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No-code games with GenAI, the creative possibilities of LLMs, and our proximity to AGI: In this episode, Jon Krohn talks to Andrey Kurenkov about what turned him from an AGI skeptic to a positivist. You’ll also hear about his wildly popular podcast “Last Week in AI” and how the NVIDIA-backed startup Astrocade is helping videogame enthusiasts to create their own games through generative AI. A must-listen!
This episode is brought to you by AWS Inferentia and AWS Trainium. Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information.
In this episode you will learn:
• All about The Gradient and Last Week in AI [10:42]
• All about Astrocade and Andrey’s role at the startup [24:35]
• Balancing UX and creative control at Astrocade [42:00]
• The creative possibilities of LLMs [1:04:15]
• The rapid emergence of AGI [1:10:31]
Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/799
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No-code games with GenAI, the creative possibilities of LLMs, and our proximity to AGI: In this episode, Jon Krohn talks to Andrey Kurenkov about what turned him from an AGI skeptic to a positivist. You’ll also hear about his wildly popular podcast “Last Week in AI” and how the NVIDIA-backed startup Astrocade is helping videogame enthusiasts to create their own games through generative AI. A must-listen!
This episode is brought to you by AWS Inferentia and AWS Trainium. Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information.
In this episode you will learn:
• All about The Gradient and Last Week in AI [10:42]
• All about Astrocade and Andrey’s role at the startup [24:35]
• Balancing UX and creative control at Astrocade [42:00]
• The creative possibilities of LLMs [1:04:15]
• The rapid emergence of AGI [1:10:31]
Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/799