#306 – Oriol Vinyals: Deep Learning and Artificial General Intelligence

Oriol Vinyals is the Research Director and Deep Learning Lead at DeepMind. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:

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Oriol’s publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=NkzyCvUAAAAJ

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Papers:

1. Gato: https://deepmind.com/publications/a-generalist-agent

2. Flamingo: https://deepmind.com/blog/tackling-multiple-tasks-with-a-single-visual-language-model

3. Language Models are Few-Shot Learners: https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14165

4. Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models: https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.07682

5. Attention Is All You Need: https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2017/file/3f5ee243547dee91fbd053c1c4a845aa-Paper.pdf

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OUTLINE:

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(00:00) – Introduction

(05:18) – AI

(20:14) – Weights

(26:33) – Gato

(1:01:22) – Meta learning

(1:15:21) – Neural networks

(1:37:46) – Emergence

(1:44:30) – AI sentience

(2:08:27) – AGI