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AI Researcher Yi Tay Discusses AGI, RL, and Projects on Latent Space Podcast

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Yi Tay, a researcher at AI company Databricks, appeared on the Latent Space Podcast to discuss several topics in artificial intelligence. The conversation touched upon IMO Gold, a project related to competitive programming, and Deep Think, a system for generating text. Tay also shared insights into on-policy reinforcement learning and his personal feelings about the progress towards artificial general intelligence (AGI), particularly in the context of Singapore. AI

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AI Researcher Yi Tay Discusses AGI, RL, and Projects on Latent Space Podcast

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  1. Latent Space Podcast TIER_1 English(EN) · Latent.Space ·

    Captaining IMO Gold, Deep Think, On-Policy RL, Feeling the AGI in Singapore — Yi Tay

    <p>From shipping Gemini Deep Think and IMO Gold to launching the Reasoning and AGI team in Singapore, Yi Tay has spent the last 18 months living through the full arc of Google DeepMind’s pivot from architecture research to RL-driven reasoning—watching his...</p>

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