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Tech Giants, Stop Trying to Build Godlike AI


Nobody agrees on what it means and there’s no evidence it’ll benefit the world. Here’s a better North Star.

For all the buzz, the chatbot is only a prototype along the way to a loftier goal of AGI, or “artificial general intelligence” that surpasses the cognitive abilities of humans. Five years earlier, Demis Hassabis co-founded DeepMind Technologies Ltd., now Google’s core AI division, with the same AGI objective. Their reasons were utopian: AGI would create financialabundance and be “ broadly beneficial ” to humanity, according to Altman.

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