#108 - Undiagnosable Cancers, Robot Sales, Decoding Brain Activity, AI Music

Our 108th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Outline

• (00:00) Intro

• (03:50) Using machine learning to identify undiagnosable cancers •

• (08:30) North American companies send in the robots, even as productivity slumps •

• (14:30) French tax officials use AI to spot 20,000 undeclared pools • (15:12) AI illuminates permanently shadowed regions on the moon • (15:40) Artificial intelligence can be used to better monitor Maine's forests •

• (16:34) Panera Bread tests artificial intelligence technology in drive-thru lanes •

• (17:45) Using AI to decode speech from brain activity • (23:20) Robots can be used to assess children’s mental wellbeing, study suggests • (27:50) Canadian researchers using machine learning to mitigate effects of climate change •

• (29:25) Researchers Develop ‘TiCoder’ Framework For Code Generation Using User Feedback With 90.4% Consistency To User Intent •

• (31:12) Artificial Intelligence Improves Treatment in Women with Heart Attacks •

• (31:41) MIT Researchers use Machine Learning to Expedite Research on New Battery Materials •

• (32:48) Review finds ‘paucity of robust evidence’ on impact of AI clinical outcomes •

• (36:00) France puts healthcare at heart of $1.8B AI strategy •

• (39:00) Clearview: Glasses With Facial Recognition Are Here—And The Air Force Is Buying • (40:00) New York City AI Bias Law Charts New Territory for Employers •

• (40:37) U.S. officials order Nvidia to halt sales of top AI chips to China • (42:00) UK Government Releases New AI Security Guidance • (43:31) Everything Everything's AI-Derived 'Raw Data Feel' Tackles Mental Health, Conspiracy TheoriesEverything Everything - I Want A Love Like This •

• (47:05) Holly Herndon: How AI can transform your voice • Holly Herndon - Eternal •

• (50:17) A LinkedIn Marketing Agency Acquired an AI That Writes Mega-Cringe LinkedIn Posts • (53:24) An AI-Generated Artwork Won First Place at a State Fair Fine Arts Competition, and Artists Are Pissed • (57:00) Outro