#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! Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai 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. 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 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .