Deepmind: Is "Gato" a precursor for general artificial intelligence?

Deepmind's Gato solves many tasks, but none of them really well. Does the new AI system nevertheless lead the way for general artificial intelligence? Hot on the heels of OpenAI's DALL-E 2, Google's PaLM, LaMDA 2, and Deepmind's Chinchilla and Flamingo, the London-based AI company is showing off another large AI model that outperforms existing systems. Yet Deepmind's Gato is different: The model can't text better, describe images better, play Atari better, control robotic arms better, or orient itself in 3D spaces better than other AI systems. But Gato can do a bit of everything. Deepmind trained the Transformer-based multi-talent with images, text, proprioception, joint moments, keystrokes, and other discrete and continuous observations and actions.