Google DeepMind launches the DeepMind Institute to debate AGI
“This is a critical moment to ensure we build AGI safely and its benefits to society far outweigh any risks,” wrote the three directors of the new DeepMind Institute.
Google DeepMind has launched the DeepMind Institute, or DMI, a platform for research and debate on artificial general intelligence, according to its launch essay.
Its directors are Shane Legg, co-founder and Chief AGI Scientist at Google DeepMind, and Demis Hassabis, the lab’s co-founder and chair. Hassabis is also Alphabet’s chief scientist. The third director is James Manyika, Google’s president of research, labs, technology and society.
Legg is also the managing editor. The institute says its pieces reflect their authors’ ideas and “should not be read as Google’s official view.”
What the institute says
The launch essay defines AGI as a system that shows all the cognitive capabilities of the human brain. It says today’s systems still fail at some basic...
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