#94 - AI Driving Instructors, MASSIVE Speech Dataset, AI ’Show Stealers’, Tesla Jet Crash

Our 94th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Warning: some curse words are used in this episode towards the end

Outline:

• (00:00) Intro
• (2:10) GM Patents Autonomous Tech to Train New Drivers Sans Instructor
• (6:22) Startups Join AI Acquisition Rush
• (13:20) UC Berkeley & Intel’s Photorealistic Denoising Method Boosts Video Quality on Moonless Nights
• (17:00) Amazon opens MASSIVE AI speech dataset so Alexa can speak your language
• (21:40) Ad break
• (23:20) South Africa’s private surveillance machine is fueling a digital apartheid
• (29:15) Actors launch campaign against AI 'show stealers'
• (37:13) This AI clone of Reddit’s Am I The Asshole forum will give you the best bad advice 
• (40:26) A Tesla vehicle using ‘Smart Summon’ appears to crash into a $3.5 million private jet 
• (45:00) Outro