Hassabis now puts AGI two to three years away
Original title: Deepmind founder Hassabis shortens AGI timeline from five to two to three years
Earlier this year he said three to five years; he also wants a government-controlled board to vet models before release.
Demis Hassabis told the Wall Street Journal he now thinks AGI, defined as matching the full cognitive range of the human brain, could arrive within two to three years. Earlier this year he had said three to five years. His proposed test is whether a system trained only on pre-1901 knowledge could reproduce Einstein's 1905 papers. Since leaving Google DeepMind he has focused on drug-discovery spin-off Isomorphic Labs, and he has pitched an industry-funded, government-controlled board to review models before release.
Unconfirmed: The shortened timeline is Hassabis's estimate, not a published Google forecast.
- Hassabis said bad regulation is worse than none.
- He compared AGI's impact to ten times the industrial revolution at ten times the speed.
- His current work focus, the article says, is Isomorphic Labs.
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Demis Hassabis keeps moving up his AGI timeline. The Nobel laureate and former Google Deepmind CEO now expects artificial general intelligence within two to three years, down from three to five years earlier this year. The article Deepmind founder Hassabis shortens AGI timeline from five to two to three years appeared first on The Decoder.
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