# Jack of All Trades, Master of Some, a Multi-Purpose Transformer Agent

DevFeed: [Jack of All Trades, Master of Some, a Multi-Purpose Transformer Agent](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/jack-of-all-trades-master-of-some-a-multi-purpose-transformer-agent-7296.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://huggingface.co/blog/jat>)

Author: Quentin Gallouédec; Edward Beeching; Clément ROMAC; Thomas Wolf

Published: 2024-04-22T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Hugging Face - Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/hugging-face-blog.md>)

Topics: [Transformer](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/transformer.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [datasets](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/datasets.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/machine-learning-artificial-intelligence.md>), [Embeddings](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/embeddings.md>)

Tags: [agent](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agent.md>), [architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/architecture.md>), [datasets](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/datasets.md>), [embeddings](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/embeddings.md>), [games](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/games.md>), [generalist](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/generalist.md>), [imitation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/imitation.md>), [model](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/model.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [rl](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/rl.md>), [train](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/train.md>), [transformers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/transformers.md>)

## AI overview

The article introduces Jack of All Trades (JAT), an open-source project for training a generalist multimodal Transformer agent. It describes the JAT dataset, expert reinforcement-learning agents, and a model that can handle tasks including video games, robot control, command execution, and navigation.

## Source excerpt

We're on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.