Lex Fridman Podcast

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

Jul 26, 2022

Oriol Vinyals, Research Director at DeepMind, dives into the intriguing world of deep learning and artificial general intelligence. He discusses Gato, an innovative AI model blending language, vision, and action, and the philosophical challenges of defining AI consciousness. Vinyals also explores the human elements in AI interactions and the significance of emotional engagement. The conversation touches on the evolution of neural networks, the journey toward AGI, and a future where humans and AI coexist as multi-planetary beings.

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Oriol Vinyals

Highlights

AI Chapters

Episode notes

Problem: Retraining each AI model from scratch

01:06

Will we have AI-created Podcasts?

02:51

What is the Magic of Attention (Transformers)?

01:18

Tokenize Text Text in a Sequence?

03:42

Intro

6min

The Human Element in AI Conversations

21min

Exploring Gato: The Multimodal AI Model

10min

Scaling Neural Networks and Enhancing AI Learning

2min

Understanding Tokenization in Deep Learning

7min

Modularity and Meta-Learning in AI

29min

Advancements in Deep Learning: Collaboration and Challenges

21min

Rethinking Benchmarks and AI Consciousness

29min

The Importance of General Methods and Scaling in AI

3min

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Towards Artificial General Intelligence

4min

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The Future of Humanity and AI in a Multi-Planetary World

2min

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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EPISODE LINKS:
Oriol’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/oriolvinyalsml
Oriol’s publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=NkzyCvUAAAAJ
DeepMind’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/DeepMind
DeepMind’s Instagram: https://instagram.com/deepmind
DeepMind’s Website: https://deepmind.com
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

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