AI Best Friends, The Beatles + Machine Learning, Crime Prediction Bias, Transformer Quadraped Robot

<p>Our 81th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!</p> <p>Outline:</p> <ul><li>(0:00) Intro</li> <li style="font-weight:400;">(1:30) <a href='https://fortune.com/2021/12/10/emotive-ai-companion-friend-metaverse-robots-technology-design-artificial-intelligence/'>Meet your new A.I. best friend</a></li> <li style="font-weight:400;">(6:37) <a href='https://www.slashfilm.com/677857/the-beatles-get-back-used-high-tech-machine-learning-to-restore-the-audio/'>The Beatles: Get Back Used High-Tech Machine Learning To Restore The Audio</a></li> <li style="font-weight:400;">(10:26) <a href='https://syncedreview.com/2021/11/30/deepmind-podracer-tpu-based-rl-frameworks-deliver-exceptional-performance-at-low-cost-155/'>Google, Cambridge U & Alan Turing Institute Propose PolyViT: A Universal Transformer for Image, Video, and Audio Classification</a></li> <li style="font-weight:400;">(14:00) <a href='https://phys.org/news/2021-12-deep-learning-extreme-weather.html'>Deep-learning model speeds extreme weather predictions</a></li> <li style="font-weight:400;">(18:23) <a href='https://themarkup.org/show-your-work/2021/12/02/how-we-determined-crime-prediction-software-disproportionately-targeted-low-income-black-and-latino-neighborhoods'>How We Determined Crime Prediction Software Disproportionately Targeted Low-Income, Black, and Latino Neighborhoods</a></li> <li style="font-weight:400;">(23:44) <a href='https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/06/technology/tesla-autopilot-elon-musk.html'>Inside Tesla as Elon Musk Pushed an Unflinching Vision for Self-Driving Cars</a> </li> <li style="font-weight:400;">(27:18) <a href='https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-12-11/is-teslas-full-self-driving-public-experiment-safe-legislators-want-answers-from-dmv'>Alarmed by Tesla’s public self-driving test, state legislators demand answers from DMV</a> </li> <li style="font-weight:400;">(30:15) <a href='https://spectrum.ieee.org/delivery-robot-anymal'>A ​Quadruped Humanoid Robot Might Be Able To Do It All</a></li>