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

<p>Our 79th 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>(00:00) Intro (01:10) <a href='https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/19/22791267/alphabet-google-everyday-robot-project-cleaning-office-prototype'>Alphabet is putting its prototype robots to work cleaning up around Google’s offices</a> (04:42) <a href='https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/17/grammarly-raises-200m-at-a-13b-valuation-to-make-you-an-even-better-writer-through-ai/'>Grammarly raises $200M at a $13B valuation to make you an even better writer using AI</a>  / <a href='https://venturebeat.com/2021/11/15/ai-powered-writing-assistant-writer-nabs-21m/'>AI-powered writing assistant Writer nabs $21M</a> (07:03) <a href='https://syncedreview.com/2021/11/15/deepmind-podracer-tpu-based-rl-frameworks-deliver-exceptional-performance-at-low-cost-144/'>A Leap Forward in Computer Vision: Facebook AI Says Masked Autoencoders Are Scalable Vision Learners</a> (09:27) <a href='https://paw.princeton.edu/article/professor-adji-bousso-dieng-out-change-world-ai'>Research Professor Adji Bousso Dieng Is Out to Change the World With AI</a> (11:42) <a href='https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/11/15/lie-detector-eye-movements-converus/'>A Utah company says it’s revolutionized truth-telling technology. Experts are highly skeptical</a> (13:45) <a href='https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgdxqd/south-korea-is-selling-millions-of-photos-to-facial-recognition-researchers'>South Kore