Nick Bostrom: London's DeepMind is winning the global race to develop human-level artificial intelligence • /r/artificial

Nick Bostrom: London's DeepMind is winning the global race to develop human-level artificial intelligence (businessinsider.com) This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 75%. Nick Bostrom, one of the leading voices on artificial intelligence, has singled out London research lab DeepMind as the company closest to developing a system that can mimic human-level artificial intelligence - a target widely shared by those at the forefront of the AI industry. When asked who was leading the global AI race, Bostrom immediately responded with DeepMind. "Right now, I think here in London we have the DeepMind group who are, I think, the biggest [group] specifically focused on solving general intelligence," Bostrom told Business Insider at a breakfast meeting aboard the Sunbourn Yacht Hotel in East London on Wednesday.