The transformative potential of AGI — and when it might arrive | Shane Legg and Chris Anderson

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🗓️ 12 December 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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As the cofounder of Google DeepMind, Shane Legg is driving one of the greatest transformations in history: the development of artificial general intelligence (AGI). He envisions a system with human-like intelligence that would be exponentially smarter than today's AI, with limitless possibilities and applications. In conversation with head of TED Chris Anderson, Legg explores the evolution of AGI, what the world might look like when it arrives — and how to ensure it's built safely and ethically.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
0:02.0	Audio Collective.
0:04.0	You're listening to Ted Talks Daily.
0:10.0	I'm your host, Elise Hugh.
0:13.1	Today, a conversation with the co-founder of Google Deep Mine, Shane Leg.
0:17.8	He's credited with coining the term artificial general intelligence.
0:21.8	What is it exactly?
0:23.2	He sits down with head of Ted Chris Anderson for a conversation recorded at Ted AI in
0:28.1	2023.
0:29.6	They talk about the evolution of AGI, all its capabilities, and what we need to be thinking about as a very powerful
0:36.2	new intelligence is poised to come into reality, potentially by the end of the decade after the
0:42.1	break.
0:44.0	Hey, it's Adam Grant, host of the TED Podcast to Work Life.
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0:51.0	Stay tuned for a story about Cohen, a gifted storyteller dedicated to preserving cultural
0:56.7	legacies.
0:57.7	Shane, give us a snapshot of you growing up and what on earth led you to get interested in artificial intelligence?
1:04.4	Right, well I got my first home computer in my tenth birthday and this was before the internet
1:12.2	and everything so you know you couldn't just go and
1:14.6	surf the web and so on you had to actually make stuff yourself and program and so I I started programming and I discovered that
1:21.5	In in this computer there was a world.
1:23.5	I could create a world, I could create little agents that would run around and chase each
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