#94 - AI Driving Instructors, MASSIVE Speech Dataset, AI ’Show Stealers’, Tesla Jet Crash
Our 94th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Sponsor: This episode is sponsored by Zencastr, our go-to tool for recording the podcast. It is super easy to use, and there is nothing to download. Go to http://zen.ai/lastweekinai and get 30% off your first three months with a PRO account! Warning: some curse words are used in this episode towards the end Outline: (00:00) Intro (2:10) GM Patents Autonomous Tech to Train New Drivers Sans Instructor (6:22) Startups Join AI Acquisition Rush (13:20) UC Berkeley & Intel’s Photorealistic Denoising Method Boosts Video Quality on Moonless Nights (17:00) Amazon opens MASSIVE AI speech dataset so Alexa can speak your language (21:40) Ad break (23:20) South Africa’s private surveillance machine is fueling a digital apartheid (29:15) Actors launch campaign against AI 'show stealers' (37:13) This AI clone of Reddit’s Am I The Asshole forum will give you the best bad advice (40:26) A Tesla vehicle using ‘Smart Summon’ appears to crash into a $3.5 million private jet (45:00) Outro