To PhD or not to PhD, AI Bias, Facial Recognition Ethics, GPT-3

<p class="post-info">Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!</p> <p>This week:</p> <ul><li> <ul><li><a href='https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/k28qgr/d_why_you_shouldnt_get_your_phd/'>Why you shouldn’t get your Ph.D.</a></li> </ul> <ul><li><a href='https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/k2pd9n/d_why_you_should_get_your_phd/'>Why you should get your PhD</a></li> </ul> </li> <li>    <a href='https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/22/science/artificial-intelligence-robots-racism-police.html'>Can We Make Our Robots Less Biased Than We Are?     </a><a href='https://www.brookings.edu/research/how-ai-bots-and-voice-assistants-reinforce-gender-bias/'>How AI bots and voice assistants reinforce gender bias     </a><a href='https://venturebeat.com/2020/11/23/training-ai-algorithms-on-mostly-smiling-faces-reduces-accuracy-and-introduces-bias-according-to-research/'>Training AI algorithms on mostly smiling faces reduces accuracy and introduces bias, according to research</a></li> <li> <p><a href='https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03256-7'>Facial-recognition research needs an ethical reckoning</a></p> </li> <li> <p><a href='https://muellerberndt.medium.com/i-asked-gpt-3-for-the-question-to-42-i-didnt-like-its-answer-and-neither-will-you-33f425a4d60f'>I asked GPT-3 for the question to “42”. I didn’t like its answer and neither will you.</a></p> <p><a href='https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/24/science/artificial-intelligence-ai-gpt3.html'>Meet GPT-3. It Has Learned to Code (and Blog and Argue).</a></p> </li> </ul> <p>0:00 - 0:40 Intro 0:40 - 5:00 News Summary segment 5:00 News Discussion segment</p> <p>Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/93</p> <p>Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)</p>