They’re still underground, with Shane Legg and at least a dozen other people on board. The company is called “Deep Mind” these days, and it’s being developed as a games company. It’s one of the most significant AGI projects I know of, merely because Shane and Demis are highly competent and approaching AGI by one of the more tractable paths (e.g. not AIXI or Goedel machines). Shane predicts AGI in a mere ten years—in part, I suspect, because he plans to build it himself.
I wouldn’t endorse their significance the same way, and would stand by my statement that although the AGI field as a whole has perceptible risk, no individual project that I know of has perceptible risk. Shane and Demis are cool, but they ain’t that cool.
Right. I should have clarified that by “one of the most significant AGI projects I know of” I meant “has a very tiny probability of FOOMing in the next 15 years, which is greater than the totally negligible probability of FOOMing in the next 15 years posed by Juergen Schmidhuber.”
I am in general willing to make bets against anyone producing an artificial human-level intelligence (for a sufficiently well-defined unpacking of that term) in ten years. If I win, great, I win the bet. If I lose, great, we have artificial human-level intelligence.
No public reference to his start-up that I can find.
They’re still underground, with Shane Legg and at least a dozen other people on board. The company is called “Deep Mind” these days, and it’s being developed as a games company. It’s one of the most significant AGI projects I know of, merely because Shane and Demis are highly competent and approaching AGI by one of the more tractable paths (e.g. not AIXI or Goedel machines). Shane predicts AGI in a mere ten years—in part, I suspect, because he plans to build it himself.
Acquiring such facts is another thing SI does.
I wouldn’t endorse their significance the same way, and would stand by my statement that although the AGI field as a whole has perceptible risk, no individual project that I know of has perceptible risk. Shane and Demis are cool, but they ain’t that cool.
Right. I should have clarified that by “one of the most significant AGI projects I know of” I meant “has a very tiny probability of FOOMing in the next 15 years, which is greater than the totally negligible probability of FOOMing in the next 15 years posed by Juergen Schmidhuber.”
I am willing to make a bet that there will be no AGI in 10 years created by this company.
I am in general willing to make bets against anyone producing an artificial human-level intelligence (for a sufficiently well-defined unpacking of that term) in ten years. If I win, great, I win the bet. If I lose, great, we have artificial human-level intelligence.
Googling for “hassabis legg deepmind” seems to reveal that Jaan Tallinn is also one of the directors there.
Huh. Yeah, he seems to just be a researcher at the Gatsby Institute, which is partially industry-funded, but not VC-funded.