Downstream: God-Like AI Is Closer Than You Think w/ Ian Hogarth

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Downstream: God-Like AI Is Closer Than You Think w/ Ian Hogarth

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May 22, 2023

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Ian Hogarth has invested in more than 50 artificial intelligence companies and is co-author of the annual State of AI report. And he’s worried. Not only about the disruptive consequences of machine learning for human employment, but about the potential rise of an ‘AGI’: artificial general intelligence. For Hogarth, the prospect of a machine able […]

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May 22, 2023

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Downstream: God-Like AI Is Closer Than You Think w/ Ian Hogarth

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