Home Speakers Shane Legg Quote The way I think about it is this: to have a profoundly ethical AI system, it also has to be very, very capable.
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More from Shane Legg Podcast Dwarkesh Podcast: 2028 AGI, superhuman alignment, new architectures Oct 26, 2023
And so, yeah, I think there's a 50% chance that we have AGI by 2028. Podcast Dwarkesh Podcast: 2028 AGI, superhuman alignment, new architectures Oct 26, 2023
I think we can start training models now with the scale of the data that is beyond what a human can experience in a lifetime. So I think this is the first unlocking step. Podcast Dwarkesh Podcast: 2028 AGI, superhuman alignment, new architectures Oct 26, 2023
I'm sure what's going to happen is we’re going to get to 2029 and someone's going to say, “Shane, you were wrong.” Podcast Dwarkesh Podcast: 2028 AGI, superhuman alignment, new architectures Oct 26, 2023
When I say AGI, I mean a machine that can do the sorts of cognitive things that people can typically do, possibly more.
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The race is not a law of nature: it is the product of choices, choices made by the companies themselves. About this quote Said by Shane Legg, Chief AGI Scientist, Google DeepMind Where Dwarkesh Podcast: 2028 AGI, superhuman alignment, new architectures Topics Safety Company Source dwarkesh.com/p/shane-legg A quote is one moment, not the whole argument. Read it in context at the source.
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