DeepMind's upgraded AlphaFold AI system, which can now predict the 3D structures of proteins, DNA, RNA, and more. They also explore Quora's Poe, an AI chatbot creator economy that allows bot creators to earn money. Additionally, they touch on Yann LeCun's warning about the concentration of AI power in the hands of a few companies. The episode also features reviews of research papers on pretrained models for computer vision tasks, offline reinforcement learning, and text rendering strategies for pixel language models.
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Timestamps:
00:34 Introduction
02:37 DeepMind updates AlphaFold: A glimpse of the next generation of AlphaFold
04:01 Quora’s Poe introduces an AI chatbot creator economy
05:35 Opinion: AI one-percenters seizing power forever is the real doomsday scenario, warns AI godfather
07:28 Fake sponsor
09:30 Battle of the Backbones: A Large-Scale Comparison of Pretrained Models across Computer Vision Tasks
10:52 Unleashing the Power of Pre-trained Language Models for Offline Reinforcement Learning
12:32 Text Rendering Strategies for Pixel Language Models
14:01 Outro
