The DeepMind trio who built a poker AI, are now making money for quant hedge funds
EquiLibre Technologies, a Prague-based AI lab founded by three ex-DeepMind researchers is now valued at more than $500 million.
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Hassabis's stringent AGI criteria could redefine industry standards, challenging current claims and potentially delaying perceived AGI milestones. The post DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis outlines criteria for true AGI appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
Read full articleEquiLibre Technologies, a Prague-based AI lab founded by three ex-DeepMind researchers is now valued at more than $500 million.
Since 2017, Iason Gabriel has worked at the tech giant, trying to anticipate – and think through – the impact of AI. But as commercial and geopolitical pressures escalate, can ethicists make any difference? In 2017, a 33-year-old political philosopher named Iason Gabriel was told by a friend that he ought to apply for a job at DeepMind, the London-based subsidiary of Google where much of its AI research was concentrated. The suggestion was not an obvious one. Gabriel was a cheerful but intense junior academic with a passion for Vipassana meditation and what his brother calls “enthusiastic” rock climbing. The eldest son of a Greek management professor and a British documentary maker, Gabriel split his time between teaching and international development work. At the University of Oxford, where he was a fellow at St John’s College, Gabriel taught courses on political theory and wrote papers on the moral contortions of “yuppie ethics” and the ethical blind spots of effective altruism. When
AI's transformative potential in medicine and science may drive significant economic shifts, despite current market volatility and hype. The post DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis warns AI may be overhyped short-term, underappreciated long-term appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
A new paper from Google DeepMind argues that disagreements over whether AI is conscious could spill into politics, law, and public institutions.
John Jumper, who shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis for developing the AlphaFold protein-structure prediction model, has announced he is leaving DeepMind to join Anthropicafter nearly nine years at the company. Jumper had most recently been working on coding tools at DeepMind, an area Google has struggled to […]
Jumper isn't the only big name leaving Google DeepMind.
Sam Altman, Demis Hassabis and Dario Amodei are attending talks with Trump and other leaders regarding artificial intelligence.
G7's AI talks highlight the geopolitical push for tech sovereignty, impacting global innovation and regulatory landscapes. The post G7 leaders sit down with Sam Altman and Demis Hassabis to talk AI in France appeared first on Crypto Briefing.