They are simply looking to steer AI policy discussions. It's basically an in-house think tank. It has all the trappings, especially with ominous prognostications like:
Today’s AI systems have impressive capabilities and the rapid pace of innovation suggests we’re now approaching artificial general intelligence (AGI), a system that exhibits all the cognitive capabilities of the human brain.
Not sure we are anywhere close to all the cognitive capabilities of the human brain... not even a severely lobotomized one.Exactly how many cognitive capabilities are needed before it becomes a problem?
> They are simply looking to steer AI policy discussions. It's basically an in-house think tank.
For a guy who spent his life imagining and realising dreams in video games and cognitive abilities in artificial neural networks, it has to be very soul destroying for Demis to spend his time doing something as frivolous as this.
> Not sure we are anywhere close to all the cognitive capabilities of the human brain...
In which capabilities are AI not already close to or beyond that of a human brain?