{"id":201738,"date":"2024-12-16T10:42:31","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T16:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/deepmind-vice-president-sees-ai-on-the-brink-of-a-fundamental-shift-towards-autonomous-agents"},"modified":"2024-12-16T10:42:31","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T16:42:31","slug":"deepmind-vice-president-sees-ai-on-the-brink-of-a-fundamental-shift-towards-autonomous-agents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/deepmind-vice-president-sees-ai-on-the-brink-of-a-fundamental-shift-towards-autonomous-agents","title":{"rendered":"DeepMind Vice President sees AI on the brink of a fundamental shift towards autonomous agents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/deepmind-vice-president-sees-ai-on-the-brink-of-a-fundamental-shift-towards-autonomous-agents2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>DeepMind\u2019s Vice President of Drastic Research and Gemini co-tech lead Oriol Vinyals describes how artificial intelligence is moving from narrowly focused systems toward autonomous agents, and what challenges remain ahead.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ad.<\/p>\n<p>According to Vinyals, AI is going through a fundamental transformation away from highly specialized systems and toward autonomous agents. Speaking on a company podcast, he explained that early AI systems like <a href=\"https:\/\/the-decoder.com\/student-of-games-deepmind-shows-unified-learning-algorithm-for-games\/\">AlphaStar<\/a>, which focused on playing StarCraft, were just the beginning of this development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DeepMind\u2019s Vice President of Drastic Research and Gemini co-tech lead Oriol Vinyals describes how artificial intelligence is moving from narrowly focused systems toward autonomous agents, and what challenges remain ahead. Ad. According to Vinyals, AI is going through a fundamental transformation away from highly specialized systems and toward autonomous agents. Speaking on a company podcast, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":718,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/718"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}