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Nando de Freitas
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De Freitas helped advance Bayesian optimization, which finds promising model settings with fewer costly trials. He co-authored the Gato paper, demonstrating a single neural network that could chat, caption images, play games and control a robot arm.
Career & education
Microsoft AI2024-Aug 2026
Google DeepMind2014-2024
University of Oxford2013-2024
University of the Witwatersrand
University of CambridgeWork and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
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Selected contributions
A Generalist Agent
With Scott Reed, Konrad Żołna, Emilio Parisotto, Sergio Gomez Colmenarejo, Alexander Novikov, Gabriel Barth-Maron, Mai Gimenez and others ·Gato brought language, games, image descriptions and robot control into a single model.
Genie: Generative Interactive Environments
With Jake Bruce, Michael D Dennis, Ashley Edwards, Jack Parker-Holder, Yuge Shi, Edward Hughes, Matthew Lai and others ·Genie learns from videos to turn an image into a controllable virtual world.
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