The Arrival of AGI with Shane Legg (co-founder of DeepMind)

from Google DeepMind: The Podcast · host Hannah Fry, Shane Legg

Further readingLevels of AGI paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.02462The road to AGI (Google DeepMind Podcast, S2): https://youtu.be/Uy4OYU7PQYAThanks to everyone who made this possible, including but not limited to: Presenter: Professor Hannah FrySeries Producer: Dan HardoonEditor: Rami Tzabar Commissioner & Producer: Emma YousifMusic composition: Eleni ShawAudio engineer: Richard Courtice Please leave us a review on Spotify or Apple Podcasts if you enjoyed this episode. We always want to hear from our audience whether that's in the form of feedback, new idea or a guest recommendation!   Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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Shane Legg, Chief AGI Scientist and co-founder of Google DeepMind, has been talking about artificial general intelligence, or AGI, for more than a decade. So what’s changed? According to Shane, now is the time to take it seriously. In this episode, Shane walks Professor Hannah Fry through his AGI framework, breaking down the levels from minimal to full AGI, and his timelines for each. They discuss the economic and societal shifts AGI will bring, the potential impact on work, and the extraordinary possibilities for human flourishing.

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