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AI Helps Paralyzed Man Take First Steps in 12 Years

AI Helps Paralyzed Man Take First Steps in 12 Years

Plus Nvidia announces an AI supercomputer

Nathaniel Whittemore
May 30, 2023

The AI Breakdown First Five - Tuesday May 30, 2023

A note: the First Five experiment continues this week! Hope those of you who are in the US had a great long weekend.

5. Not With a Bang, But With A Minecraft Agent?

A group of researchers has announced Voyager, a GPT-4 powered agent that plays Minecraft autonomously, continuously improving itself by writing and refining code from a skill library. Twitter was blown away. Some of the AI safety/alignment folks…not so much.

What if we set GPT-4 free in Minecraft? ⛏️
I’m excited to announce Voyager, the first lifelong learning agent that plays Minecraft purely in-context. Voyager continuously improves itself by writing, refining, committing, and retrieving *code* from a skill library.
GPT-4 unlocks… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— Jim Fan (@DrJimFan)
3:15 PM • May 26, 2023

Presented to those of you who thought there was a hard difference between 'agentic' minds and LLMs, where you had to like deliberately train it to be an agent or something: (a) they're doing it on purpose OF COURSE, and (b) they're doing it using an off-the-shelf LLM.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky (@ESYudkowsky)
7:24 PM • May 26, 2023

4. AI “Cures” Paralysis

Researchers in Switzerland have successfully completed an experimental procedure in which they wirelessly connected a patient’s brain and damaged spinal cord. For the first time in 12 years, he was able to take steps and climb up stairs.

This is incredible. This is why I cover AI news.
AI enabled a paralyzed man walk again after 12 years.🤯
Researchers used AI to decode the man's thoughts and translate them into spinal cord stimulation, which was activated using an implant and a bluetooth headset.
This… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— AI Daily (@AlexAIDaily)
1:25 PM • May 29, 2023

3. ChatGPT Shared Links

You can now share links of your most interesting, revealing, or brilliant ChatGPT conversations with friends and colleagues. On the one hand, this is an incredibly useful feature that expands ChatGPT’s utility. On the other hand, the fact that this didn’t already exist shows just how nascent the ChatGPT UI is!

2. A Lawyer is in Trouble for Citing Fake Cases from ChatGPT

If you thought it was just students who were citing ChatGPT hallucinations without double-checking, oh how wrong you are. A lawyer with more than thirty years of experience has thrown himself at the mercy of the courts after citing a raft of fake cases in his client’s lawsuit against Avianca Airlines.

A lawyer used ChatGPT to do "legal research" and cited a number of nonexistent cases in a filing, and is now in a lot of trouble with the judge 🤣
— Daniel Feldman (@d_feldman)
4:02 AM • May 27, 2023

1. Nvidia’s 2-Hour AI Keynote

At Computex in Taiwan, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said as he wrapped up the company’s presentation “It’s too much…I know it’s too much!” Presumably, he was referring to announcing a new, more powerful chip, an AI supercomputer to match, more advanced networking for AI datacenters, a partnership with the world’s biggest advertiser and a new generative AI-powered gaming platform, among other things.

Last night, Jensen Huang of NVIDIA gave his very first live keynote in 4-years.
The most show-stopping moment from the event was when he showed off the real-time AI in video games. A human speaks, the NPC responds, in real time and the dialogue was generated with AI on the fly.
— Matt Wolfe (@mreflow)
6:02 PM • May 29, 2023

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