Last Week in AI #60: DeepMind on General AI, Creepy Fake Humans, City Brains - a podcast by Skynet Today

Our latest 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)

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