I left my dream job at Google — and I’m undoubtedly happier

May14
by on May 14, 2022 at 4:00 pm
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A few months ago, I quit my job at Google after 10 years to join a 40 person startup (Replit). At the time, I had a hard time expressing why I needed to make the change, even though I knew with certainty. Writing this helped me sort it out. I left because I needed to fix my work-life balance. I joined Google in early 2011. Larry Page was beginning his second stint as CEO. Everybody was talking about a secret project named Emerald Sea. TGIF was on Fridays, and we attended in person. At the time it was my dream job.…

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DeepMind’s astounding new ‘Gato’ AI makes me fear humans will never achieve AGI

May13
by on May 13, 2022 at 7:00 pm
Posted In: artificial intelligence, Opinion


DeepMind today unveiled a new multi-modal AI system capable of performing more than 600 different tasks. Dubbed Gato, it’s arguably the most impressive all-in-one machine learning kit the world’s seen yet. According to a DeepMind blog post: The agent, which we refer to as Gato, works as a multi-modal, multi-task, multi-embodiment generalist policy. The same network with the same weights can play Atari, caption images, chat, stack blocks with a real robot arm and much more, deciding based on its context whether to output text, joint torques, button presses, or other tokens. Credit: DeepMind And while it remains to be…

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