Robots at Google Offices, AI-Powered Writing, AI Polygraph, AI Art

Our 79th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Feel free to email us your thoughts or feedback at [email protected] Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Check our text version of this news roundup over at lastweekin.ai. Outline: (00:00) Intro(01:10) Alphabet is putting its prototype robots to work cleaning up around Google’s offices(04:42) Grammarly raises $200M at a $13B valuation to make you an even better writer using AI  / AI-powered writing assistant Writer nabs $21M(07:03) A Leap Forward in Computer Vision: Facebook AI Says Masked Autoencoders Are Scalable Vision Learners(09:27) Research Professor Adji Bousso Dieng Is Out to Change the World With AI(11:42) A Utah company says it’s revolutionized truth-telling technology. Experts are highly skeptical(13:45) South Korea is Selling Millions of Photos To Facial Recognition Researchers(16:00) AWS makes AI and machine learning tangible with first major art debut at Smithsonian(19:00) ‘Paint Me a Picture’: NVIDIA Research Shows GauGAN AI Art Demo Now Responds to Words(21:45) OutroMusic: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)