DeepMind on General AI, Creepy Fake Humans, City Brains

Published: June 17, 2021, 12:09 p.m.

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.\n\n\n\n\nThis week:\n\nMicrosoft\u2019s ZeRO-Infinity Library Claims to Train 32 trillion Parameters Deep Learning Models On A Cluster of Just 32 GPUs\n\n\nDeepMind scientists: Reinforcement learning is enough for general AI\n\n\n\u2018Care bots\u2019 are on the rise and replacing human caregivers\n\n\nThese creepy fake humans herald a new age in AI\n\n\nGoogle is using AI to design its next generation of AI chips more quickly than humans can\n\n\nAcross China, AI \u2018city brains\u2019 are changing how the government runs\n\n\nThis $2,700 robot dog will carry a single bottle of water for you\n\nFind this and more in our text version of this news roundup:\xa0 https://lastweekin.ai/p/120\n\n\nMusic: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)