Sep 1
World Models and the Future of Spatial AI with Justin Johnson - #775
In this episode, Justin Johnson, co-founder of World Labs, joins us to discuss world models and the emerging field of spatial AI. We explore why many researchers see capabilities beyond language as an important frontier for AI, and what it means to build models that can understan ... Show More
1h 6m
Aug 26
Why the Next AI Breakthrough May Come from Physics with Max Welling - #774
The conventional wisdom in AI is that the next breakthrough will come from more compute, more data, and larger models. But what if the next leap comes from somewhere else? In this episode, Max Welling—co-founder and CTO of CuspAI and professor at the University of Amsterdam—argue ... Show More
58m 5s
Aug 12
Why Image Generation Needs More Than Bigger Models with Fatih Porikli - #773
Text-to-image models have become remarkably good at producing realistic images. But realism isn’t the same as correctness. Ask for several distinct people, a specific composition, or a high-resolution image generated locally, and today’s models still struggle in surprising ways. ... Show More
56m 47s
Nov 2021
Record High AI Funding, AfriBERTa, Facial Recognition in the West Bank, Tesla FSD Beta Crash, AI for Stressed Dogs
Our 78th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Check our text version of this news roundup over at lastweekin.ai. This week: (00:00) Intro (01:40) Walmart is using fully driverless trucks to ramp up its onlin ... Show More
32m 17s
Aug 2021
Fabricated AI Research, AI Phishing Emails, AI Package Theft Detection
Our 67th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: A new generation of AI-powered robots is taking over warehouses With a nudge from AI, ketamine emerges as a potential rare disease treatment Tortured phrases' give away fabricated research paper ... Show More
31m 46s
Nov 2021
AI for Game Mods and Moderation, Tesla‘s Beta Rollback, Clearview AI Tested, ruDALL-E
Our 76th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Check our text version of this news roundup over at lastweekin.ai. This week: AI voice-acting tool xVASynth gets even better at recreating videogame voices Micro ... Show More
24m 57s
Mar 2024
Apple acquires DarwinAI, Starship flight 3 launch, DeepMind's AI plays Goat Simulator
We're experimenting and would love to hear from you!On today's episode of Discover Daily, we explore the latest developments in the worlds of technology, space exploration, and artificial intelligence. From Apple's strategic acquisition in the AI space to SpaceX's ambitious Stars ... Show More
4m 27s
Apr 2022
#92 - OpenAI’s DALL-E 2, Google’s PaLM, AI Intel in Ukraine, Hugging Robots
Our 92nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Outline: (0:00) Intro Research & Advancements (01:15) OpenAI's new DALL.E model turns your words into pieces of art (5:45) Pathways Language Model (PaLM): Scaling to 540 Billion Parameters for Breakthrough ... Show More
36m 49s
Jul 2021
AI for Shaming Politicians, the New AI Art Scene, DeepFake Phishing
Our 64th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news This week: This AI publicly shames politicians, but don’t laugh just yet AI-Generated Art Scene Explodes as Hackers Create Groundbreaking New Tools What A Long, Strange Trip It's Been: EleutherAI One Year R ... Show More
25m 10s
Oct 2022
#109 - Tesla Bot, Text-to-Video, Speech-to-Text, AI Voices Darth Vader
Our 109th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! If you are a fan, we'd appreciate your feedback on Apple Podcast, or just via email to contact@lastweekin.ai - feel free to DM us on Twitter too! Outline: (00:00) Intro (03:08) Elon Musk shows off humanoi ... Show More
46m 54s
Jun 2023
#125 - Nvidia tools for game devs, TikTok’s Tako, PandaGPT and Gorilla, Voyager, early warning system for AI risks
Our 125th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai Timestamps: (00:00) Intro / Banter (02:33) Response to liste ... Show More
1h 36m
Oct 2020
GPT-3 on reddit, Facial Recognition in Argentina, Stats on Big Tech Financing Academics
Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week A GPT-3 bot posted comments on Reddit for a week and no one noticed , Live facial recognition is tracking kids suspected of being criminals, Many Top AI Researchers Get Financial Backing From B ... Show More
22m 2s
This Week in Machine Learning & AI brings you the week’s most interesting and important stories from the world of machine learning and artificial intelligence. This week we look at Apple’s acquisition of machine learning startup Turi, DARPA’s autonomous hacker-bot challenge, and Comma.ai’s autonomous driving dataset. Plus, of course, tons more. Show notes fo ... Show More
