Last Week in AI

As a computer hardware designer using AI to accelerate my design process I have been a consistent listener for the last two years. Always insightful and interesting it allows me to stay up to date without spending huge amounts of time reviewing all the literature. As an aside there is another podcast the was called “ Last Week in AI Now” and now seems to also be called “Last Week in AI”. Nowhere near as good. If I use Siri to listen about half the time it brings up the wrong one. This is obviously a rip off and if there is anything you could do, I’d do it.

Truly excellent show thank you very much for all your effort. Two suggestions. One, please do the timely text article edition on your website because if anyone wants to follow the links, it needs to be done immediately while listening to the show and your text article on your website very often lag munch behind. Two, please do more research and projects. This is the most interesting thing.

Funny story, my wife (a CPA) and I just listened to your podcast for 22 hours (broken up into 2 days) while driving out and back to Indiana for Thanksgiving (past episodes I missed). I was actually a bit saddened when the drive was over when we got back home. You two really are perfectly matched and make the show entertaining as well as informative. Keep up the great work!

Excellent podcast on the latest news. I’m in the industry side and have used ML for a long time in the non-IT sector (industrial and manufacturing). I’ve actually read papers that I first heard from here in this podcast. Doomerism is not my perspective but still really good knowing what are the new developments there. Maybe a quick mention on how erring on the side of caution can lead to negative outcomes? Kind of analogous to greenpeace and anti gmo groups opposing golden rice and that may have caused an additional 250,000 blind kids from vitamin A deficiency. Should we make the doomers pay into a liability fund just in case they prevented faster solving of existing problems? Obviously also thinking of the opposite possible doomsday case (if you think that’s a greater than 1% possibility).