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Demis confirmed DeepMind hasn’t cracked continual learning. There were rumors on X that Google DeepMind had solved it. Not true. They’re experimenting with blending AlphaZero with large foundation models to see if it can scale and generalize to the real world, not just games.

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589,166 views • 2 years ago

I got to "play" a world model in real life. The Google DeepMind folks set up a crazy demo for Genie. You select glowing orbs to represent your scene and character. It loads the world in the model, and you navigate with joysticks like a video game 🕹️
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58,397 views • 10 days ago