#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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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:
Here's the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.
(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

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

– Shopify: https://shopify.com/lex to get 14-day free trial

– Weights & Biases: https://lexfridman.com/wnb

– Magic Spoon: https://magicspoon.com/lex and use code LEX to get $5 off

– Blinkist: https://blinkist.com/lex and use code LEX to get 25% off premium

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

PODCAST INFO:

Podcast website: https://lexfridman.com/podcast

Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lwqZIr

Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2nEwCF8

RSS: https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/

YouTube Full Episodes: https://youtube.com/lexfridman

YouTube Clips: https://youtube.com/lexclips

SUPPORT & CONNECT:

– Check out the sponsors above, it’s the best way to support this podcast

– Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lexfridman

– Twitter: https://twitter.com/lexfridman

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– Medium: https://medium.com/@lexfridman

OUTLINE:

Here’s the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.

(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