Metaverse and AI Update

📟 Metaverse

Value Creation in the Metaverse

McKinsey Report about trends in the Metaverse — investments, preferences of consumers and executives. The report discusses current investments and talks about the Metaverse and where it might be going. Big areas include eCommerce, fashion and gaming among others. This is a great TLDR to get you up to speed or to give you an overview of 2022

🤖 AI

Microsoft’s VALL-E, Requires 3 Seconds of Voice to Replicate It

Microsoft has unveiled VALL-E, an AI that can replicate a human’s voice, including displaying emotions, after listening to just a 3-second recording of the voice

Microsoft’s Investing in an AI Future

Microsoft is in talks to invest $10 bln in OpenAI, the creator of DALL-E and ChatGPT. This will give them a 49% stake in the company. They have also teamed up with NVIDIA to build the next supercomputer hosted on their Azure service, possibly to be used in training OpenAI’s future models. This news comes in the middle of their effort to buy Activision-Blizzard, positioning them even better to be a leader in the race for creating the next era of the digital world.

How ChatGPT Was Trained

This article discusses how ChatGPT was trained to become the beast that it is. It also talks about some of the problems and shortcomings of such training:

In very simple terms, the lack of such a control study is leaving a fundamental question completely open: is RLHF actually doing a good job in aligning language models?

Also

Human preferences are just not homogeneous: The RLHF method treats human preferences as if they were homogeneous and static. Assuming that all people share the same values would be an obvious stretch, at least on a large amount of topics of human knowledge

Transformers Explainer

I mentioned transformers earlier, and it is a concept that lies at the base of many of the AI models we are seeing nowadays. This guide is a long and somewhat understandable post explaining what that means. It would require some previous understanding and probably a lot of googling.

NVIDIA Maxine

NVIDIA is releasing a package of SDKs that can be used to harness the power of AI in order to enhance the real-time video and audio communication. There is a video in the article with examples of some of the features

Why Would AI Want to Do Bad Things?

Have a look at this video talking about why an AI would almost certainly not want to be shut down, not want to be modified and try to acquire matter and energy, regardless of what its goals are