#125 - Nvidia tools for game devs, TikTok’s Tako, PandaGPT and Gorilla, Voyager, early warning system for AI risks
Last Week in AI
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Our 125th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Intro / Banter
(02:33) Response to listener comments / corrections
(05:30) News Preview
Tools & Apps (06:21) A.I. May Help Design Your Favorite Video Game Character)
(12:16) Watch this Nvidia demo and imagine actually speaking to AI game characters) + Nvidia unveils Avatar Cloud Engine for Games at Computex)
(15:27) JPMorgan is developing a ChatGPT-like A.I. service that gives investment advice)
(16:40) TikTok is testing an AI chatbot called Tako)
(18:32) Zoo, a playground for text to image models)
Applications & Business (20:10) Insights from American Workers: A Comprehensive Survey on AI in the Workplace)
(24:29) The A.I. chip boom is pushing Nvidia toward $1 trillion, but it won't help Intel and AMD)
(29:12) Hoffman and Suleyman's AI startup Inflection launches ChatGPT-like chatbot)
(31:31) Eating Disorder Helpline Fires Staff, Transitions to Chatbot After Unionization)
(33:51) AI startup Figure raises $70 million to build humanoid robots)
Projects & Open Source (35:21) PandaGPT: One Model to Instruction-Follow Them All)
(41:50) Uncensored Models)
(47:30) Guanaco)
(50:50) 🦍 Gorilla: Large Language Model Connected with Massive APIs)
(52:17) BLOOMChat: a New Open Multilingual Chat LLM)
(53:27) GirlfriendGPT - Your personal AI companion)
Research & Advancements (55:45) Voyager: An Open-Ended Embodied Agent with Large Language Models)
(01:02:55) A Pretrainer's Guide to Training Data: Measuring the Effects of Data Age, Domain Coverage, Quality, & Toxicity)
(01:07:33) RWKV: Reinventing RNNs for the Transformer Era)
(01:09:35) Enabling Large Language Models to Generate Text with Citations)
(01:11:12) Training Diffusion Models with Reinforcement Learning)
Policy & Safety
(01:14:43) PM meeting with leading CEOs in AI: 24 May 2023)
(01:18:05) An early warning system for novel AI risks)
[3 min] Lighting Round (01:22:07) How Rogue AIs may Arise)
(01:24:30) Democratic Inputs to AI)
(01:26:20) Top AI researchers and CEOs warn against ‘risk of extinction’ in 22-word statement)
(01:29:30) Why an Octopus-like Creature Has Come to Symbolize the State of A.I.)
Synthetic Media & Art
(01:31:48) Grimes Invited Anyone to Make A.I. Grimes Songs. Here Are Her Reviews.) + I used Grimes’ AI vocals to make a hit – here’s how I did it)
(01:34:27) As a lifelong Beatles fan, this AI-generated Beatles music is blowing my mind)
(01:36:00) Outro