AI for Mathematicians, Timnit Gebru‘s New Research Center, No Ban on Killer Robots, Vertigo AI

<p>Our 80th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!</p> <p>Feel free to email us your thoughts or feedback at <a href='mailto:contact@lastweekinai.com'>contact@lastweekinai.com</a></p> <p>Subscribe: <a href='https://feed.podbean.com/aitalk/feed.xml'>RSS</a> | <a href='https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lets-talk-ai/id1502782720'>iTunes</a> | <a href='https://open.spotify.com/show/17HiNdxcoKJLLNibIAyUch'>Spotify</a> | <a href='https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKARTq-t5SPMzwtft8FWwnA'>YouTube</a></p> <p>Check our text version of this news roundup over at <a href='https://lastweekin.ai/'>lastweekin.ai.</a></p> <p>Outline:</p> <p>(01:10) <a href='https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/30/22807568/procedural-storytelling-video-games-dwarf-fortress-wildermyth-blaseball'>Procedural storytelling is exploding the possibilities of video game narratives</a>  (04:16) <a href='https://gamerant.com/twitch-machine-learning-detect-suspicious-users/'>Twitch Introduces Machine Learning Feature to Detect Suspicious Users</a> (07:28) <a href='https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03593-1'>DeepMind’s AI helps untangle the mathematics of knots</a> (11:06) <a href='https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2021/11/28/yale-researchers-combat-biases-in-machine-learning-algorithms/'>Yale researchers combat biases in machine learning algorithms</a> (13:40) <a href='https://www.wired.com/story/ex-googler-timnit-gebru-starts-ai-research-center/'>Ex-Googler Timnit Gebru Starts Her Own AI Research Center</a> (17:20) <a href='https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/02/us-rejects-calls-regulating-banning-killer-robots'>US rejects calls for regulating or banning ‘killer robots</a> (19:50) <a href='https://aeon.co/videos/who-exactly-authored-this-ai-generated-spin-on-alfred-hitchcocks-vertigo'>Who, exactly, authored this AI-generated spin on Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo?</a>  (25:00) Outro</p> <p>Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)</p>