One-Minute Daily AI News 8/18/2023

1. NCSoft, the South Korean game developer and publisher behind long-running MMORPG Guild Wars, announced that it has developed four new AI large language models, dubbed VARCO, to help streamline future game development.[1]
2. AI to help UK industries cut carbon emissions on path to net zero.[2]
3. OpenAI, the AI company behind the viral AI-powered chatbot ChatGPT, has acquired Global Illumination, a New York–based startup leveraging AI to build creative tools, infrastructure and digital experiences. Global Illumination’s most recent creation is Biomes, a Minecraft-like open source sandbox multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) built for the web.[3]

4. Researchers at Stanford University, Anthropic, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison tackle it by designing language models to learn the annotation tasks in context and replace manual labeling at scale.[4]

   Sources:

[1] https://www.engadget.com/ncsofts-new-ai-suite-is-trained-to-streamline-game-production-141653946.html

[2] https://www.gov.uk/government/news/ai-to-help-uk-industries-cut-carbon-emissions-on-path-to-net-zero

[3] https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/16/openai-acquires-ai-design-studio-global-illumination/

[4] https://www.marktechpost.com/2023/08/16/meet-embroid-an-ai-method-for-stitching-together-an-llm-with-embedding-information-from-multiple-smaller-models-allowing-to-automatically-correct-llm-predictions-without-supervision/

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