#104 - Cruise Outages, Robots for Forestry, BigScience’s BLOOM, EU AI Act

Our 104th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Note: there was a delay in editing, so this news is from two weeks ago. If you are a fan, we'd appreciate your feedback on Apple Podcast, or just via email to [email protected] - feel free to DM us on Twitter too! Outline: (00:00) Intro (01:10) Cruise’s Robot Car Outages Are Jamming Up San Francisco (05:00) Japan's forestry industry tests robots to address labor shortage (07:12) FIFA will track players’ bodies using AI to make offside calls at 2022 World Cup  (08:30) Words matter: AI can predict salaries based on the text of online job postings   (09:12) Photographer Successfully Uses Dall-E 2 AI to Edit his Photos  (09:10) Google engineer identifies anonymous faces in WWII photos with AI facial recognition  (10:00)Google AI Introduces Minerva: A Natural Language Processing (NLP) Model That Solves Mathematical Questions (13:16) A year in the making, BigScience’s AI language model is finally available (15:55) Meta open sources early-stage AI translation tool that works across 200 languages  (16:18) Computer scientists' interactive program aids motion planning for environments with obstacles  (16:48)Microsoft AI Researchers Open-Source ‘GODEL’: A Large Scale Pre-Trained Language Model For Dialog  (17:35) Fake Friends and the Real Threat of AI-Generated Influencers (22:05) The Fight Over Which Uses of AI Europe Should Outlaw (25:10) Waymo, UPS, others pressure Gov. Newsom to allow autonomous trucking in California  (26:10) More and more CS students are interested in AI – and there aren't enough lecturers  (27:03) US safety regulators open special investigation into Cruise AV crash  (27:46) People who regularly talk to AI chatbots often start to believe they're sentient, says CEO  (29:10) Experiments & Explorations: Robots as Musical Instruments (31:17) Cute desktop robot designed to keep armchair engineers engaged (33:33) Outro