Shane Legg
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Shane Legg is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between July 01, 2022 and January 18, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “Co-founder Shane Legg says that “maybe we will have an AGI in a decade""; “DeepMind was co-founded by Shane Legg”; “Everyone except Shane Legg was wrong about [deep learning] prospects & timing”. It most often appears alongside DeepMind, Demis Hassabis, EA Forum.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 3
- Issue count: 3
- First seen: July 01, 2022
- Last seen: January 18, 2024
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Related Pages
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- DeepMind (3 shared issues)
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- Demis Hassabis (2 shared issues)
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- EA Forum (2 shared issues)
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- Elon Musk (2 shared issues)
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- FDA (2 shared issues)
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- GPT-3 (2 shared issues)
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- OpenAI (2 shared issues)
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- Republicans (2 shared issues)
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- Terence Tao (2 shared issues)
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- Texas (2 shared issues)
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- 80,000 Hours (1 shared issues)
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- 80,000 Hours’ Guide To Working In AI Policy And Strategy (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
4: DeepMind on AGI (podcast transcript). Co-founder Shane Legg says that "maybe we will have an AGI in a decade". Other co-founder Demis Hassabis says "I wouldn't be super surprised in the next decade or two." Hassabis also reveals that he's asked Terence Tao about working on AI alignment (no sign Tao is interested).
Inline links: DeepMind on AGI
DeepMind was co-founded by Shane Legg, a very early AI safety proponent who did his 2007 PhD thesis on superintelligence
DeepMind was co-founded by Shane Legg, a very early AI safety proponent who did his 2007 PhD thesis on superintelligence …and by Demis Hassabis, who has said things like:
Inline links: said things like
9: Related: Gwern discusses the history of the early-2010s neural net revolution. “Everyone except Shane Legg was wrong about [deep learning] prospects & timing, and even Legg was wrong about important things, [which is why] DeepMind is now on the hindfoot.”