Sergey Brin: "Final Race to AGI" - Google Must "Turbocharge" Gemini Efforts
Google co-founder Sergey Brin calls for increased AI development efforts, stating "final race to AGI is afoot" in a memo to the Gemini team.
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Sergey Brin: "Final Race to AGI" - Google Must "Turbocharge" Gemini Efforts
At I/O 2024 last May, Demis Hassabis reiterated that DeepMind’s goal is “building AGI: Artificial general intelligence, a system that has human-level cognitive capabilities.” This week, Google co-founder Sergey Brin said that “the final race to A.G.I. is afoot.” Image:Google The New York Times reported on an internal memo sent by Sergey Brin to the Gemini team on Wednesday. Since early 2023, Brin has been taking a more active role in Google’s AI division. “Competition has accelerated immensely and the final race to A.G.I. is afoot,” he wrote. “I think we have all the ingredients to win this race, but we are going to have to turbocharge our efforts.” In terms of “ingredients,” Brin said the Gemini team has to be the “most efficient coders and A.I. scientists in the world by using our own A.I.” He highlighted the need for Google’s employees to use more of its A.I. for coding, saying the A.I.’s improving itself would lead to A.G.I…
