‘We’re not at the moon yet’: Human-like A.I. is still some way off, early investor in Google’s DeepMind says

We are nonetheless a way off reaching human-level synthetic intelligence regardless of fast advances within the expertise, in keeping with an early investor in analysis laboratory DeepMind.

“In terms of artificial general intelligence, OpenAI, ChatGPT stuff: it’s like saying we’re going to jump to the moon,” Humayun Sheikh, a founding investor in AI startup DeepMind, which is now owned by Google, advised CNBC in an interview.

“We took a big jump, but we’re not at the moon yet.”

Sheikh, who held round 1.3% of DeepMind’s shares in 2011, stated that giant language fashions (LLM) like these developed by Microsoft-backed agency OpenAI, although spectacular, are lightyears away from so-called synthetic common intelligence, or AGI.

AGI is also known as the holy grail of AI. It is a hypothetical system able to finishing any activity to the identical stage as a human.

“That’s really how I compare AGI with all the large language model companies which are popping up,” Humayun, who’s now co-founder of AI and blockchain startup Fetch.ai, stated.

“They are very limited. How you actually get them to do certain things is still in its infancy.”

“This is very much: Google is not born yet, but Yahoo is,” he added.

His feedback come as Google-parent Alphabet merges DeepMind with Google Brain, a part of the U.S. web large’s analysis division.

Google is racing to compete with Microsoft and different tech firms within the area of AI. Microsoft is making big strides with its funding into OpenAI and the inclusion of the agency’s LLM expertise into its Bing browser and different merchandise.

Earlier this week, Demis Hassabis, the founding father of DeepMind, advised the Wall Street Journal that some type of AGI may be potential “in the next few years.”

Sheikh stated he had a “lot of respect” for Hassabis and that the entrepreneur is “very aware of the ethics of AI.”

“One of the first things he has been always bringing out was, how do we control it? How do we put that boundary around it and make sure AI doesn’t go out of control?,” Sheikh stated.

Google acquired DeepMind for $500 million in 2014 and is trying to bolster its business by doubling down on AI in a bid to fend off the menace to its core search unit from OpenAI. Google launched its personal chatbot different to ChatGPT, Bard, in March.

AI’s big potential is seen in its capacity to generate completely new content material from person prompts. People have used the expertise to create all the pieces from poems to quirky photos and film trailers, whereas children are utilizing it to assist with their homework.

Experts have raised concern over the dangers of refined AI, nevertheless, with a bunch of tech leaders together with Elon Musk and Steve Wozniak calling for a six-month ban on the event of AI extra superior than GPT-4, the most recent model of OpenAI’s huge language processing software program.

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