An exploration of the new generalist model from DeepMind. Is the road towards AGI now open?

Trained on 604 tasks using supervised learning and managing 450 of those with an expert score of over 50% with only 1.18 billion parameters, this model has been generating quite a lot of buzz in recent days.

But is the hype actually missing the point and even harming the field?

What do you think about it's likely impact?

See the DeepMind paper here: https://www.deepmind.com/publi....cations/a-generalist

Here are some more in depth videos:

What's AI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZKSWNv6Esc

The Sound of AI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zO49vZ31xb0

MIT technology review:
https://www.technologyreview.c....om/2022/05/23/105262

#MachineLearning #GATO #DeepMind