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

Our 78th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Check our text version of this news roundup over at lastweekin.ai. 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)