{"id":175537,"date":"2023-11-06T22:42:42","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T04:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/google-ai-chief-says-theres-a-50-chance-well-hit-agi-in-just-5-years"},"modified":"2023-11-06T22:42:42","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T04:42:42","slug":"google-ai-chief-says-theres-a-50-chance-well-hit-agi-in-just-5-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/google-ai-chief-says-theres-a-50-chance-well-hit-agi-in-just-5-years","title":{"rendered":"Google AI Chief Says There\u2019s a 50% Chance We\u2019ll Hit AGI in Just 5 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-ai-chief-says-theres-a-50-chance-well-hit-agi-in-just-5-years2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More than a decade ago, the co-founder of Google\u2019s DeepMind artificial intelligence lab predicted that by 2028, AI will have a half-and-half shot of being about as smart as humans \u2014 and now, he\u2019s holding firm on that forecast.<\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dwarkeshpatel.com\/p\/shane-legg#details\" class=\"\">interview with tech podcaster Dwarkesh Patel<\/a>, DeepMind co-founder Shane Legg said that he still thinks that researchers have a 50\u201350 chance of achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), a stance he publicly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vetta.org\/2011\/12\/goodbye-2011-hello-2012\/\" class=\"\">announced at the very end of 2011 on his blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a notable prediction considering the exponentially growing interest in the space. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has long advocated for an AGI, a hypothetical agent that is capable of accomplishing intellectual tasks as well as a human, that can be of benefit to all. But whether we\u2019ll ever be able to get to that point \u2014 let alone <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/openai-core-values-agi\" class=\"\">agree on one definition of AGI<\/a> \u2014 remains to be seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than a decade ago, the co-founder of Google\u2019s DeepMind artificial intelligence lab predicted that by 2028, AI will have a half-and-half shot of being about as smart as humans \u2014 and now, he\u2019s holding firm on that forecast. In an interview with tech podcaster Dwarkesh Patel, DeepMind co-founder Shane Legg said that he still [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}