Episode · Dwarkesh Podcast · 2023-10-26

Dwarkesh Patel & Shane Legg: books mentioned on Dwarkesh Podcast

Shane Legg (DeepMind Founder) — 2028 AGI, superhuman alignment, new architectures

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I had a lot of fun chatting with Shane Legg - Founder and Chief AGI Scientist, Google DeepMind! We discuss: * Why he expects AGI around 2028 * How to align superhuman models * What new architectures needed for AGI * Has Deepmind sped up capabilities or safety more?

Shane Legg discussed The age of spiritual machines by Ray Kurzweil.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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   The age of spiritual machines

   Ray Kurzweil · at 34:43

   The Age of Spiritual Machines by Ray Kurzweil is a speculative non-fiction work predicting the exponential trajectory of artificial intelligence, robotics, and the eventual convergence of human and machine intelligence.

   Discussed

   “I first formed those beliefs around 2001 after reading Ray Kurzweil's The Age of Spiritual Machines. There were two really important points in his book that I came to believe as true.”

   Shane Legg Shane Legg (DeepMind Founder) — 2028 AGI, superhuman alignment, new ar… 2023-10-26 Listen at 34:43

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