#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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Papers:
1. Gato: deepmind.com
2. Flamingo: deepmind.com
3. Language Models are Few-Shot Learners: arxiv.org
4. Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models: arxiv.org
5. Attention Is All You Need: proceedings.neurips.cc

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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