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<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>A Generalist Agent · HackerPapers discussions</title><link>https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2205.06175/</link><description>Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.</description><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2205.06175/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><item><title>A Generalist Agent — mentioned by Isinlor</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32526437</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:2205.06175:32526437</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2022 21:55:22 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;See: https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.06175 A Generalist Agent Inspired by progress in large-scale language modeling, we apply a similar approach towards building a single generalist agent beyond the realm of text outputs. The agent, which we refer to as Gato, works as a multi-modal, multi-task, multi-embodiment generalist policy. The same network with the same weights can play Atari, caption images, chat, stack blocks with a real robot arm and much more, deciding based on its context whether to output text, joint torques, button presses, or other tokens. In this report we describe the model and…&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2205.06175/"&gt;Paper and discussion history&lt;/a&gt;. A mention is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.AI</category></item><item><title>A Generalist Agent — HN submission</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31415478</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:submission:2205.06175:31415478</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2022 19:45:33 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;Gato – A Generalist Agent&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;140 points; 58 discussion replies on HN. &lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2205.06175/"&gt;Paper and source history&lt;/a&gt;. A submission is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.AI</category></item></channel></rss>
