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]

References

  1. ↑ Ray, Tiernan (May 14, 2022), DeepMind's 'Gato' is mediocre, so why did they build it?, ZDNet
  2. ↑ Heikkilä, Melissa (May 23, 2022), "The hype around DeepMind's new AI model misses what's actually cool about it", MIT Technology Review
  3. ↑ Cuthbertson, Anthony (23 May 2022). "'The Game is Over': Google's DeepMind says it is on verge of achieving human-level AI". The Independent.
  4. ↑ Reed, Scott; Zolna, Konrad; Parisotto, Emilio; Sergio Gomez Colmenarejo; Novikov, Alexander; Barth-Maron, Gabriel; Gimenez, Mai; Sulsky, Yury; Kay, Jackie; Jost Tobias Springenberg; Eccles, Tom; Bruce, Jake; Razavi, Ali; Edwards, Ashley; Heess, Nicolas; Chen, Yutian; Hadsell, Raia; Vinyals, Oriol; Bordbar, Mahyar; de Freitas, Nando (12 May 2022). "A Generalist Agent". arXiv: 2205.06175 [cs.AI].
  5. ↑ Wiggers, Kyle (May 13, 2022), "DeepMind's new AI can perform over 600 tasks, from playing games to controlling robots", TechCrunch

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