alt Hacker NewsHassabis is a genuine prodigy and genius by any measure you would care to pick. Unlike a handful of others supposed tech leaders I can think of.
Just how smart? "A few short years" sounds like someone smart enough to know how to make a safe prediction.
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khurs • today at 3:41 PM
More so, as he put the word probably in too.
>"...probably only a few short years away."
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But even geniuses make mistakes. For example, Demis bet hard against language having any sort of real impact in AI research. So hard in fact that DeepMind nearly had its language research team walk out on them as they were about to be labelled as "applied". Now, to be fair, once the evidence was mounting that large language models rather than pure reinforcement learning was the way forward Demis and DeepMind changed course and has been great at catching up. However, it is important to remember that no person is infallible.