{"id":12656,"date":"2022-06-09T08:22:47","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T12:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/?p=12656"},"modified":"2022-06-09T08:22:47","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T12:22:47","slug":"the-hype-around-deepminds-new-ai-model-misses-whats-actually-cool-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/the-hype-around-deepminds-new-ai-model-misses-whats-actually-cool-about-it\/12656\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hype Around DeepMind\u2019s New AI Model Misses What\u2019s Actually Cool About It"},"content":{"rendered":"Originally published in MIT Technology Review, May 23, 2022. Some worry that the chatter about these tools is doing the whole field a disservice. Earlier this month, DeepMind presented a new \u201cgeneralist\u201d AI model\u00a0called Gato. The model can play Atari video games, caption images, chat, and stack blocks with a real robot arm, the Alphabet-owned AI lab announced. All in all, Gato can do 604 different tasks. But while Gato is undeniably fascinating, in the week since its release some researchers have gotten a bit carried away. One of DeepMind\u2019s top researchers and a coauthor of the Gato <a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/the-hype-around-deepminds-new-ai-model-misses-whats-actually-cool-about-it\/12656\/\" class=\"more-link\">(more&hellip;)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in MIT Technology Review, May 23, 2022. Some worry that the chatter about these tools is doing the whole field a disservice. Earlier this month, DeepMind presented a new \u201cgeneralist\u201d AI model\u00a0called Gato. The model can play Atari video games, caption images, chat, and stack blocks with a real robot arm, the Alphabet-owned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11,48],"tags":[879,368,243,8],"class_list":["post-12656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news","category-left-hand","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-machine-learning","tag-predictive-analytics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12657,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12656\/revisions\/12657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}