The Memo - 21/Jun/2022
Mid-2022 AI report, DeepMind Perceiver AR, BAAI CogView 2, and much more!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 21/Jun/2022
Welcome back to The Memo. This week, we are joined by new readers from some massive AI companies in California.
The BIG Stuff
The sky is bigger than we imagine (21/Jun/2022)
Today, as a reader of The Memo, you get exclusive first access to my mid-year AI report. It is around 5,000 words, and the video is around 45 minutes. I cover AGI, scaling, IQ testing, writing books, Moderna, and much more, all in plain English!
Download the PDF (5MB).
The Interesting Stuff
Perceiver AR (Jun/2022)
DeepMind announced Perceiver AR this week. They finally added text to the modalities, and the music output is amazing (full YouTube playlist of 8 piano tracks). Otherwise, this model is not particularly big news, and is overtaken by their own Flamingo model based on Transformer.
3D head avatars (Jun/2022)
Samsung AI Centre Moscow has been working on realistic one-shot human head avatars. The videos are fascinating.
Embodied AI: The new focus! (Jun/2…