In this week’s curation: a future with deep fakes, medical diagnosis hits the road, AI learns to write code that’s useful, better 3D photos, AI struggles to help fight COVID-19, questioning AI ethics when it comes to life-and-death decisions, fighting poverty in Africa, and a Zen Buddhist monk chimes in on democratizing AI.

Plus: A tutorial on how to initialize a neural network.

All sources from this issue published between May 16, 2020 and May 28, 2020, except the tutorial.

Forbes article about deep fakes and the questionable future of truth. (Forbes, 5/25/2020)

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A push toward open ai and mobile medical diagnosis (Emerj, 5/17/2020)

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AI generates Python code (Microsoft, 5/20/2020)

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Creating better 3D photos with AI (Venture Beat, 5/27/2020)

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AI struggles to help in the fight against COVID-19 (Science Business, 05/28/2020)

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AI isn’t fit for life-or-death decisions (The Guardian, 5/16/2020)

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AI helps fight poverty in Africa (Stanford University, 5/22/2020)

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A Zen Buddhist Monk’s Approach to Democratizing AI (Stanford University HAI, 5/28/2020)

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Education:

Tutorial on how to initialize a neural network (deep learning.ai, 2019)