Shane Legg

If those researchers just wanted to work on AGI, they could have just joined DeepMind because a year before that offer from Sam Wattman, Demis Hassabis was doing interviews talking about how they're working on artificial general intelligence.

Or here's an article from a year before that in which the co-founder of DeepMind, Shane Legg, says that they are working on creating AGI by 2030.

No, the pitch was that OpenAI were going to create AGI and have it be controlled by a non-profit.

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Let's dive in.

So first and foremost, Shane Legg, one of the co-founders of Google DeepMind or DeepMind, and then that later became Google DeepMind.

We've covered some of his recent quotes that he said in interviews on podcasts.

He's basically saying that, you know, we had this system for a long time.

You would go and hunt.

And in return, you would kind of get some resources, food, a place by the campfire, whatever.

So Shane Legg is saying basically, and he's not really mincing words, he's saying AGI, when it comes, will likely break that system.

It'll disrupt it.

These are the authors.

Shane Legg, the co-founder of Google DeepMind is on there.

Just, just keep that in mind.

Flashbang.

Therefore, as they're saying here, taking all of this together, we believe that the possibility of cruising past AGI into ASI territory within the next decade or two cannot be dismissed easily.

So there's still a lot of people out there, some of them with very impressive backgrounds, that still to this day are completely dismissing all of these ideas.

Meanwhile, here are the researchers at Google DeepMind, Shane Legg, Demis Hassabis.

He's not on this paper, but he's saying a lot of the same stuff we're reading here.

In fact, you know, at some level, if you'd gone back to, you know, the, the now famous Dartmouth conference in 1956 where the term AI first came into being, and if you actually read the defin- what the, the, the scientists who got together at Dartmouth in 1956 were trying to do, it was a-- if you read that with a modern eye, you'd say, oh, that sounds like a definition of AGI, even though they didn't name it, uh, that.

And the term AGI itself, I think one of the people who was a big popularizer of that term was actually my colleague Shane Legg back in 2001 or 2002, where he first tried to talk about that.

And that was initially as, as a way to distinguish that between, uh, a more general kind of intelligence and set of capabilities compared to more narrow systems that we were building at the time, whether it's for natural language processing or this, that, or vision, machine vision.

So that was an attempt to describe a general set of capabilities.

Along the way, we'll glimpse the new ChatGPT update that I'm really excited about, an executive order on FLOPS, and what happens when you activate representations of happiness in a model.

But first, on timelines to AGI, that's the kind of artificial intelligence that can replicate human intelligence or go further, here is Shane Legg, co-founder of Google DeepMind and their chief AGI scientist.

He's going to reiterate a prediction he made over a decade ago.

It's really interesting that in, um, 2009 you had a blog post-

The DeepMind Institute was recently set up.

The guys behind DeepMind, including a Kiwi, Dr. Shane Legg, one of the co-founders of DeepMind, did some very thoughtful essays last week on exactly that point is how do we test these things properly? And they're calling for, sure, submit your frontier model for uh you know on a voluntary basis initially but calling for basically a body that is set up where all frontier models have to be vetted i guess the question is and this is the pushback from trump and others is that you know nobody is going to have as good an understanding of these models as the companies that are creating them how do we deal with that criticism

Yeah, yeah.

I mean, I think you do just need to set up the government or third party capacity to audit the companies.

Ele forma uma chamada Gangue dos Três.

Tem um cara que chama Shane Legg, que tu-- vai trabalhar com ele durante muito tempo.

Ééé, e o Mustafa Suleyman, que é um cara completamente diferente, um filósofo, um cara que vem mais das ciências humanas, né?

Sim.