{"id":28400,"date":"2025-05-23T11:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T11:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=28400"},"modified":"2025-05-23T11:28:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T11:28:12","slug":"the-man-who-a-g-i-pilled-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=28400","title":{"rendered":"The Man Who \u2018A.G.I.-Pilled\u2019 Google"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A few years ago, most Google executives didn\u2019t talk about A.G.I. \u2014 artificial general intelligence, the industry term for a human-level A.I. system. Even if they thought A.G.I. might be technically possible, the idea seemed so remote that it was barely worth discussing.<\/p>\n

But this week, at Google\u2019s annual developer conference<\/a>, A.G.I. was in the air. The company announced a slate of new releases tied to Google\u2019s Gemini A.I. models, including new features designed to let users write A.I.-generated emails, create A.I.-generated videos and songs, and chat with an A.I. bot on the flagship search engine. Google\u2019s leaders traded guesses about when more powerful systems might arrive. And they predicted profound changes ahead, as A.I. tools become more capable and autonomous.<\/p>\n

The man most responsible for making Google \u201cA.G.I.-pilled\u201d \u2014 industry shorthand for the way people can become gripped by the notion that A.G.I. is imminent \u2014 is Demis Hassabis.<\/p>\n

Mr. Hassabis, the chief executive of Google DeepMind, has been dreaming of A.G.I. for years. When he joined Google in 2014 through the acquisition of DeepMind, the artificial intelligence start-up he co-founded, Mr. Hassabis was one of a handful of A.I. leaders taking the possibility of A.G.I. seriously.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Today, he is one of a growing number of tech leaders racing to build A.G.I. \u2014 as well as other A.I. products that fall short of general intelligence but are impressive in their own right. Last year, Mr. Hassabis and his Google DeepMind colleague, John M. Jumper, received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry<\/a> for their work on AlphaFold, an A.I. system capable of predicting the three-dimensional structures of proteins.<\/p>\n

This week on \u201cHard Fork,\u201d we interviewed Mr. Hassabis about his views on A.G.I. and the strange futures that might follow its arrival. You can listen to our conversation by clicking the \u201cPlay\u201d button below or by following the show on Apple<\/a>, Spotify<\/a>, Amazon<\/a>, YouTube<\/a>, iHeartRadio<\/a> or wherever you get your podcasts. Or, if you prefer to read, you\u2019ll find an edited transcript of our conversation, which begins about 23 minutes into the podcast, below.<\/p>\n

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A few years ago, most Google executives didn\u2019t talk about A.G.I. \u2014 artificial general intelligence, the industry term for a human-level A.I. system. Even if they thought A.G.I. might be technically possible, the idea seemed so remote that it was barely worth discussing.But this week, at Google\u2019s annual developer conference, A.G.I. was in the air. The company announced a slate of new releases tied to Google\u2019s Gemini A.I. models, including new features designed to let users write A.I.-generated emails, create A.I.-generated videos and songs, and chat with an A.I. bot on the flagship search engine. Google\u2019s leaders traded guesses about when more powerful systems might arrive. And they predicted profound changes ahead, as A.I. tools become more capable and autonomous.The man most responsible for making Google \u201cA.G.I.-pilled\u201d \u2014 industry shorthand for the way people can become gripped by the notion that A.G.I. is imminent \u2014 is Demis Hassabis.Mr. Hassabis, the chief executive of Google DeepMind, has been dreaming of A.G.I. for years. When he joined Google in 2014 through the acquisition of DeepMind, the artificial intelligence start-up he co-founded, Mr. Hassabis was one of a handful of A.I. leaders taking the possibility of A.G.I. seriously.Today, he is one of a growing number of tech leaders racing to build A.G.I. \u2014 as well as other A.I. products that fall short of general intelligence but are impressive in their own right. Last year, Mr. Hassabis and his Google DeepMind colleague, John M. Jumper, received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on AlphaFold, an A.I. system capable of predicting the three-dimensional structures of proteins.This week on \u201cHard Fork,\u201d we interviewed Mr. Hassabis about his views on A.G.I. and the strange futures that might follow its arrival. You can listen to our conversation by clicking the \u201cPlay\u201d button below or by following the show on Apple, Spotify, Amazon, YouTube, iHeartRadio or wherever you get your podcasts. Or, if you prefer to read, you\u2019ll find an edited transcript of our conversation, which begins about 23 minutes into the podcast, below.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28402,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28400"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28403,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28400\/revisions\/28403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}