DeepMind researcher claims new AI could lead to AGI, says 'game is over'

According to Doctor Nando de Freitas, a lead researcher at Google's DeepMind, humanity is apparently on the verge of solving artificial general intelligence (AGI) within our lifetimes. In response to an opinion piece penned by yours truly, the scientist posted a thread on Twitter that began with what's perhaps the boldest statement we've seen from anyone at DeepMind concerning its current progress toward AGI: It's about making these models bigger, safer, compute efficient, faster at sampling, smarter memory, more modalities, INNOVATIVE DATA, on/offline, … 1/N https://t.co/UJxSLZGc71 It's about making these models bigger, safer, compute efficient, faster at sampling, smarter memory, more modalities, INNOVATIVE DATA, on/offline, … 1/N Solving these scaling challenges is what will deliver AGI. Research focused on these problems, eg S4 for greater memory, is needed. Rich Sutton is right too, but the AI lesson ain't bitter but rather sweet.