{"id":193024,"date":"2024-07-16T07:22:28","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T12:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/current-ais-only-have-the-iq-level-of-a-cat-asserts-google-deepmind-ceo"},"modified":"2024-07-16T07:22:28","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T12:22:28","slug":"current-ais-only-have-the-iq-level-of-a-cat-asserts-google-deepmind-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/current-ais-only-have-the-iq-level-of-a-cat-asserts-google-deepmind-ceo","title":{"rendered":"Current AIs only have the IQ level of a cat, asserts Google DeepMind CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/current-ais-only-have-the-iq-level-of-a-cat-asserts-google-deepmind-ceo2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The CEO of <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/tag\/google\" data-auto-tag-linker=\"true\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/tag\/google\">Google<\/a> DeepMind has compared the IQ levels of contemporary artificial intelligence (AI) agents to domestic cats. \u201cWe\u2019re still not even at cat intelligence yet, as a general system,\u201d remarked Hassabis, answering a question about DeepMind\u2019s progress in artificial general intelligence (AGI). However, research is progressing fast, with some huge cash and compute investments propelling it forward. Some expect it to eclipse human intelligence in the next half-decade.<\/p>\n<p>Demis Hassabis, the co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, made the artificial intelligence vs. cat IQ comparison in a <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.institute.global\/future-of-britain-conference-2024\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.institute.global\/future-of-britain-conference-2024\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\">public discussion<\/a> with Tony Blair, one of Britain\u2019s ex-Prime Ministers. The talk was part of the Future of Britain Conference 2024, organized by the Institute for Global Change.<\/p>\n<p>Hassabis highlights that his work is not focused on AI but on AGI. It gives us more perspective on how he is looking at the computer vs cat comparison. Yes, a contemporary AI can sometimes write, paint, or make music in a convincingly human-like fashion, but an ordinary house cat has a lot more general intelligence. \u201cAt the moment, we\u2019re far from Human-level intelligence across the board,\u201d admitted Hassabis. \u201cBut in certain areas like games playing [AI is] better than the best people in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CEO of Google DeepMind has compared the IQ levels of contemporary artificial intelligence (AI) agents to domestic cats. \u201cWe\u2019re still not even at cat intelligence yet, as a general system,\u201d remarked Hassabis, answering a question about DeepMind\u2019s progress in artificial general intelligence (AGI). However, research is progressing fast, with some huge cash and compute [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":697,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-arts","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193024","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\/697"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}