DeepMind today unveiled a new multi-modal AI system capable of performing more than 600 different tasks.
Dubbed Gato, its arguably the most impressive all-in-one machine learning kit the worlds seen yet.
Dont get me wrong, GPT-3 is impressive.
In fact, its arguably just as impressive as DeepMinds Gato, but that assessment requires some nuance.
What DeepMinds done with Gato is, well, pretty much the same thing.
I wouldnt say never, because thats one of sciences only cursed words.
But, this does make it seem like AGI wont be happening in our lifetimes.
DeepMinds been working on AGI for over a decade, and OpenAI since 2015.
I believe Gato could be the worlds most advanced multi-modal AI system.
But I also think DeepMinds taken the samedead-end-for-AGI conceptthat OpenAI has and merely made it more marketable.
But, Gato and GPT-3 are no more viable entry-points for AGI than the above-mentioned virtual assistants.
Its not a general AI, its a bunch of pre-trained, narrow models bundled neatly.
Thats not a bad thing, if thats what youre looking for.
