S5:E5 - DeepMind’s XLand, Android 12 Beta's Camera Switches, a Colorism Issue With Face Filters, and a Senior’s Robot Companion

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English - August 19, 2021 04:59 - 45 minutes - 41.2 MB
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In this episode, we talk about social media face filters perpetuating colorism, and about a new companion robot for the elderly. Then we talk about DeepMind’s new exciting AI training tool, XLand, with Max Jaderberg, senior staff research scientist at DeepMind. And then we speak with Suzanne Aitchison, software engineer and accessibility specialist here at Forem, about Android 12 beta’s “Camera Switches,” which lets users control their phone with facial expressions.

Show Notes DevDiscuss (sponsor) CodeNewbie (sponsor) Avalanche (sponsor) How Digital Beauty Filters Perpetuate Colorism What beta testing a robot at age 81 taught me about friendship Open-Ended Learning Leads to Generally Capable Agents Android’s latest accessibility feature lets you control your phone with facial expressions

Max Jaderberg is a researcher at DeepMind leading the Open-Ended Learning team, driving the intersection of deep learning, reinforcement learning, and multi-agent systems. His recent work includes creating the first agent to beat human professionals at StarCraft II, and creating algorithms for training teams of agents to play with humans in first-person video games.

Suzanne Aitchison

Suzanne Aitchison is a software engineer at Forem. She is passionate about accessibility and maintains a tutorials site for accessible web development (particularly with reference to React).