#109 - Tesla Bot, Text-to-Video, Speech-to-Text, AI Voices Darth Vader
Description
Our 109th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Outline:
(00:00 ) Intro
(03:08 ) Elon Musk shows off humanoid robot prototype at Tesla AI Day
(07:15 ) It’s not just floods and fires: This AI forecasts how climate change will impact your city
(10:00 ) Artificial Intelligence Spending Grew 20.7% Worldwide in 2021, According to IDC
(10:52 ) Tesla is being sued over Autopilot and Elon Musk’s Full Self-Driving predictions
(11:50 ) Uber Eats and Nuro sign a 10-year deal to do robot food delivery in California and Texas
(13:00 ) Announcing the PyTorch Foundation: A new era for the cutting-edge AI framework
(13:45 ) Meta’s new text-to-video AI generator is like DALL-E for video , Google answers Meta’s video-generating AI with its own, dubbed Imagen Video
(19:05 ) OpenAI open-sources Whisper, a multilingual speech recognition system
(23:00 ) Can eyes on self-driving cars reduce accidents? Cues from moving eyes could help pedestrians anticipate vehicle's intentions
(24:00 ) Why DeepMind Is Sending AI Humanoids to Soccer Camp
(25:00 ) How Transformers Seem to Mimic Parts of the Brain
(25:30 ) NVIDIA's new AI model quickly generates objects and characters for virtual worlds
(26:45 ) Clearview AI, Used by Police to Find Criminals, Now in Public Defenders’ Hands , House Democrats debut new bill to limit US police use of facial recognition
(30:30 ) Artist receives first known US copyright registration for generative AI art
(33:14 ) Getty Images bans AI-generated content over fears of legal challenges
(34:00 ) A.I. Is Making It Easier Than Ever for Students to Cheat
(34:50 ) There’s no Tiananmen Square in the new Chinese image-making AI
(35:45 ) US to invest $50 billion in spring 2023 as it looks to counter Chinese chip development
(36:25 ) Darth Vader’s Voice Emanated From War-Torn Ukraine
(39:40 ) I Resurrected "Ugly Sonic" with Stable Diffusion Textual Inversion
(43:00 ) Artist uses AI to extract color palettes from text descriptions
(43:55 ) Hellblade developer Ninja Theory confirms it won’t replace voice actors with AI
(45:35 ) Outro