Gato (DeepMind)

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Gato
Original author(s) DeepMind
Initial releaseMay 12, 2022
Website www.deepmind.com

Gato is a deep neural network for a range of complex tasks that exhibits multimodality. It can perform tasks such as engaging in a dialogue, playing video games, controlling a robot arm to stack blocks, and more. It was created by researchers at London-based AI firm DeepMind. It is a transformer, like GPT-3. [1] According to MIT Technology Review , the system "learns multiple different tasks at the same time, which means it can switch between them without having to forget one skill before learning another" whereas "[t]he AI systems of today are called “narrow,” meaning they can only do a specific, restricted set of tasks such as generate text", [2] and according to The Independent , it is a "'generalist agent' that can carry out a huge range of complex tasks, from stacking blocks to writing poetry". [3] It uses supervised learning with 1.2B parameters. [4] The technology has been described as "general purpose" artificial intelligence and a "step toward" artificial general intelligence. [5]

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References

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