Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis makes his stand clear on AI scaling – The Times of India

The debate over how far AI scaling laws can take the industry is intensifying in Silicon Valley, and Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis has made his position unmistakably clear. As reported by Business Insider, speaking at the Axios AI+ Summit in San Francisco, Hassabis said that scaling current systems must be pushed to the maximum, calling it a critical path towards artificial general intelligence (AGI). “The scaling of the current systems, we must push that to the maximum, because at the minimum, it will be a key component of the final AGI system. It could be the entirety of the AGI system,” Hassabis told the audience.AGI is still a theoretical form of AI which is capable of reasoning as well as humans. AGI is also the ultimate goal for leading AI companies that are driving billions in spending on infrastructure and talent. Scaling laws suggest that the more data and compute an AI model receives, the smarter it becomes.

Limits of scaling

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