Apr 22, 2022
Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news and research,
including a proposal from the Ada Lovelace Institute with 18
recommendations to strengthen the EU AI Act. [0:57] NVidia updates
its Neural Radiance Fields to Instant NeRF, which can reconstruct a
3D scene from 2D images nearly 1000 times faster than other
implementations. [2:53] Nearly 100 Chinese-affiliated researchers
publish a 200-page position paper about large-scale models, a
“roadmap.” [4:13] In research, GoogleAI introduces PaLM (Pathway
Language Model), at 540B parameters, which demonstrates the ability
for logical inference and joke explanation. [7:09] OpenAI announces
DALL-E 2, the successor to its previous image-from-text generator,
which is no longer confused by mislabeling an item; though
interestingly demonstrates greater resolution and diversity to
similar technology from OpenAI, GLIDE, but not rated as well by
humans, and DALL-E 2 still has challenges with ‘binding
attributes.’ [11:32] A white paper from Gary Marcus look at ‘Deep
Learning Is Hitting a Wall: What would it take for AI to make real
progress?’ which includes an examination of a symbol-manipulation
system that beat the best deep learning systems at playing ASCII
game NetHack. [16:10] Professor Chad Jenkins from the University of
Michigan returns to discuss the latest developments, including the
upcoming Department of Robotics, and a robotics undergraduate
degree. [19:10]
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