🤖 AI Takes On A New Game

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• AI changes how people watch the NFL

• AI plays Pokemon for 50,000 hours

• OpenAI gave up on an AI model

• The US escalates the AI Chip War with China

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There isn’t a massive overlap between AI enthusiasts and NFL fans.

I understand, but this story is too incredible not to talk about this morning. See, Amazon is changing the way football fans watch games on their TV.

I’ve checked it out, and the hype is real. A special “Prime Vision” broadcast from Amazon uses AI overlays to show viewers details they might otherwise miss.

Trust me when I say this view makes you feel like a pro quarterback.

There’s even a new feature where the AI identifies potential blitzing players and highlights them with a circle graphic on the screen. For the non-football fans, that’s hard to do for professionals and is a remarkable accomplishment.

But why should non-fans care?

Television and sports broadcasting is about to change forever. This technology can permeate into any sport that uses advanced analytics.

Okay, so now let’s imagine what this could do for entertainment in general. Yeah, Amazon is onto something here, guys. And it starts with an algorithm calling out blitzes before they happen.

One slight hiccup to mention:

We still don’t know how the black box works. Former NFL and college players oversaw the RLHF (reinforcement learning through human feedback) process, but we don’t understand why the model decides what it decides. 

This is why a miraculous moment happened last Thursday when the AI spotted a player blitzing that seemed so unlikely that one of the creators thought it was malfunctioning; incredible.

There’s a game tonight. Check out Prime Vision if you want to see it live.

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Do yourself a favor and watch this video.

I loved Twitch Plays Pokemon. When it came out, I was recovering from knee surgery. So I watched it for hours and remember a ton of fantastic moments.

That technological marvel brought a community together, and this story feels like a redux. A software engineer decided to push the envelope further and teach AI to play Pokemon independently.

The results are fascinating.

This video helps you learn a lot about how researchers train AI. It explains some basics of reinforcement learning and reward systems.

You get to watch an AI agent panic in a Pokemon center and steer clear after it learns that the PC takes away their Pokemon. Then, watch it stare at a lake instead of exploring Kanto.

Why? It’s all explained in the video, and I’d argue that the whole experience even teaches us about the human condition.

So check it out and let me know what you think!

📃 The Information reports on a rare setback at OpenAI that caused them to abandon a new AI model they were training

🌱 DeepMind believes that there’s a way for AI to solve the climate crisis

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🗽 The Mayor of New York City is using AI to make robocalls in different languages to spread his messages further

💾 The AI Chip War between the US and China just got even more heated

🥇 Stanford has ranked ten AI models for the sake of transparency

🥊 Two open-source challengers are doing their best to match GPT-4V’s multimodal capabilities

🤔 1,000 Americans are helping Anthropic write a new AI constitution to control their bot

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