[killerstorm]

AlphaEvolve is a general system which works in many domains. How is that not a step towards general intelligence?

And it is effectively a loop around LLM.

But my point is that we have evidence that Demis Hassabis knows his shit. Just doubting him on a general vibe is not smart

[HarHarVeryFunny]

AlphaEvolve is a system for evolving symbolic computer programs.

Not everything that DeepMind works on (such as AlphaGo, AlphaFold) are directly, or even indirectly, part of a push towards AGI. They seem to genuinely want to accelerate scientific research, and for Hassabis personally this seems to be his primary goal, and might have remained his only goal if Google hadn't merged Google Brain with DeepMind and forced more of a product/profit focus.

DeepMind do appear to be defining, and approaching, "AGI" differently that the rest of the pack who are LLM-scaling true believers, but exactly what their vision is for an AGI architecture, at varying timescales, remains to be seen.

[Apocryphon]

Has he, his team, or DeepMind used any AGI rhetoric, even just as advertising?

[hearsathought]

Hassabi has talked about AGI in a lot of interviews. So has members of his Deepmind team. And of course current and former alphabet employees - the most prominent being schmidt. He definitely thinks it is coming and said we should prepare for it. Just search for his interviews on AI and you'll get a bunch of them.

[killerstorm]

This entire thread: people who are too lazy to read basic info about AI companies but have an opinion about "AGI rhetoric".

What do you think OpenAI was founded in a response to?

[Apocryphon]

Musk’s wild-eyed AGI visions and hysteria towards the sober-minded, research-focused efforts of DeepMind / Demis Hassabis?