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

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. •

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• 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

Release date

Lydbog: 6. juni 2023