Explore a groundbreaking unified model for AI tasks in this 49-minute talk presented by Jiasen Lu from AI2. Delve into Unified-IO, the first neural model capable of performing a wide range of tasks across computer vision, image synthesis, vision-and-language, and natural language processing. Learn how this model homogenizes diverse task inputs and outputs into token sequences, achieving broad unification. Discover the model's architecture, training objectives, dataset implementations, and pre-training distribution. Examine evaluation methods, including the GRIT benchmark, and analyze results across various tasks such as semantic segmentation, depth estimation, object detection, image inpainting, and segmentation-based image generation. Gain insights into the future of multi-modal AI models and their potential impact on the field.