AI for lonely people, GPT-3 is toxic, Tesla investigation develops, Kiwibot

2021-09-11

Our 71st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: Applications Always there': the AI chatbot comforting China's lonely millions AI startups claim to detect depression from speech, but the jury’s out on their accuracy Research GPT-3 mimics human love for ‘offensive’ Reddit comments, study finds AI Researchers Introduce A Graph Neural Network Estimator for ETA Prediction at Google Maps Ethics Tesla is ordered to turn over A...

Our 71st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

This week:

Applications
- Always there': the AI chatbot comforting China's lonely millions
- AI startups claim to detect depression from speech, but the jury’s out on their accuracy
Research
- GPT-3 mimics human love for ‘offensive’ Reddit comments, study finds
- AI Researchers Introduce A Graph Neural Network Estimator for ETA Prediction at Google Maps
Ethics
- Tesla is ordered to turn over Autopilot data to a federal safety agency.
- Bias persists in face detection systems from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google
Fun
- The time a human-driven car ran over an autonomous robot
- These cute electric robots may soon deliver your dinner