Advancements in AI and Their Societal Implications

Our 60th Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! On this episode, new ways to scale training, a take on RL being enough, care bots, creepy fake humans, AI for AI chips, City Brains in China, and cheaper robot dogs.

This week:

• Microsoft’s ZeRO-Infinity Library Claims to Train 32 trillion Parameters Deep Learning Models On A Cluster of Just 32 GPUs

• DeepMind scientists: Reinforcement learning is enough for general AI

• ‘Care bots’ are on the rise and replacing human caregivers

• These creepy fake humans herald a new age in AI

• Google is using AI to design its next generation of AI chips more quickly than humans can

• Across China, AI ‘city brains’ are changing how the government runs

• This $2,700 robot dog will carry a single bottle of water for you

Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/120

Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)