S3 E7: Nando de Freitas of DeepMind joins Host Pieter Abbeel to discuss Generalizable AI to Benefit Everyone

What's in this episode:

00:00:00 - Nando de Freitas
00:01:34 sponsors: Index Ventures and Weights and Biases
00:02:30 AI becoming mainstream
00:04:44 making sure AI is benefitting the whole world
00:10:20 great energy at African and South American AI workshops
00:12:03 latest trends in LLMs and their effect on the world
00:15:47 different parts of the world have different AI needs
00:19:52 AlphaCode
00:24:56 autocomplete AI add-ons
00:25:35 a generalist agent -- Gato
00:33:20 Gato's sequence of tokens
00:37:51 using videos to train AI agents
00:44:03 robots learning by watching videos
00:48:34 learning to learn
00:54:42 supplementing LLMs with human-like methods of communication to solve problems
01:03:12 the next 5 to 10 years in AI
01:12:40 career trajectory and the original interest in AI


Guest links:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?...
  / nandodf  
https://www.deepmind.com/

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Host: Pieter Abbeel -- https://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~pabbeel
Production: Bo Obradovic