Machine Learning with Jordan Harrod | SciShow Tangents Podcast

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We do a lot of learning on Tangents, so naturally, we've got questions about what learning looks like...for machines! AI and machine learning science communicator Jordan Harrod (https://www.youtube.com/@jordanharrod) lends her expertise to this episode as we definitely for sure learn all there is to know and will ever need to be known about machine learning, algorithms, and AI. Definitely we got all of it, everyone.

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[Truth or Fail Express]

Racoon-inspired algorithm

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8552661

Dolphin-inspired algorithm

Pelican-inspired algorithm

[Trivia Question]

Using machine learning to measure plant vibration and sounds when they experience stress

https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(23)00262-3

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/plants-make-noises-when-stressed-study-finds-180981920/

[Fact Off]

Lenna (an image of a Playboy model) used as the standard for digital image processing

https://www.404media.co/lena-test-image-ieee-policy/

Tricking speech recognition systems with “neural voice camouflage”

https://www.engineering.columbia.edu/news/block-smartphone-microphone-speech-recognition-spying

https://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/16.pdf

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2112.07076.pdf

https://www.vox.com/2018/7/20/17594074/phone-spying-wiretap-microphone-smartphone-northeastern-dave-choffnes-christo-wilson-kara-swisher

https://gizmodo.com/these-academics-spent-the-last-year-testing-whether-you-1826961188

[Ask the Science Couch]

AI image generator mistakes (hands, feet, teeth) and how they work (diffusion models)

https://www.sciencefocus.com/future-technology/why-ai-generated-hands-are-the-stuff-of-nightmares-explained-by-a-scientist

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pranavdixit/ai-generated-art-hands-fingers-messed-up

https://hai.stanford.edu/news/what-dall-e-reveals-about-human-creativity

https://proceedings.mlr.press/v37/sohl-dickstein15.pdf

[Butt One More Thing]

Training machine learning models (convolutional neural networks) to classify poop images

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1903.10578.pdf

https://journals.lww.com/ajg/abstract/2022/07000/a_smartphone_application_using_artificial.24.aspx

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33275399/

Anal Recognition Paper

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41551-020-0534-9

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