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Super Data Science: ML & AI Podcast with Jon Krohn

799: AGI Could Be Near: Dystopian and Utopian Implications, with Dr. Andrey Kurenkov

Jul 9, 2024
01:45:48

No-code games with GenAI, the creative possibilities of LLMs, and our proximity to AGI: In this episode, Jon Krohn talks to Andrey Kurenkov about what turned him from an AGI skeptic to a positivist. You’ll also hear about his wildly popular podcast “Last Week in AI” and how the NVIDIA-backed startup Astrocade is helping videogame enthusiasts to create their own games through generative AI. A must-listen!


This episode is brought to you by AWS Inferentia and AWS Trainium. Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information.


In this episode you will learn:

• All about The Gradient and Last Week in AI [10:42]

• All about Astrocade and Andrey’s role at the startup [24:35]

• Balancing UX and creative control at Astrocade [42:00]

• The creative possibilities of LLMs [1:04:15]

• The rapid emergence of AGI [1:10:31]


Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/799

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