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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The Scaling Hypothesis — Gwern
Essay arguing that scaling up neural networks — more data, compute and parameters — may be sufficient to reach general intelligence, without fundamentally new algorithms. Written by researcher and essayist Gwern Branwen.
Why this: Also about AGI
Google DeepMind Engineer Quits, Saying His Chip Work Could Speed Up AI
Robert O'Callahan explains why he left DeepMind: his tools could make AI cheaper and faster, and he sees the risks as uncertain but serious enough to change his work.
Why this: Also about DeepMind
Mustafa Suleyman
Site of the DeepMind co-founder now running Microsoft AI, with his writing on AI and containment.
Why this: Also about DeepMind
Anca Dragan
Berkeley faculty page for Anca Dragan, robotics and human-AI interaction researcher who also leads AI safety and alignment work at Google DeepMind.
Why this: Also about DeepMind