ClaimsDemis Hassabis

“You can think of half our effort as having to do with scaling and half our efforts having to do with inventing the next architectures and the next algorithms that will be needed”

Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind 28 February 2024 Demis Hassabis — Scaling, superhuman AIs, AlphaZero atop LLMs, AlphaFold (Dwarkesh Podcast)

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Google DeepMind devotes about half its effort to scaling and half to inventing next architectures and algorithms.

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Internal effort allocation is only known to the company.

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Demis Hassabis, “Google DeepMind devotes about half its effort to scaling and half to inventing next architectures and algorithms.” (said 28 February 2024). Verdict: own records only. Reliability API, claim c_154e8d3e5163, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_154e8d3e5163

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