Record High AI Funding, AfriBERTa, Facial Recognition in the West Bank, Tesla FSD Beta Crash, AI for Stressed Dogs

Last Week in AI

Our 78th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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This week:

(00:00) Intro
(01:40) Walmart is using fully driverless trucks to ramp up its online grocery business
(05:20) AI startup funding hits record high of $17.9B in Q3 / Robot orders by companies surge as labor shortages linger
(09:50) University of Waterloo AI Researchers Introduce A New NLP Model ‘AfriBERTa’ For African Languages Using Deep Learning Techniques
(12:40) AI skin cancer diagnoses risk being less accurate for dark skin – study
(16:55) Israel escalates surveillance of Palestinians with facial recognition program in West Bank
(22:15) Tesla vehicle in ‘Full Self-Driving’ beta mode ‘severely damaged’ after crash in California
(26:15) CMU opens first AI maker space to let students 'sharpen the cutting edge of AI'
(28:25) Machine Learning Shushes Stressed Dogs
(31:05) Outro

Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)