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Meatbags vs machines: DeepMind plans hackathon to draw line between human and AI brains

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What exactly is AGI? Nobody knows, but Google's AI lab is asking for help trying to define it

If a bot actually achieved artificial general intelligence (AGI), how would we even know? Google DeepMind boffins have come up with what they say is an empirical, scientifically grounded framework to measure progress toward AGI, and they're looking for a few good devs to actually flesh it out. …

Brandon Vigliarolo

AI for software developers is in a 'dangerous state'

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Strong forces tempting humans out of the AI loop, and reducing the experience needed to supervise and review

QCon London  AI is in a dangerous state where it is too useful not to use, but where by using it, developers are giving up the experience they need to review what it does, said a speaker at QCon London, a vendor-neutral developer conference underway this week.…

Tim Anderson