AGI is an Engineering Problem - by Jason Hausenloy
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Until this decade, artificial general intelligence was a scientific problem.
AGI is an Engineering Problem Jason Hausenloy Jan 17, 2025 23 2 Share Until this decade, artificial general intelligence was a scientific problem. The main ideas to build it were missing. In 1999, Shane Legg (cofounder of Google DeepMind), predicted we’d build AGI in 2028 based on extrapolations of compute power trends. His prescience on reinforcement learning is remarkable, but the vision was necessarily fuzzy. This is no longer the case. Sam Altman announced recently: We are now confident we know how to build AGI as we have traditionally understood it...[w]e are beginning to turn our aim bey
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