Lets Talk AI 2021: The (full) year in review

Host Jeremie Harris and folks at the Let s Talk AI podcast recap 2021 s AI milestones in this yearend crossover episode. Happy New Year, TDS podcast listeners Intro music: Artist: Ron Gelinas Track Title: Daybreak Chill Blend (original mix) Link to Track: 0:00 Intro 2:15 Rise of multimodal models 7:40 Growth of hardware and compute 13:20 Reinforcement learning 20:45 Openended learning 26:15 Power seeking paper 32:30 Safety and assumptions 35:20 Intrinsic vs. extrinsic motivation 42:00 Mapping natural language 46:20 Timnit Gebrus research institute 49:20 Wrapup