{"podcast":{"title":"Towards Data Science","slug":"towards-data-science","podcast_index_feed_id":249150,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/36b4844/podcast/rss","website_url":"http://towardsdatascience.com/","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_nologo/473625/473625-1610835245953-54c8379418937.jpg","author":"The TDS team","episode_count":130,"summary":"Note: The TDS podcast's current run has ended. Researchers and business leaders at the forefront of the field unpack the most pressing questions around data science and AI.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/towards-data-science"},"episode":{"title":"108. Last Week In AI — 2021: The (full) year in review","slug":"108-last-week-in-ai-2021-the-full-year-in-review","published_at":"2022-01-05T15:21:52+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/towards-data-science/108-last-week-in-ai-2021-the-full-year-in-review","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/towards-data-science","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/towardsdatascience/episodes/108--Last-Week-In-AI--2021-The-full-year-in-review-e1ch7nn","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/36b4844/podcast/play/45702327/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2022-0-4%2Fd2caa60d-f61a-a69a-9e68-b254fac5ff12.m4a","summary":"2021 has been a wild ride in many ways, but its wildest features might actually be AI-related. We’ve seen major advances in everything from language modeling to multi-modal learning, open-ended learning and even AI alignment. So, we thought, what better way to take stock of the big AI-related milestones we’ve reached in 2021 than a cross-over episode with our friends over at the Last Week In AI podcast. *** Intro music : - Artist: Ron Gelinas - Track Title: Daybreak Chill Blend (original mix) - Link to Track: https://youtu.be/d8Y2sKIgFWc *** Chapters : 0:00 Intro 2:15 Rise of multi-modal models 7:40 Growth of hardware and compute 13:20 Reinforcement learning 20:45 Open-ended 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 Gebru’s research institute 49:20 Wrap-up","meta_description":"2021 has been a wild ride in many ways, but its wildest features might actually be AI-related. We’ve seen major advances in everything from language model…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3021,"processing_state":"failed","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/towards-data-science/episodes/108-last-week-in-ai-2021-the-full-year-in-review/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/towards-data-science/108-last-week-in-ai-2021-the-full-year-in-review.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}