Last Week in AI - #125 - Nvidia tools for game devs, TikTok’s Tako, PandaGPT and Gorilla,...

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/ (https://lastweekin.ai/) Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai (mailto: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 (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/22/arts/blizzard-diffusion-ai-video-games.html) (12:16) Watch this Nvidia demo and imagine actually speaking to AI game characters (https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/28/23740908/nvidia-ace-demo-voice-ai-npc-game-characters) + Nvidia unveils Avatar Cloud Engine for Games at Computex (https://venturebeat.com/games/nvidia-unveils-avatar-cloud-engine-for-games-at-computex/) (15:27) JPMorgan is developing a ChatGPT-like A.I. service that gives investment advice (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/25/jpmorgan-develops-ai-investment-advisor.html) (16:40) TikTok is testing an AI chatbot called Tako (https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/25/23737017/tiktok-ai-chatbot-tako-test) (18:32) Zoo, a playground for text to image models (https://zoo.replicate.dev/) Applications & Business (20:10) Insights from American Workers: A Comprehensive Survey on AI in the Workplace (https://checkr.com/resources/articles/ai-workplace-survey-2023) (24:29) The A.I. chip boom is pushing Nvidia toward $1 trillion, but it won't help Intel and AMD (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/25/ai-pushing-nvidia-toward-1-trillion-wont-help-intel-and-amd.html) (29:12) Hoffman and Suleyman's AI startup Inflection launches ChatGPT-like chatbot (https://www.reuters.com/technology/reid-hoffmans-new-ai-startup-inflection-launches-chatgpt-like-chatbot-2023-05-02/) (31:31) Eating Disorder Helpline Fires Staff, Transitions to Chatbot After Unionization (https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7ezkm/eating-disorder-helpline-fires-staff-transitions-to-chatbot-after-unionization?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email) (33:51) AI startup Figure raises $70 million to build humanoid robots (https://www.reuters.com/technology/ai-startup-figure-raises-70-million-build-humanoid-robots-2023-05-24/) Projects & Open Source (35:21) PandaGPT: One Model to Instruction-Follow Them All (https://panda-gpt.github.io/?utm_source=aitidbits.substack.com&utm_medium=newsletter) (41:50) Uncensored Models (https://erichartford.com/uncensored-models) (47:30) Guanaco (https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/13rthln/guanaco_7b_13b_33b_and_65b_models_by_tim_dettmers/) (50:50) 🦍 Gorilla: Large Language Model Connected with Massive APIs (https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/) (52:17) BLOOMChat: a New Open Multilingual Chat LLM (https://sambanova.ai/blog/introducing-bloomchat-176b-the-multilingual-chat-based-llm/) (53:27) GirlfriendGPT - Your personal AI companion (https://github.com/EniasCailliau/GirlfriendGPT) Research & Advancements (55:45) Voyager: An Open-Ended Embodied Agent with Large Language Models (https://twitter.com/DrJimFan/status/1662115266933972993) (01:02:55) A Pretrainer's Guide to Training Data: Measuring the Effects of Data Age, Domain Coverage, Quality, & Toxicity (https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.13169) (01:07:33) RWKV: Reinventing RNNs for the Transformer Era (https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.13048) (01:09:35) Enabling Large Language Models to Generate Text with Citations (https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.14627) (01:11:12) Training Diffusion Models with Reinforcement Learning (https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.13301) Policy & Safety (01:14:43) PM meeting with leading CEOs in AI: 24 May 2023 (https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pm-meeting-with-leading-ceos-in-ai-24-may-2023) (01:18:05) An early warning system for novel AI risks (https://www.deepmind.com/blog/an-early-warning-system-for-novel-ai-risks?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=ModelEval) [3 min] Lighting Round (01:22:07) How Rogue AIs may Arise (https://yoshuabengio.org/2023/05/22/how-rogue-ais-may-arise/) (01:24:30) Democratic Inputs to AI (https://openai.com/blog/democratic-inputs-to-ai#policy-statements-under-consideration) (01:26:20) Top AI researchers and CEOs warn against ‘risk of extinction’ in 22-word statement (https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/30/23742005/ai-risk-warning-22-word-statement-google-deepmind-openai) (01:29:30) Why an Octopus-like Creature Has Come to Symbolize the State of A.I. (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/30/technology/shoggoth-meme-ai.html) Synthetic Media & Art (01:31:48) Grimes Invited Anyone to Make A.I. Grimes Songs. Here Are Her Reviews. (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/24/arts/music/grimes-ai-songs.html) + I used Grimes’ AI vocals to make a hit – here’s how I did it (https://www.nme.com/features/music-features/grimes-kito-cold-touch-artificial-intelligence-3446311) (01:34:27) As a lifelong Beatles fan, this AI-generated Beatles music is blowing my mind...