DeepMind CEO Says AGI Will Be Bigger Than Electricity or Fire

Demis Hassabis says artificial general intelligence is only a few years away and proposes a new U.S. standards body to test frontier AI models before release.
Source: decrypt.co

Demis Hassabis says artificial general intelligence is only a few years away and proposes a new U.S. standards body to test frontier AI models before release.
Source: decrypt.co
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