- Published on November 14, 2024
- In AI Features
What is Nikhil Malhotra’s Dream AI?
Dream AI aspires to create agents that “dream” by simulating environments and learning with a nuanced understanding of context, instead of relying on vast datasets alone.
Image by Nalini Nirad
- By Mohit Pandey
AI is a compute-hungry beast, pushing companies to make better hardware and experiment with the existing system architectures to ease the load. In this bid, Nikhil Malhotra, the global head of Makers Lab at Tech Mahindra, coined the idea of ‘Dream AI’.
Deep Reinforced Engagement Model AI, or Dream AI, as Malhotra explains is an architecture combining symbolic AI with deep reinforcement learning, marking a shift from conventional models and addressing fundamental limitations of today’s AI. In his LinkedIn post, Malhotra pointed out three problems with current AI systems.
1. AI of today is just pattern recognition in a narrow domain. It’s not generalised.
2. Autoregressive LLMs are divergent. If they take on a state space, it’s very difficult to bring them back.
3. The
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Mohit Pandey
Mohit writes about AI in simple, explainable, and often funny words. He's especially passionate about chatting with those building AI for Bharat, with the occasional detour into AGI.
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