Ideas change everything

The next grand challenge for AI

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Jim Fan |

TEDAI 2023

• October 2023

Researcher Jim Fan presents the next grand challenge in the quest for AI: the "foundation agent," which would seamlessly operate across both the virtual and physical worlds. He explains how this technology could fundamentally change our lives — permeating everything from video games and metaverses to drones and humanoid robots — and explores how a single model could master skills across these different realities.

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Researcher Jim Fan presents the next grand challenge in the quest for AI: the "foundation agent," which would seamlessly operate across both the virtual and physical worlds. He explains how this technology could fundamentally change our lives — permeating everything from video games and metaverses to drones and humanoid robots — and explores how a single model could master skills across these different realities.

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About the speaker

Jim Fan

AI scientist

Linxi "Jim" Fan is a research scientist at NVIDIA AI, where his primary work centers around the development of autonomous agents capable of general tasks.

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