Tech Evolution and AI's Role in Gaming

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