DeepMind’s 145-page paper on AGI safety may not convince skeptics

Google DeepMind on Wednesday published an exhaustive paper on its safety approach to AGI, roughly defined…

A new, challenging AGI test stumps most AI models

The Arc Prize Foundation, a nonprofit co-founded by prominent AI researcher François Chollet, announced in a…

Eric Schmidt argues against a ‘Manhattan Project for AGI’

In a policy paper published Wednesday, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang,…

No part of Amazon is ‘unaffected’ by AI, says its head of AGI

“There’s scarcely a part of the company that is unaffected by AI,” said Vishal Sharma, Amazon’s…

Sergey Brin says RTO is key to Google winning the AGI race

Google co-founder Sergey Brin sent a memo to employees this week urging them to return to…

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admits that AI’s benefits may not be widely distributed

In a new essay on his personal blog, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the company is…

Sam Altman’s ousting from OpenAI has entered the cultural zeitgeist

The lights dimmed as five actors took their places around a table on a makeshift stage…

AI researcher François Chollet founds a new AI lab focused on AGI

François Chollet, an influential AI researcher, is launching a new startup that aims to build frontier…

AI researcher François Chollet is co-founding a nonprofit to build benchmarks for AGI

Former Google engineer and influential AI researcher François Chollet is co-founding a nonprofit to help develop…

OpenAI is beginning to turn its attention to ‘superintelligence’

In a post on his personal blog, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that he believes OpenAI…

OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever believes superintelligent AI will be ‘unpredictable’

OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever spoke on a range of topics at NeurIPS, the annual AI conference,…