffers from overinterpretation, and more!
January 3, 2022
Last Week in AI #148
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Last Week in AI #148

AI art generator app, new wave of AI language startups, facial recognition persists despite bans, and more!
December 27, 2021
Last Week in AI #147
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Last Week in AI #147

Failure to regulate 'killer robots', how TikTok reads your mind, the Transactions on Machine Learning Research
December 20, 2021
Last Week in AI #146
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Last Week in AI #146

How AI can improve therapists, AI restores audio and video for the Beatles documentary, US blacklists SenseTime ahead of IPO, and more!
December 13, 2021
Last Week in AI #145
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Last Week in AI #145

DeepMind AI helps to discover new math theorems, Clearview AI warned to stop using UK data, and more!
December 6, 2021
Last Week in AI #144
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Last Week in AI #144

AI helps to discover new planets, UN's new AI ethics guidelines ban social scoring, and more!
November 29, 2021
Last Week in AI #143
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Last Week in AI #143

Google has 100+ robots in its offices, company claims it can detect lies from eye movement, multilingual beats bilingual translations, and more!
November 22, 2021
Last Week in AI #142
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Last Week in AI #142

Tesla FSD crash, French AI strategy, CMU opens AI maker space, and more!
November 15, 2021
Last Week in AI #141
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Last Week in AI #141

Using AI to understand whale speech, Facebook shuts down face recongition system, AI in US national secruity, and more!
November 8, 2021
Last Week in AI #140
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Last Week in AI #140

Adobe may have a Deepfake tool, Clearview AI takes part in third-party test, how AI can help supply chains, and more!
November 1, 2021
Last Week in AI #139
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Last Week in AI #139

DeepMind acquires MuJoCo physics simulator and releases it for free, UK schools warned over facial recognition, Google lawyers slow down internal AI research, and more!
October 24, 2021
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
Last Week in AI #137
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Last Week in AI #137

Intel's neuromorphic chips, Chinese AI ethics guidelindes, Clearview AI's new facial recognition tools, and more!
October 11, 2021
Last Week in AI #136
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Last Week in AI #136

Amazon's new home robot, DeepMind AI predicts where it's going to rain, the future of AI ethics, and more!
October 4, 2021
Last Week in AI #135
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Last Week in AI #135

FDA approves AI-assisted cancer diagnosis, UK outlines national AI strategy, and more!
September 27, 2021
Last Week in AI #134
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Last Week in AI #134

How AI can fight climate change, prominent Facebook misinfo AI researcher quits, AI progress through image generation, and more!
September 20, 2021
Last Week in AI #133
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Last Week in AI #133

Deepfake cyberattacks, Project Maven updates, AI's geographic concentration in the U.S.
September 13, 2021
Last Week in AI #132
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Last Week in AI #132

High-risk AI applications, AI can't be granted patents, lending real faces for deepfakes, and more!
September 6, 2021
Last Week in AI #131
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Last Week in AI #131

How to train neural nets with 100 trillion parameters, healthcare AI tools aren't well documented, and more!
August 30, 2021
Last Week in AI #130
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Last Week in AI #130

Tesla's future humanoid robot, Stanford on large-scale AI models, the poetry of AI Art
August 23, 2021
Last Week in AI #129
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Last Week in AI #129

AI to write code, AI for nuclear fusion, and more!
August 16, 2021
Last Week in AI #128
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Last Week in AI #128

Warehouse robots, drone delivery woes, AI to tackle online harrasement, and more!
August 9, 2021
Last Week in AI #127
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Last Week in AI #127

EU and Chinese AI regulations, U.S. invests in AI research, and more!
August 2, 2021
Last Week in AI #126
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Last Week in AI #126

New robotics company from Google, automatic code generation, AI chatbot therapists, and more!
July 26, 2021
Last Week in AI #125
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Last Week in AI #125

AI generated Art, AI for protein folding, sanctions against facial recognition company, and more!
July 19, 2021
Last Week in AI #124
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Last Week in AI #124

Maine's facial recognition law, hate speech detection on Tiktok, and more!
July 12, 2021
Last Week in AI #123
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Last Week in AI #123

Robots (not) in search and rescue, AI influencing pop music, and more!
July 5, 2021
Last Week in AI #122
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Last Week in AI #122

Ethical AI, de-biasing job-matching AI, and more!
June 28, 2021
Last Week in AI #121
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Last Week in AI #121

AI to spot wildfires, human oversight of AI, and more!
June 21, 2021
Last Week in AI #120
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Last Week in AI #120

AI for AI chips, AI's failure at moderating hate speech, and more!
June 14, 2021
Last Week in AI #119
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Last Week in AI #119

Autonomous lethal drones used in Libya, King County bans government use of facial recognition, and more!
June 7, 2021
Last Week in AI #118
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Last Week in AI #118

Disinformation, the OpenAI Startup Fund, and more!
May 31, 2021
Last Week in AI #117
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Last Week in AI #117

Large Language Models at Google, Twitter forgoes image-cropping algorithms, and more!
May 24, 2021
Last Week in AI #116
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Last Week in AI #116

Making AI algorithms show their work, an expansion to Google's AI Ethics research team, and more!
May 17, 2021
Last Week in AI #115
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Last Week in AI #115

Self-driving car woes, hiding from facial recognition, and more!s
May 10, 2021
Last Week in AI #114
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Last Week in AI #114

Green neural net training, deepfake geography, and more!
May 2, 2021
Last Week in AI #113
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Last Week in AI #113

New EU AI regulations, AI for spotting pollution hotspots, and more!
April 26, 2021
Last Week in AI #112
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Last Week in AI #112

Google's reputation with AI researchers, EU AI regulations, and more!
April 19, 2021
Last Week in AI #111
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Last Week in AI #111

U.S. AI workforce, using RL to train bipedal robots, and more!
April 12, 2021
Last Week in AI #110
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Last Week in AI #110

New robot from Boston Dynamics, Deepfake Amazon workers, and more!
April 5, 2021
Last Week in AI #109
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Last Week in AI #109

Another Google boycott, robots for household chores, and more!
March 29, 2021
Last Week in AI #108
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Last Week in AI #108

Forced biased labeling in crowdsourced data, testing self-driving cars on past crashes, and more!
March 22, 2021
Last Week in AI #107
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Last Week in AI #107

A new lawsuit against Clearview AI, Facebook's addiction to spreading misinformation, and more!
March 15, 2021
Last Week in AI #106
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Last Week in AI #106

AI Trends in 2020, AI algorithm to sniff out disease, and more!
March 8, 2021
Last Week in AI #105
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Last Week in AI #105

An AI rebel alliance, Google fires Margaret Mitchell, and more!
March 1, 2021
Last Week in AI #104
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Last Week in AI #104

AI for job interviews, development of autonomous weapons, and more!
February 22, 2021
Last Week in AI #103
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Last Week in AI #103

AI-powered coronavirus screening, banning deepfake porn, and more!
February 15, 2021
Last Week in AI #102
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Last Week in AI #102

AI for proposing math conjectures, building chatbots of the deceased, and more!
February 8, 2021
Last Week in AI #101
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Last Week in AI #101
February 1, 2021
Last Week in AI #100
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Last Week in AI #100

AI to detect microearthquakes, concerns with AI-predicted trustworthiness, and more!
January 25, 2021
Last Week in AI #99
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Last Week in AI #99

Facial recognition at the Capitol, National AI Initiative Office, and more!
January 18, 2021
Last Week in AI #98
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Last Week in AI #98

AI to create images from text, how to build AI for good, and more!
January 11, 2021
Last Week in AI #97
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Last Week in AI #97

NY's moratorium on facial recognition, a false arrest because of facial recognition, and more!
January 4, 2021
Last Week in AI #96
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Last Week in AI #96

Invisible workers of AI, how AI can help with dyslexia, and more!
December 21, 2020
Last Week in AI #95
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Last Week in AI #95

Making AI more energy efficient, regulating AI hiring tools, and more!
December 14, 2020
Last Week in AI #94
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Last Week in AI #94

AlphaFold, Timnit Gebru, and more!
December 7, 2020
Last Week in AI #93
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Last Week in AI #93

Danger of deepfakes, AI for drug discovery, and more!
November 28, 2020
Last Week in AI #92
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Last Week in AI #92

Problems with deep learning, AI-trained counselors, database of AI incidents, and more!
November 23, 2020
Last Week in AI #91
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Last Week in AI #91

AI's replication crisis, government-sponsored medical AI, and more!
November 16, 2020
Last Week in AI #90
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Last Week in AI #90

Impacts of AI systems' decisions, future of deep learning, and more!
November 7, 2020
Last Week in AI #89
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Last Week in AI #89

AI patents, AI audio search, identifying asymptomatic Covid carriers, and more!
November 1, 2020
Last Week in AI #88
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Last Week in AI #88

AI translations, advances in assistive AI, AI for farming, and more!
October 25, 2020
Last Week in AI #87
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Last Week in AI #87

Inclusive AI, less-than-one-shot learning, and more!
October 17, 2020
Last Week in AI #86
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Last Week in AI #86

Falling investments in AVs, GPT-3 bot on reddit, Deepfake actors, and more!
October 10, 2020
Last Week in AI #85
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Last Week in AI #85

Ceiling-mounted robots, deploying AI in hospitals, neuron-like electronics, and more!
October 4, 2020
Last Week in AI #84
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Last Week in AI #84

LAPD facial recognition, Twitter and Zoom's algorithmic bias, and more!
September 27, 2020
Last Week in AI #83
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Last Week in AI #83

AI guidelines for children, face-mask recognition, space robots, and more!
September 20, 2020
Last Week in AI #82
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Last Week in AI #82

AI for lowering wildfire risk, international clinical AI standards, and more!
September 13, 2020
Last Week in AI #81
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Last Week in AI #81

Automated chemical synthesis, using heartbeats to detect deepfakes, and more!
September 6, 2020
Last Week in AI #80
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Last Week in AI #80

Progress on AI ethics, Hulu's deepfake ads, and more!
August 30, 2020
Last Week in AI #79
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Last Week in AI #79

Detecting hate speech, dogfight simulation, disaster-response, and more!
August 23, 2020
Last Week in AI #78
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Last Week in AI #78

Pro-China propaganda, a Clearview/ICE contract, and more!
August 16, 2020
Last Week in AI #77
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Last Week in AI #77

AI's struggles in 2020, robots rising in the pandemic, Chinese AI surveillance, and more!
August 9, 2020
Last Week in AI #76
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Last Week in AI #76

Face masks breaking facial recognition, Rite Aid deploying facial recognition, and more!
August 2, 2020
Last Week in AI #75
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Last Week in AI #75

AI for modeling, "bias-free" AI hiring, and more!
July 26, 2020
Last Week in AI #74
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Last Week in AI #74

Deep learning's compute limits, invisible AI in healthcare, and more!
July 19, 2020
Last Week in AI #73
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Last Week in AI #73

AI therapist, how AI shifts power, robot lab assistant, and more!
July 12, 2020
Last Week in AI #72
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Last Week in AI #72

Deepfakes for good, AI's carbon footprint, and more!
July 5, 2020
Last Week in AI #71
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Last Week in AI #71

AI bias, Flawed face recognition leads to wrongful arrest, and more!
June 28, 2020
Last Week in AI #70
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Last Week in AI #70

Deep learning without GPUs, inclusivity at NeurIPS, and more!
June 21, 2020
Last Week in AI #69
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Last Week in AI #69

Stopping police use of face recognition, #ShutdownSTEM, and more!
June 14, 2020
Last Week in AI #68
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Last Week in AI #68

Police surveillance and protesters, AI for productivity scoring, and more!
June 7, 2020
Last Week in AI #67
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Last Week in AI #67

Robots to help small retailers, misleading AI advances, and more!
May 31, 2020
Last Week in AI #66
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Last Week in AI #66

Low trust in self-driving cars, dark past of crime prediction, and more!
May 24, 2020
Last Week in AI #65
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Last Week in AI #65

AI-powered background checks, social robots for dogs, and more!
May 17, 2020
Last Week in AI #64
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Last Week in AI #64

Tracking AI Efficiency, AI for tax policy, and more!
May 10, 2020
Last Week in AI #63
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Last Week in AI #63

AI hype on Covid-19, social robots for kids, AI writes music and poems, and more!
May 3, 2020
Last Week in AI #62
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Last Week in AI #62

AI research ethical concerns, AI tackling climate change, and more!
April 26, 2020
Last Week in AI #61
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Last Week in AI #61

Trustworthy AI developments, AI without supervision, and more!
April 19, 2020
Last Week in AI #60
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Last Week in AI #60

Improving AI news coverage, Europe's AI regulations, and more!
April 12, 2020
Last Week in AI #59
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Last Week in AI #59

AI for the brain, Using AI responsibly for Covid-19, and more!
April 5, 2020
Last Week in AI #58
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Last Week in AI #58

Robots vs Covid-19, biased speech recognition systems, and more!
March 29, 2020
Last Week in AI #57
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Last Week in AI #57

Future of self-driving trucks, AI in making triage decisions, and more!
March 22, 2020
Last Week in AI #56
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Last Week in AI #56

AI and Covid-19, cashierless stores, and more!
March 15, 2020
Last Week in AI #55
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Last Week in AI #55

Predictive Policing, AI Tackles Misinformation, and more!
March 8, 2020
Last Week in AI #54
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Last Week in AI #54

Large-scale Facial Recognition, AI and Coronavirus, and more!
March 1, 2020
Last Week in AI #53
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Last Week in AI #53

OpenAI's secrets, AI for reading license plates, robot surgeons, and more!
February 23, 2020
Last Week in AI #52
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Last Week in AI #52

Problems with AI in job screening, emotion recognition, and more!
February 16, 2020
Last Week in AI #51
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Last Week in AI #51

AI for good, AI applications for coronavirus, and more!
February 9, 2020
Last Week in AI #50
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Last Week in AI #50

AI to mitigate human's impact on the environment, how interpretable AI can make things worse, and more!
February 2, 2020
Last Week in AI #49
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Last Week in AI #49

The end of privacy, markets for regulation, the economics of AI today, and more!
January 26, 2020
Last Week in AI #48
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Last Week in AI #48

Fighting fake news bots, algorithmic bias, and more!
January 19, 2020
Last Week in AI #47
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Last Week in AI #47

AI Export Limits, Politics Bots, and more!
January 12, 2020
Last Week in AI #46
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Last Week in AI #46

Ethics, AI for breast cancer screening, and more!
January 5, 2020
Last Week in AI #45
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Last Week in AI #45

AI news coverage, Deepfake bots, and more!
December 22, 2019
Last Week in AI #44
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Last Week in AI #44

Biased machines vs biased humans, the AI Index Report, drone racing and more!
December 15, 2019
Last Week in AI #43
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Last Week in AI #43

China's rule against deepfakes, disinformation heading into the 2020 election, and more!
December 9, 2019
Last Week in AI #42
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Last Week in AI #42

AI surveillance, retail robots, AI for battery tech, and more!
December 1, 2019
Last Week in AI #41
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Last Week in AI #41

AI in psychiatry, Sony's new AI lab, and more!
November 24, 2019
Last Week in AI #40
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Last Week in AI #40

Biased credit assignment, the future of work, and more!
November 17, 2019
Last Week in AI #39
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Last Week in AI #39

Self-driving car challenges, Deepfake detections, and more!
November 10, 2019
Last Week in AI #38
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Last Week in AI #38

Deepfake legislation, driverless rides, three-body solutions, and more!
November 3, 2019
Last Week in AI #37
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Last Week in AI #37

AI Publication Norms, Google Search Improvements, and more!
October 27, 2019
Last Week in AI #36
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Last Week in AI #36

Interactive fairness games, manipulating cubes, restoring ancient texts and more!
October 20, 2019
Last Week in AI #35
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Last Week in AI #35

AI-powered X-Ray vision, the state of Deep Fakes, and more!
October 13, 2019
Last Week in AI #34
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Last Week in AI #34

AI development in Africa, AI for astronomy, and more!
October 6, 2019
Last Week in AI #33
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Last Week in AI #33

Fairer AI for healthcare, earthquake prediction, and more!
September 29, 2019
Last Week in AI #32
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Last Week in AI #32

Deepfake anonymization, measuring the carbon impact of AI, and more!
September 22, 2019
Last Week in AI #31
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Last Week in AI #31

White House AI Summit, AI in Standardized Testing, and more!
September 15, 2019
Last Week in AI #30
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Last Week in AI #30

ML for biomechanics, data protection of minorities, Evolution Strategies and more!
September 8, 2019
Last Week in AI #29
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Last Week in AI #29

Composing an entire album with AI, Jordan Peterson comments on deepfakes, and more!
September 1, 2019
Last Week in AI #28
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Last Week in AI #28

The world's largest AI chip, OpenAI's GPT-2 update and more!
August 25, 2019
Last Week in AI #27
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Last Week in AI #27

Analysis of Deepmind's losses, alternatives to facial recognition tracking and more!
August 18, 2019
Last Week in AI #26
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Last Week in AI #26

Big losses from DeepMind, knitting with AI, robot traffic police, and more!
August 11, 2019
Last Week in AI #25
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Last Week in AI #25

AI to predict diseases, emotions, and more!
August 4, 2019
Last Week in AI #24
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Last Week in AI #24

Raising money to build AGI, AI in airports, AI powered code completion and more!
July 28, 2019
Last Week in AI #23
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Last Week in AI #23

Retraining workers, commercializing robots, and more!
July 21, 2019
Last Week in AI #22
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Last Week in AI #22

Robots in Hospitals, AI for Science, and more!
July 15, 2019
Last Week in AI #21
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Last Week in AI #21

Self-driving cars timeline, Weed-killing robots, and more!
May 20, 2019
Last Week in AI News #20
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Last Week in AI News #20

Confronting AI risks, investments, lawsuits, and more!
May 6, 2019
Last Week in AI News #19
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Last Week in AI News #19

Supposedly full self driving, automation woes, AI music, and more!
April 29, 2019
Last Week in AI News #18
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Last Week in AI News #18

Laws and reports on bias, AI use in art, new robots, and more!
April 22, 2019
Last Week in AI News #17
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Last Week in AI News #17

OpenAI's big DOTA win, US and EU AI regulation proposals, and more!
April 15, 2019
Skynet This Week #16
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Skynet This Week #16

Summary of recent AI news on OpenAI GPT-2, AI ethics, and more!
March 4, 2019
Skynet This Week #15: top AI news from 01/07-01/21
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Skynet This Week #15: top AI news from 01/07-01/21

Hype, concern, great research blog posts, and more!
January 28, 2019
Skynet This Year 2018
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Skynet This Year 2018

A roundup of notable AI news from 2018 that are still relevant today
December 30, 2018
Skynet This Week #14: top AI news from 11/19-12/03
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Skynet This Week #14: top AI news from 11/19-12/03

Robot caregivers & hands, tinkering & art, and more!
December 10, 2018
Skynet This Week #13: top AI news from 11/05/18-11/19/18
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Skynet This Week #13: top AI news from 11/05/18-11/19/18

Investments & projections, Believing & Trusting, and more!
November 19, 2018
Skynet This Week #12: top AI news from 10/22/18 - 11/05/18
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Skynet This Week #12: top AI news from 10/22/18 - 11/05/18

AI poetry, helpful curiosity, social good, and more!
November 5, 2018
Skynet This Week #11: top AI news from 10/8/18 - 10/22/18
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Skynet This Week #11: top AI news from 10/8/18 - 10/22/18

Biased recruiting tools, explainable AI, AI pop music and more!
October 22, 2018
Skynet This Week #10: top AI news from 09/24/18 - 10/08/18
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Skynet This Week #10: top AI news from 09/24/18 - 10/08/18

AI painting, pessimistic laypeople, optimistic experts, and more!
October 8, 2018
Skynet This Week #9: top AI news from 09/10/18 - 09/24/18
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Skynet This Week #9: top AI news from 09/10/18 - 09/24/18

Recycled DeepFakes, running robots, invisible elephants, and more!
September 24, 2018
Skynet This Week #8: top AI news from 08/27/18 - 09/10/18
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Skynet This Week #8: top AI news from 08/27/18 - 09/10/18

Safe deployment, standards talk, government policy, and more!
September 10, 2018
Skynet This Week #7: top AI news from 08/13/18 - 08/27/18
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Skynet This Week #7: top AI news from 08/13/18 - 08/27/18

OpenAI’s big loss, DeekFake dancing, AI drawing, and more!
August 27, 2018
Skynet This Week #6: top AI news from 07/30/18 - 08/13/18
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Skynet This Week #6: top AI news from 07/30/18 - 08/13/18

Dota defeats, DeepFakes discoveries, rising robots, and more!
August 13, 2018
Skynet This Week #5: top AI news from 07/16/18 - 07/30/18
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Skynet This Week #5: top AI news from 07/16/18 - 07/30/18

Company news, weapons and bias concerns, AI history, and more!
July 30, 2018
Skynet This Week #4
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Skynet This Week #4

OpenAI bots, robots, surveillance, and more!
July 16, 2018
Skynet This Week #3
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Skynet This Week #3

Robot uprisings, AI bias, and new policy initiatives, and more!
July 2, 2018
Skynet This Week #2
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Skynet This Week #2

Smart speaker drama, self driving anxiety, soul searching, and more!
June 18, 2018
Skynet This Week #1
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Skynet This Week #1

Brain mysteries, robot apocalypse, Elon Musk memes, and more!
May 14, 2018
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