[ExI] Deepmind Gato - Another step towards AGI

[Mike Dougherty]

On Tue, May 17, 2022, 3:26 PM BillK via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

>
> Dr de Freitas is DeepMind’s research director.
> Obviously, part of his job is to publicise their achievements, with an
> eye on more funding and more researchers.
> GATO is a 'proof-of-concept' generalised AI application. He knows that
> scaling-up requires much more research. He says “It’s all about making
> these models bigger, safer, compute efficient, faster at sampling,
> smarter memory, more modalities, innovative data, on/offline...
> Solving these challenges is what will deliver AGI.”
> It won't happen next week, but in a few more years...........
>

I have no doubt it will happen.

I have no reason to question credentials.

I was mostly commenting on "just scale up" has been the plan now for half a
century
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