AI for lonely people, GPT-3 is toxic, Tesla investigation develops, Kiwibot

<p>Our 71st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!</p> <p>This week:</p> <ul><li style="font-weight:400;">Applications <ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><a href='https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210824-always-there-the-ai-chatbot-comforting-china-s-lonely-millions'>Always there': the AI chatbot comforting China's lonely millions</a></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><a href='https://venturebeat.com/2021/08/31/ai-startups-claim-to-detect-depression-from-speech-but-the-jurys-out-on-their-accuracy/'>AI startups claim to detect depression from speech, but the jury’s out on their accuracy</a></li> </ul> </li> <li style="font-weight:400;">Research <ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><a href='https://thenextweb.com/news/gpt-3-and-humans-twice-as-likely-agree-with-offensive-reddit-comments-chatbots'>GPT-3 mimics human love for ‘offensive’ Reddit comments, study finds</a> </li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><a href='https://www.marktechpost.com/2021/09/03/ai-researchers-introduce-a-graph-neural-network-estimator-for-eta-prediction-at-google-maps/'>AI Researchers Introduce A Graph Neural Network Estimator for ETA Prediction at Google Maps</a></li> </ul> </li> <li style="font-weight:400;">Ethics <ul><li style="font-weight:400;">T<a href='https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/01/business/tesla-autopilot-investigation.html'>esla is ordered to turn over Autopilot data to a federal safety agency.</a></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><a href='https://venturebeat.com/2021/09/03/bias-persists-in-face-detection-systems-from-amazon-microsoft-and-google/'>Bias persists in face detection systems from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google</a></li> </ul> </li> <li style="font-weight:400;">Fun <ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><a href='https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/1/22652980/starship-delivery-robot-kentucky-car-accident'>The time a human-driven car ran over an autonomous robot</a> </li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><a href='https://electrek.co/2021/09/02/these-cute-electric-robots-may-soon-deliver-your-dinne