Malware in AI models, Algorithmic Bias Bounty, Robot Beach-Cleaners and Beehives
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Our 66th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! NOTE: audio is fixed on this upload.
This week:
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Meet BeachBot, a beach rover that uses AI to remove cigarette butts from beaches
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Here Is A Fully Autonomous AI-Powered Beehive That Could Save Bee Colonies
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Researchers demonstrate that malware can be hidden inside AI models
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Facebook AI Releases ‘VoxPopuli’, A Large-Scale Open Multilingual Speech Corpus For AI Translations in NLP Systems
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China built the world's largest facial recognition system. Now, it's getting camera-shy.
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Twitter announces first algorithmic bias bounty challenge
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Say Hello To The Tokyo Olympic Robots
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