Richard Sutton launches Oak Lab - "Our holy grail: A trillion-parameter agent that learns and plans in real-time with 20 watts of energy"
Some background: Richard Sutton has been talking about a grand architecture for intelligence for the past year or two, which he's labeled "OaK", short for "Options and Knowledge". It's a proposed blueprint for AGI that relies on dynamic RL where an AI learns continuously from its own experiences, builds its own concepts and skills, and uses those learned skills to plan and improve over time rather than relying mainly on pre-trained data.
Khurram Javed described what the lab's goals are in the next few years on X:
We will be sharing our progress often and aim to build a prototype of the complete OaK architecture in the next few years. A successful prototype will be closer to a baby learning in its first year than it will be to any of the current AI systems.