Last Week in AI

#125 - Nvidia tools for game devs, TikTok’s Tako, PandaGPT and Gorilla, Voyager, early warning system for AI risks

Jun 6, 2023

The podcast dives into the latest AI innovations reshaping gaming, like Nvidia's Avatar Cloud Engine. TikTok’s new AI chatbot, Tako, aims to personalize user experiences. It discusses worker attitudes towards AI, highlighting job security concerns and shifts in workplace dynamics. Innovations like PandaGPT are examined for their potential to reach Artificial General Intelligence. The conversation wraps with insights on AI risks and the cultural implications of AI's rapid evolution, including new developments in AI music creation.

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AI-generated music and the importance of regulation

The Importance of External Audits and Structured Access for Safe AI Systems

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The Role of Reinforcement Learning in Deep Learning Frameworks

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Intro

2min

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Tech Evolution and AI's Role in Gaming

14min

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Exploring AI Integration in TikTok and Text-to-Image Model Comparisons

3min

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AI in the Workplace: Insights and Transformations

15min

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Innovations in AI: Multi-Modal Convergence

20min

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Voyager: Pioneering AI in Minecraft

11min

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Exploring Hybrid AI Architectures: RNNs Meet Transformers

3min

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Advancements in Language Models and Citation Accuracy

2min

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Navigating AI Risks and Innovations

20min

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AI in Music: Creation and Controversy

5min

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
Applications & Business
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

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