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#100 - Depression, Energy Grid, MRI, Astronomy, DALLE Logos
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Our 100th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Outline:
- (00:00) Intro
- (03:12) Depressed? This algorithm can tell from the tone of your voice
- (09:38) Energy Grids Plug into AI for a Brighter, Cleaner Future
- (15:40) Meet ‘Codeball’ – A Deep Learning-based Automated Code Reviewer That Will Help Maintainers Review Github Pull Requests
- (18:23) Alimentation Couche-Tard to deploy over 10,000 AI-powered cash registers at stores
- (19:40) Machine Learning Shows That More Reptile Species May Be at Risk of Extinction Than Previously Thought
- (20:30) How AI brought Val Kilmer’s ‘Iceman’ back into Top Gun: Maverick
- (26:40) Can machine learning deliver one-minute brain MRI scans?
- (32:04) AI model’s insight helps astronomers propose new theory for observing far-off worlds
- (32:00) Caltech unit creates AI helping drones to withstand violent winds
- (32:35) UC Berkeley’s Automated Crossword Solver Achieves 99.9% Letter Accuracy, Wins Top Tournament
- (33:55) $10.5M Army Contract to CMU Lab Will Expand Use of AI in Predictive Maintenance
- (34:50) China's AI defense can reportedly predict the course of hypersonic missiles
- (35:47) US robot orders surge 40% as labor shortages, inflation persist
- (41:36) A Face Search Engine Anyone Can Use Is Alarmingly Accurate
- (49:48) Google bans deepfake-generating AI from Colab
- (50:53) Seoul to create disaster response platform using AI
- (51:48) Dutch police create deepfake video of murdered boy, 13, in hope of new leads
- (52:35) Oregon dropping AI tool used in child abuse cases
- (50:37) AI versus corporate logos
- (58:14) I asked AI to make a Music Video... the results are trippy
- (01:01:00) Outro
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