AI Driving Instructors, MASSIVE Speech Dataset, AI ’Show Stealers’, Tesla Jet Crash

<p>Our 94th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!</p> <p>Warning: some curse words are used in this episode towards the end</p> <p>Outline:</p> <ul><li style="font-weight:400;">(00:00) Intro</li> <li style="font-weight:400;">(2:10) <a href='https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a39753485/general-motors-patent-autonomous-teach-student-drivers/'>GM Patents Autonomous Tech to Train New Drivers Sans Instructor</a></li> <li style="font-weight:400;">(6:22) <a href='https://www.wsj.com/articles/startups-join-ai-acquisition-rush-11649669401'>Startups Join AI Acquisition Rush</a></li> <li style="font-weight:400;">(13:20) <a href='https://medium.com/syncedreview/uc-berkeley-intels-photorealistic-denoising-method-boosts-video-quality-on-moonless-nights-ec51cf3f43c9'>UC Berkeley & Intel’s Photorealistic Denoising Method Boosts Video Quality on Moonless Nights</a></li> <li style="font-weight:400;">(17:00) <a href='https://www.theregister.com/2022/04/20/amazon_ai_speech/'>Amazon opens MASSIVE AI speech dataset so Alexa can speak your language</a></li> <li style="font-weight:400;">(21:40) Ad break</li> <li style="font-weight:400;">(23:20) <a href='https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/19/1049996/south-africa-ai-surveillance-digital-apartheid/'>South Africa’s private surveillance machine is fueling a digital apartheid</a></li> <li style="font-weight:400;">(29:15) <a href='https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-61166272'>Actors launch campaign against AI 'show stealers'</a></li> <li style="font-weight:400;">(37:13) <a href='https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/20/23033694/are-you-the-asshole-ai-reddit-clone-art-project-ethics-aita'>This AI clone of Reddit’s Am I The Asshole forum will give you the best bad advice</a> </li> <li style="font-weight:400;">(40:26) <a href='https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/22/23037654/tesla-crash-private-jet-reddit-video-smart-summon'>A Tesla vehicle using ‘Smart Summon’ appears to crash into a $3.5 million private jet</a> </li> <li style="font-weight:400;">(45:00) Outro</li> </ul>