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The Evolving Impact of Robots on Jobs Sep 19, 2020

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An interview with Professors Jong Hyun Chung and Yong Suk Lee about their recent paper The Evolving Impact of Robots on Jobs.

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GPT-3 Clickbait, Wildfires, Heroes, Standards, Exports Sep 17, 2020

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Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

This week Hope Returns to the Machine Learning Universe, California Utilities Hope Drones, AI Will Lower Risk of Future Wildfires, How to edit writing by a robot: a step-by-step guide, The Guardian’s GPT-3-generated article is everything wrong with media hype, *AI standards launched to help tackle the problem of overhyped studies, IBM says U.S. should adopt new export controls on facial recognition systems

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0:40 - 5:00 News Summary segment
5:00 News Discussion segment

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Heartbeat DeepFake Detection, Robot Drug Tests, Ethics as a Service Sep 10, 2020

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Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

This week AI researchers use heartbeat detection to identify deepfake videos, This know-it-all AI learns by reading the entire web nonstop, Google Offers to Help Others With the Tricky Ethics of AI, Robotics, AI, and Cloud Computing Combine to Supercharge Chemical and Drug Synthesis

0:00 - 0:40 Intro
0:40 - 4:00 News Summary segment
4:00 News Discussion segment

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DeepFake Ads and Memes, New AI Ethics, and AI for Emergency Response Sep 04, 2020

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Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

This week "Hulu deepfaked its new ad. It won’t be the last.", "Memers are making deepfakes, and things are getting weird" , "The term ‘ethical AI’ is finally starting to mean something", and "The utopian promise and dystopian potential of real-time detection of police, fire, and medical emergencies".

Intro: 0:00 - 0:45
News Summary segment: 0:45 - 6:45
News Discussion segment: 6:45 onward

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U.S. Public Opinion about AI with Professor Paul Brewer and co-authors Sep 02, 2020

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An interview with Professor Paul Brewer and PhD Students James Bingaman and Ashely Paintsil about their new survey paper "Media Messages and U.S. Public Opinion about Artificial Intelligence" about what the general U.S. public thinks about AI, and how popular media and interaction with new technology shapes it.

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Machine Learning + Procedural Content Generation with Julian Togelius and Sebastian Risi Aug 29, 2020

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An interview with Professors Julian Togelius and Sebastian Risi about their new survey paper "Increasing generality in machine learning through procedural content generation", their work at modl.ai, and more!

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Hate Speech, Applied AI, NYPD, & Grades Aug 26, 2020

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Our latest roundup of last week's big AI news!

Plus, Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss the news and offer their thoughts.

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AI Setting Grades, ICE Pays Clearview, and Much More Aug 22, 2020

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Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories.
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The Alexa Prize Challenge with Stanford's Abigail See and Ashwin Paranjape Aug 20, 2020

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An interview with Stanford AI Lab PhDs Abigal See and Ashwin Paranjape about their involvement with the Alexa Prize Challenge and what it took to enable their chatbot Chirpy Cardinal to take second place.

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Mini Episode: ICE/Clearview, Race Detection and Schools Aug 16, 2020

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Our thirteenth audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news!

This week, we look at the ICE/Clearview AI contract, the growth of race detection software, and how AI is being used to assign students final grades and reopen schools.

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