Shane Legg
DeepMind co-founder who helped popularise the term AGI
A co-founder and chief scientist of Google DeepMind, and one of the people who helped put “artificial general intelligence” into common use in the early 2000s.
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AGI Timeline: What CEOs Need to Know
Boston Consulting Group briefing on how corporate leaders should think about when artificial general intelligence might arrive and what to do about it. Described from the title — the publisher's page would not let our reader in.
Why this: Also about AGI
From AGI to ASI (Google DeepMind)
A Google DeepMind report on how AI might keep developing after human-level AGI, focusing on the transition to artificial general superintelligence and grounding it in the theory of Universal AI.
Why this: Also about AGI
The TESCREAL Bundle: Eugenics and the Promise of Utopia through Artificial General Intelligence
Open-access paper by Timnit Gebru and Émile P. Torres (First Monday, April 2024) arguing that the drive to build AGI is rooted in the Anglo-American eugenics tradition, and urging researchers to work on defined tasks that can be tested for safety.
Why this: Also about AGI
Mustafa Suleyman
Site of the DeepMind co-founder now running Microsoft AI, with his writing on AI and containment.
Why this: Also about DeepMind