Hey, Siri, is it really game over for human intelligence?
A leading researcher at Google’s DeepMind claimed on Twitter that the AI game is effectively over. Creating Artificial General Intelligence – machines that can match or exceed human intelligence – is now just a matter of building bigger.
This follows yet another impressive DeepMind demo, this time of their new Gato system, which can do everything from stacking blocks and playing Atari games to captioning pictures and chatting with a human user.
Not everyone agrees that SkyNet is just around the corner:
“What DeepMind, OpenAI, and similar labs are doing is very important. It’s science at the cutting-edge.
“But to declare the game is over? To insinuate that AGI will arise from a system whose distinguishing contribution is how it serves models? Gato is amazing, but that feels like a stretch.“
Even without an AGI breakthrough, AI systems are getting very good.