2023-10-26
44 分钟Okay, today I have the pleasure of interviewing Shane Lake,
who is a founder and the chief AGI scientist of Google DeepMind.
Shane, welcome to the podcast.
Thank you.
It's a pleasure being here.
So first question, how do we measure progress towards AGI concretely?
So we have these loss numbers and we can see how the loss improves from one model to another,
but it's just a number.
How do we interpret this?
How do we see how much progress we're actually making?
That's a hard question, actually.
AGI, by its definition, is about generality.
So it's not about doing a specific thing.
It's much easier to measure performance when you have a very specific thing in mind
because you can construct a test around that.
Well, maybe I should first of all explain what do I mean by AGI?
Because there are a few different notions around.
When I say AGI,
I mean a machine that can do the sorts of cognitive things that people can typically do,
possibly more.