{"id":1235889,"date":"2025-02-28T12:33:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T17:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1235889"},"modified":"2025-02-28T12:33:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T17:33:00","slug":"deepmind-ceo-says-agi-definition-has-been-watered-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1235889","title":{"rendered":"DeepMind CEO Says AGI Definition Has Been &#8216;Watered Down&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says the definition of artificial general intelligence is being &#8220;watered down,&#8221; creating an illusion of faster progress toward this technological milestone. &#8220;There&#8217;s quite a long way, in my view, before we get to AGI,&#8221; Hassabis said. &#8220;The timelines are shrinking because the definition of AGI is being watered down, in my opinion.&#8221; DeepMind defines AGI as &#8220;AI systems that are at least as capable as humans at most cognitive tasks,&#8221; while OpenAI has historically described it as a &#8220;highly autonomous system that outperforms humans at most economically valuable work.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently declared his team is &#8220;confident we know how to build AGI,&#8221; while modifying his personal definition to an AI &#8220;system that can tackle increasingly complex problems, at human level, in many fields.&#8221; Hassabis suggested industry hype might be financially motivated: &#8220;There is a lot of hype for various reasons,&#8221; he said, including perhaps &#8220;that people need to raise money.&#8221; Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella separately dismissed AGI milestones as &#8220;nonsensical benchmark hacking,&#8221; preferring economic impact measurements.<\/p>\n<div class=\"share_submission\" style=\"position:relative;\">\n<a class=\"slashpop\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=DeepMind+CEO+Says+AGI+Definition+Has+Been+'Watered+Down'%3A+https%3A%2F%2Fslashdot.org%2Fstory%2F25%2F02%2F28%2F1739242%2F%3Futm_source%3Dtwitter%26utm_medium%3Dtwitter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/twitter_icon_large-341.png\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"slashpop\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fslashdot.org%2Fstory%2F25%2F02%2F28%2F1739242%2Fdeepmind-ceo-says-agi-definition-has-been-watered-down%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/facebook_icon_large-256.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/slashdot.org\/story\/25\/02\/28\/1739242\/deepmind-ceo-says-agi-definition-has-been-watered-down?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed\">Read more of this story<\/a> at Slashdot.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/slashdot.org\/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=23623621&amp;smallembed=1\" style=\"height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says the definition of artificial general intelligence is being &#8220;watered down,&#8221; creating an illusion of faster progress toward this technological milestone. &#8220;There&#8217;s quite a long way, in my view, before we get to AGI,&#8221; Hassabis &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1235889\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,44,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1235889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slashdot","category-technology","category-unfiltered-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1235889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1235889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1235889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1235889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}