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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
Analysis of 100 Weeks of Curated AI News
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Analysis of 100 Weeks of Curated AI News

A look at trends from 100 weeks of AI news, and AI-generated AI news snippets!
January 25, 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
AI News in 2020: a Digest
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AI News in 2020: a Digest

An overview of the big AI-related stories of 2020
December 28, 2020
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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