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Today’s show:
Convai CEO Purnendu Mukherjee joins Jason to discuss creating AI-powered NPCs using Convai (6:05), the birth of generative AI (22:17), open-source vs. closed AI (36:01), and much more!
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Time stamps:
(0:00) Convai CEO Purnendu Mukherjee joins Jason
(3:54) The motivation behind Convai
(6:05) Purnendu breaks down creating an NPC character using Convai
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(11:36) Demo of character creation using Convai's unique toolset
(17:18) Integrating AI Characters into Game Worlds with Convai
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(22:17) Convai’s business model and the issue game developers have with moving from flat rate to usage-based charges
(25:00) Purnendu reflects on his time at Nvidia
(29:57) The birth of the generative AI boom
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(36:01) Navigating the Future: AI Regulation & open-source vs. closed AI
(40:11) The countdown to self-creating AI
(43:13) Purnendu breaks down data collected for AI and the uses for an AI-enabled Amazon Mechanical Turk
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