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Google DeepMind’s Hassabis: AGI is 3 to 4 years away – Sherwood News
https://sherwood.news/tech/google-deepminds-hassabis-agi-is-3-to-4-years-away/
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says we’re in the ‘foothills of the singularity’ I sat down with him to talk about what that means, curing every disease, and human meaning post-AGI: 0:00 Intro 0:45 What Demis is most excited about at I/O 1:46 Have AGI timelines shifted? 3:30
https://x.com/rowancheung/status/2059307613485940950
.@gwern almost thinks there’s no such thing as general intelligence. Humans and AIs just learn a large number of individual specialized tricks. In any given situation we’re doing search over special cases, nothing more. What matters is just the number of individual tricks that
https://x.com/dwarkesh_sp/status/2059755945530622100
Opinion | A.I. Is a Job Creator – The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/opinion/ai-job-crisis-goldman-sachs.html
New blackboard lecture w @reinerpope How do chips actually work – starting with basic logic gates, and working up to why GPUs, TPUs, FPGAs, and the human brain each look the way they do. 0:00:00 – Building a multiply-accumulate from logic gates 0:16:20 – Muxes and the cost of
https://x.com/dwarkesh_sp/status/2057857033659937220
.@reinerpope’s new blackboard lecture goes all the way down: how AI training and inference are built up from logic gates on silicon. He walks me through a 4-bit multiply-accumulate by hand, and shows how that primitive is the foundation for the matrix multiplies in training
https://x.com/dwarkesh_sp/status/2057899696723771470
The lesson @patio11 wants the tech industry to take from covid: get better at interfacing with government. The tech industry’s response to government failures is, “”This is going terribly, I hope someone fixes it.”” But people in government all-too-often say exactly the same
https://x.com/dwarkesh_sp/status/2059302921393828210
I had a wonderful time chatting with Kanishka Rao (Director, Robotics, Google DeepMind) and @_albertorod_ (Director of Robot Behavior, Atlas, Boston Dynamics) at Google I/O.
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2057500556609093793
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