DeepMind on General AI, Creepy Fake Humans, City Brains

<p class="post-info">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.</p> <p>This week:</p> <ul><li> <p><a href='https://www.marktechpost.com/2021/06/04/microsofts-zero-infinity-library-claims-to-train-32-trillion-parameters-deep-learning-models-on-a-cluster-of-just-32-gpus/'>Microsoft’s ZeRO-Infinity Library Claims to Train 32 trillion Parameters Deep Learning Models On A Cluster of Just 32 GPUs</a></p> </li> <li> <p><a href='https://bdtechtalks.com/2021/06/07/deepmind-artificial-intelligence-reward-maximization/'>DeepMind scientists: Reinforcement learning is enough for general AI</a></p> </li> <li> <p><a href='https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/03/care-bots-on-the-rise-elder-care'>‘Care bots’ are on the rise and replacing human caregivers</a></p> </li> <li> <p><a href='https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/06/11/1026135/ai-synthetic-data/'>These creepy fake humans herald a new age in AI</a></p> </li> <li> <p><a href='https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/10/22527476/google-machine-learning-chip-design-tpu-floorplanning'>Google is using AI to design its next generation of AI chips more quickly than humans can</a></p> </li> <li> <p><a href='https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3136661/across-china-ai-city-brains-are-changing-how-government-runs'>Across China, AI ‘city brains’ are changing how the government runs</a></p> </li> <li> <p><a href='https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/10/22527413/tiny-robot-dog-unitree-robotics-go1'>This $2,700 robot dog will carry a single bottle of water for you</a></p> </li> </ul> <p>Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup:  https://lastweekin.ai/p/120</p> <p>Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)</p>