Deepmind's Hassabis sees humanity "in the foothills of the singularity" while LeCun says current AI isn't intelligent
Yann LeCun says current AI systems aren't genuinely intelligent. Demis Hassabis thinks humanity is already "standing in the foothills of the singularity." And Gemini co-lead Oriol Vinyals splits the difference: today's models would've looked like AGI seven years ago, but they still can't learn from experience or produce real breakthroughs.<br /> The article Deepmind's Hassabis sees humanity "in the foothills of the singularity" while LeCun says current AI isn't intelligent appeared first on The Decoder. [...]
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