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Seriously, What Is ‘Superintelligence’?
In this episode of “Uncanny Valley,” we talk about Meta’s recent investment in Scale AI and its move to build a superintelligence AI research lab. So we ask: What is superintelligence anyway?
We've seen a wave of this over the past 12 to 18 months where Microsoft and Google have also either made strategic investments or licensing agreements with smaller AI players in order to sort of bring them into the fold, but not necessarily face the scrutiny of the U.S government and the Justice Department, because they want to move fast here. And Demis Hassabis, the CEO of Google DeepMind, has reportedly told his staff that in his opinion, the industry could be up to a decade away from developing AGI, noting that there is a lot that AI simply can't do today. I mean, if you think about the type of people who are commanding these super high salaries, they have been paid very, very well for a number of years, maybe their company was acquired and they had a big payout from that, so now they're sitting comfortably in a position at Anthropic or at OpenAI.
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