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Can we build a generalist agent? Dr. Minqi Jiang and Dr. Marc Rigter

Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

CHAPTER

Exploring Generalist Agents and Autocurricular Learning

The chapter delves into building a generalist agent capable of handling diverse tasks without specific knowledge of rewards, focusing on intrinsic motivation and high entropy search to optimize learning. It discusses autocurricular methods in machine learning, self-supervised objectives, and the balance between self-supervised learning in language models and image learning. The conversation also touches on enhancing productivity through leveraging existing expertise while cautioning against getting locked into suboptimal solutions.

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