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

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Lex Fridman

Philosophy, Science, Society & Culture, Technology

4.713.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2022

⏱️ 135 minutes

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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

Transcript

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0:00.0

The following is a conversation with Oriol Vinyalis, his second time in the podcast.

0:04.9

Oriol is the research director and deep learning lead a deep mind and one of the most brilliant

0:11.2

thinkers and researchers in the history of artificial intelligence.

0:16.8

And now a quick few second mention of each sponsor.

0:19.5

Check them out in the description. It's the best way to support this podcast. We've got Shopify

0:24.4

for e-commerce, weights and biases from machine learning, magic spoon for breakfast and blinkus

0:30.4

for non-fiction. Choose wisely my friends. And now onto the full ad reads, no ads in the middle.

0:37.0

I try to make this interesting but if you skip them please still check out our sponsors. I enjoy

0:41.6

their stuff. Maybe you will too. This show is brought to you by Shopify. A platform designed for

0:48.3

anyone to sell anywhere. The great looking online store that brings your ideas to life. And of course

0:55.0

it has tools to manage day to day operation. A bunch of folks ask me to have some kind of merch.

1:02.4

As a fan of a bunch of podcasts I find merch to be pretty cool. It's a cool way to celebrate

1:08.1

people you connect with because of a podcast or a show or any kind of thing. It's just fun.

1:14.3

No matter what your goal is, Shopify is a great platform to make it happen. It makes the whole thing

1:23.1

easy from beginning to end including daily management. Anyway, Shopify powers over 1.7 million

1:30.5

entrepreneurs. You can get a free trial and full access to Shopify's entire suite of features

1:36.1

when you sign up at Shopify.com slash Lex. That's all lowercase Shopify.com slash Lex.

1:45.7

This show is also brought to you by weights and biases. The company helping machine learning

1:51.2

teams build better models faster. You can debug, compare, reproduce models, architectures,

1:59.8

hyper parameters, git commits, model weights, GPU usage, and even data sets and predictions.

2:06.6

And you can do all of this while collaborating with teammates. It's like Google docs type of

2:13.6

collaboration but for your own network, hyper parameters. It's an amazing visualization,

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