
DeepMind on General AI, Creepy Fake Humans, City Brains
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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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DeepMind scientists: Reinforcement learning is enough for general 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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