The Arrival of AGI with Shane Legg (co-founder of DeepMind)

About this episode

Shane Legg discusses the evolution and implications of artificial general intelligence with Hannah Fry.

Shane Legg, Chief AGI Scientist and co-founder of Google DeepMind, has been talking about artificial general intelligence, or AGI, for more than a decade. So what’s changed? According to Shane, now is the time to take it seriously. In this episode, Shane walks Professor Hannah Fry through his AGI framework, breaking down the levels from minimal to full AGI, and his timelines for each. They discuss the economic and societal shifts AGI will bring, the potential impact on work, and the extraordinary possibilities for human flourishing.

People in this episode

Host: Hannah Fry

Guest: Shane Legg

Topics covered

• artificial intelligence
• AGI framework
• economic impact
• societal shifts
• human flourishing

Keywords

• AGI
• Shane Legg
• Hannah Fry
• DeepMind
• artificial intelligence
• economic shifts
• societal impact

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Google DeepMind, DeepMind

Books & works: artificial general intelligence

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