Deepmind CEO Dennis Fires Back at Yann Lecun on Generality
Deepmind CEO Demis Hassabis responds to Yann Lecun's claims that general intelligence is an illusion, arguing that brains and AI foundation models are capable of general learning.
Why it matters
This debate between two prominent AI leaders highlights the ongoing discussion around the nature and feasibility of general intelligence.
Key Points
- 1Demis Hassabis disagrees with Yann Lecun's view that general intelligence is an illusion
- 2Hassabis argues that brains and AI systems are approximate Turing Machines capable of general learning
- 3Specialization is necessary in practical systems, but the underlying architecture can be general
- 4Hassabis points to human achievements like chess as evidence of the brain's general capabilities
Details
Demis Hassabis, the CEO of Deepmind, has fired back at Yann Lecun's claims that general intelligence is an illusion. Hassabis argues that brains and AI foundation models are in fact extremely general, capable of learning anything computable given enough time, memory and data. He acknowledges that practical systems require some degree of specialization, but maintains that the underlying architecture can be general in the Turing Machine sense. Hassabis points to human achievements like the invention of chess as evidence that the brain is a remarkably general system, even if it is not strictly optimal. He contends that Lecun is confusing general intelligence with universal intelligence, and that the concept of general intelligence is not 'complete BS' as Lecun had claimed.
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