Pac-GAN - DTNS 3788

Daily Tech News Show

Tom Merritt

News, Technology

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

An Nvidia created A.I. has replicated the game Pac-Man using a machine learning framework called generative adversarial networks. Why is this achievement notable and what will be learned from it?

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Shannon Morse, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.

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0:00.0	A tech demo shows off the usual tech things.
0:03.7	Then I'm going to jump to a link using the usual tech devices.
0:07.0	We have a pointing device called a mouse.
0:09.0	Doing the usual tech productivity tasks.
0:11.4	Now we're connected audio. You can see my work, you can point at it, and I can see
0:15.7	your face and we can talk. Except it's 1968 and it's going to set the computing agenda for the
0:20.5	next half century, then almost immediately be ignored.
0:24.4	The mother of all demos on NOAA Little More.
0:27.6	Get it wherever you get your podcasts.
0:31.6	This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber eats so you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone
0:46.4	else's.
0:49.4	Trains now on Uber.
0:50.8	Tees and sees apply.
0:51.7	Check the Uber app.
0:59.2	Coming up on DTNS, Pac-Man is 30 and has been reinvented from scratch by an AI. Why the cops don't have the right to look at your lock screen without a warrant, and you've been
1:05.0	pronouncing that one tech term wrong, but we'll tell you the right way.
1:08.0	This is the daily tech news for Friday, May 22nd, 2020 in Los Angeles.
1:15.0	I'm Tom Merritt.
1:16.0	And from Studio Redwood, I'm Sarah Lane.
1:18.0	From Studio Denver, I'm Shannon Morse.
1:21.0	Draw on the top Tech stories in Cleveland, Ohio, I'm Lend Peralta.
1:24.0	The show's producer, and I'm the show's producer, Roger Chaney.
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