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

Our 80th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Feel free to email us your thoughts or feedback at [email protected] Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Check our text version of this news roundup over at lastweekin.ai. Outline: (01:10) Procedural storytelling is exploding the possibilities of video game narratives (04:16) Twitch Introduces Machine Learning Feature to Detect Suspicious Users(07:28) DeepMind’s AI helps untangle the mathematics of knots(11:06) Yale researchers combat biases in machine learning algorithms(13:40) Ex-Googler Timnit Gebru Starts Her Own AI Research Center(17:20) US rejects calls for regulating or banning ‘killer robots(19:50) Who, exactly, authored this AI-generated spin on Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo?  (25:00) Outro Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)