Tesla Bot, AI Val Kilmer, DeepMind‘s Perceiver IO, Apple‘s NeuralHash
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Our 69th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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- Applications
Elon Musk unveils 'Tesla bot,' a humanoid robot that would be made from Tesla's self-driving AI
AI gave Val Kilmer his voice back. But critics worry the technology could be misused.
- Research 100+ Standford Researchers Publish 200+ Page Paper on the AI Paradigm Shift Introduced by Large-Scale Models DeepMind Open-Sources Perceiver IO, A General-Purpose Deep Learning Model Architecture That Handles A Wide Range of Data and Tasks
- Ethics
Reddit user reverse-engineers what they believe is Apple's solution to flag child sex abuse
How AI-powered Tech Landed Man In Jail With Scant Evidence - Fun
Philip Glass on Artificial Intelligence and Art
The Bouba/Kiki Effect And Sound Symbolism In CLIP
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