Last Week in AI artwork

AI‘s replication crisis, reddit discussions, government-sponsored medical AI

Last Week in AI

English - November 19, 2020 07:55 - 10 minutes - 14.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
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Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

This week:


AI is wrestling with a replication crisis
The US Government Will Pay Doctors to Use These AI Algorithms

An ICLR submission is given a Clear Rejection (Score: 3) rating because the benchmark it proposed requires MuJoCo, a commercial software package, thus making RL research less accessible for underrepresented groups. What do you think?

How do you find the motivation to keep doing ML?

Is there a ML community "blind eye" toward the negative impact of FAANG recommendation algorithms on global society?

0:00 - 1:00 Intro
1:00 - 5:00 News Summary segment
5:00 News Discussion segment


Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/last-week-in-ai-91

Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)