DeepMind on General AI, Creepy Fake Humans, City Brains

Our 60th Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! On this episode, new ways to scale training, a take on RL being enough, care bots, creepy fake humans, AI for AI chips, City Brains in China, and cheaper robot dogs.

This week:

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Microsoft’s ZeRO-Infinity Library Claims to Train 32 trillion Parameters Deep Learning Models On A Cluster of Just 32 GPUs •

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DeepMind scientists: Reinforcement learning is enough for general AI •

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‘Care bots’ are on the rise and replacing human caregivers •

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These creepy fake humans herald a new age in AI •

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Google is using AI to design its next generation of AI chips more quickly than humans can •

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Across China, AI ‘city brains’ are changing how the government runs •

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This $2,700 robot dog will carry a single bottle of water for you •

Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/120

Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Release date

Lydbog: 17. juni 2021